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The Cruellest Month

by Cappucine

Rated: XGC · Book · Other · #1762136

A poem a day in April

April is the cruellest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.

TS Eliot

This book: a poem a day in April, following Katya's prompts below:

April 1—personal folly (something really stupid or silly you can admit to in a poem)
April 2—slatternly tendencies
April 3—group dreaming (Google Inception (a film) or Jung/Jungian archetypes in dreams)
April 4—back-to-work
April 5—Tuesday Weld
April 6—hedgehogs in the wild or as pets
April 7—Thor, Norse god of thunder
April 8—the need for wine or beer
April 9—significance of the number nine
April 10—art by women, women painters in history or now
April 11—Blue Monday
April 12—the terrible twos…
April 13—the theme of “supposed to”
April 14—thunder and lightning
April 15—your take on taxation this year
April 16—being quiet
April 17-- free-choice or take a field trip somewhere and respond to that in a poem
April 18—you’ve got to be kidding!
April 19—well gone dry
April 20—hump of the week
April 21—justice or a gavel
April 22—freedom, free with purchase, or other irony of the word “free”
April 23—Shakespeare’s birthday
April 24—Easter
April 25—cruelest month
April 26—April showers, May flowers (but no actual clichés) (maybe a ghazal!)
April 27—exhaustion
April 28—train ride
April 29—haiku or very tiny poem
April 30—books or beyond them, or Buzz Lightyear (“To infinity, and beyond!”)

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

NOVAcatmando

May 1, 2011 at 12:39pm
In response to "A Book in Seven Metaphors"

Terrific metaphors... I like the last one in particular...

great work this month... you have plenty to choose from for revision and submission

alfred booth, wanbli ska

May 1, 2011 at 5:59am
In response to "Pinkest of Flowers"

Love the poem. I like the constant colored visuals, and the secret offering paired in the opening and closing couplets.

alfred booth, wanbli ska

May 1, 2011 at 5:56am
In response to "Exhausted Like Me"

Oh, the end-of-day, bitter, overbrewed syrup the poor pot coughs up for those still needing the anti-pink elephant fix!

alfred booth, wanbli ska

May 1, 2011 at 5:52am
In response to "All Stations to Museum Via Town Hall"

HOW FUN! This is so original!

I love the visuals, but would have written "golden arches" when appropriate.

alfred booth, wanbli ska

May 1, 2011 at 5:52am
In response to "All Stations to Museum Via Town Hall"

HOW FUN! This is so original!

I love the visuals, but would have written "golden arches" when appropriate.

alfred booth, wanbli ska

May 1, 2011 at 5:48am
In response to "Tony Joe White - a theft"

Don't know if there are references I missed, because Polk Salad Annie and Tony Joe White mean nothing to me.

That being said, the image of the alligator eating an Annie salad is very strong indeed!

alfred booth, wanbli ska

May 1, 2011 at 5:10am
In response to "A Book in Seven Metaphors"

I like best the raven and the friend. You've great powers of observation!

Cappucine

May 1, 2011 at 3:37am
In response to "A Book in Seven Metaphors"

Thank you kindly. It was a fun exercise, writing that.

Harlow Flick, Right Fielder

Apr 30, 2011 at 10:20am
In response to "A Book in Seven Metaphors"

I like this a lot. Each couplet works. They should hang it in the libraries. I wish I had written it. (In fact, maybe I will tell people that I wrote it.)

Harlow Flick, Right Fielder

Apr 29, 2011 at 10:48pm
In response to "Pinkest of Flowers"

You do these things without forced rhymes. Clever throughout. I like the poppies and the dirty parts the best.

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