read write poem napowrimo #14
prompt by Nicole Nicholson you want me to write a what?
Nicole Nicholson has a big challenge for us on Day 14: Write a cleave poem. What’s a cleave poem, you ask? It’s three poems in one.
The whole idea works something like this (quoting the creator of the form, Dr. Phuoc-Tan Diep): “In its most basic form it is three poems: two parallel ‘vertical’ poems (left and right)…[with] a third ‘horizontal’ poem being the fusion of the vertical poems read together.” He goes on to say, “One of my aims was to examine how something can be more than the sum of its parts and can be 3 in 1: synergy, fusion, co-operation, dialectics, marriage, interdependence, teamwork and The Trinity.”
More info can be found at The Cleave (including samples) and at the “cleave” entry at Writing.com.
Happy writing! (Editor’s note: A good idea, for those who fear the cleave is too challenging: Try a short one or simply try a form you have never tried before.)
(Yikes! Well no pretense of any poetic quality today! It’s like having a crossword puzzle inside my head, all at once. Did I say yikes!)
Double Helix
the painted snake rolled up an arm why would you to do this to yourself?
curved under, beneath, filling every pore god spoke on the tv in simple terms
flicked its tongue like finding spice no, I mean sitting on the box
for a dollar more, there’s a knife that sure got everyone’s attention
it wraps around to double the point yet, no, he said, that’s not enough
dangerous to ignore I want you to remember this time
the message you meant to say where you’ll see it every day
don’t tread on a heart onto the forehead of each of you
what’s inside of me, like apple core live in peace, my peace
follow you home, live inside of you just as it already is
Neil Reid © April 2010
god and a snake… my tv would be so much more interesting if god was sittin on it … tho i would probably hafta turn it on… interesting message… peace… small portion cleave
Thank you Rosalyn. (Is that right?) (I’m falling behind again.)
Thank you for the comment here. Difficult prompt. I don’t juggle so well. I drop things. But a new experience, and that’s good certainly.
Well, god and the serpent, I thought it made a pair, even a trinity (if I were a better writer yet).
excellent concentration, made me think and re-read many times. Bravo!!!
Thank you. Kind of you J.D.
Brave soul you are!
good work!
Thanks Richelle!
Nice one Neil! I enjoyed reading all three.
Shari
Ha! Thank you Shari. Good to hear from you.
This was by far the hardest yet challenge for me to do. Felt like a crossword puzzle happening inside my head! (Honestly, not an all pleasant sense. I’m not good at those things.)
Maybe I’m just an old fashioned abstract sort of guy?!!
But thanks!
very well done…the sanke is a great image…
I am sadly behind on catching up to all the pieces done…but will try…
Thank you Rob! Glad you liked the little serpent here!
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