April 2016 Poetry A Day: Week 3/5

On Monday, a very wet Monday, though with it being spring I really should not be surprised, we entered the second trimester of this poem a day challenge.  Thankfully it was another prompt that leads to a large array of choices.  2016 April PAD Challenge: Day 11 gave us the prompt for a defensive poem.  It took me a lot of thought to put this one together.

Wanting to do more

Expecting to do more

Strategies in place

To hinder every step forward

Things change 

people move around

Accusations are made

Offense is the best Defense

With an old episode of Biggest Loser playing in the background, I finally managed to put some semblance of a poem together.

Once again Tuesday was a double prompt day.  2016 April PAD Challenge: Day 12 gave us the choice of either writing a serious poem or silly poem.  Of course a person can always choose to write two poems, one for each prompt.  This could be a bit of extra work or they could be combined like I did last week into one poem.  Here's my attempt for this particular challenge.

SERIOUS VS. SILLY

Sullen

Enamored with silence

Remaining unhumored

Intrigued to solve the mysteries

Only to be disappointed 

Until deciding to become

Something other than serious

Standing in circles

Intriguing moments of

Laughter and

Love

Yearning for continuous joy

Surprisingly, I knew the title before I even thought of what type of poem or how it would be worded.

Wednesday we were given another _______ poem.  This time it was "Last _________" for 2016 April PAD Challenge: Day 13.  After recently hearing Shinedown's Second Chance, the only thing I could think of was "Last Chance"  which then made me think of a line from a different song, "this is the last night that you'll feel like this".  I can't remember the title or artist though...

LAST ATTEMPT

There comes a time

In every life

Where the liver decides

It's time to end

It could be their life

But more often than not 

it's just some thing

they've been trying for a while

they've approached it in various ways

Head-on, backwards, sideways

They've gotten tired of trying 

They've decided on their last attempt

They'll start something new

After this attempt

For now they feel

They're beating on a dead horse

Thursday was 2016 April PAD Challenge: Day 14.  We were challenged to write a "time-out" poem and I had to take a "time-out" from poeming thanks to real life(RL) obligations.  So, now as I'm going back to finish out the week's poems, I find it slightly ironic.  But anyway, here goes:

TIME-OUT

I need a break

from deadlines and try-outs

from work and even fun

Yes, I need a time-out

before the stress buries me

and I somehow destroy my own world

Friday marked the halfway point in this challenge and with real life having forced a break, I wasn't sure what to expect.  So, when I looked over 2016 April PAD Challenge: Day 15, I was pleasantly surprised.  We were given a list of eight words and challenged to use at least four.  Can you locate mine?

THE TARRASQUE TOOTH TRACKED

Challenged on a quest

I daren't blacklist

the king who made

such a lavish request

He dared us five to journey

in a vessel of rare design 

to lands unknown in search

for not some gaudy ring

Nor was it plans 

upon paper of poor design

It took us across many lands

both hilly and flat

No, this particular quest

took us to the den

of the very rare tarrasque

in search of a single solitary tooth!

Well, it's pretty simple to spot them, I think.

Yesterday's prompt was great for foodie poets.  2016 April PAD Challenge: Day 16 basically told us to go out and eat.  We were tempted to, that's for certain!  It was to write a poem either about or in a food establishment, though I think the main point is to write one about a food establishment.

Journeying out

for late night munchies

Nothing too it

or so we thought

It turned from a quick trip

to a complete sojourn

as we quickly realized

we were late to our favorite haunts

So we googled and gps-ed

our way to a late night meal

finally settling

at a nearby Jack-In-The-Box

I thought I did fairly well.  Don't have a title, though.  Any ideas?

Apparently today is National Haiku Day(I really need to start up a blog about the daily holidays...Or someone should, anyway!)  In honor of it, 2016 April PAD Challenge: Day 17 challenges us to write a haiku.  We can also choose to right a poem about haiku's, but I do enjoy writing in this particular format.   I know I wrote one in Future of April 2016, but I don't like repeating efforts if I can avoid it, so here's my latest haiku.

HAIKU

take a five word start

seven syllable center

and five sound ending

Turns out, I decided a haiku about haikus was in order!  Hope you enjoyed this week's attempts.  As always, make title suggestions in the comments!