April 2016 Poetry A Day: Week 5/5

It's the final week of the Poetry A Day Challenge!  My thoughts on the challenge will be given after this weeks prompts.  Speaking of prompts, 2016 April PAD Challenge: Day 25 prompted for us to write a poem about exercise.  My first thought was the emphasis on health and exercising for that, but there are so many types of exercise, that suddenly I was trying to figure out which type I wanted to write about.

EXERCISE

enveloping so much

from drills to runs to writing

each has its own type

The military uses exercise

to help get the recruits in shape

Known as drills or just trying to be killed

There are writing exercises

like following prompts

or mapping out a story

Exercising rights

is another concept

that has come under fire

Of course, Tuesday is double-prompt day.  This time we received the prompt to write a love or anti-love poem.  I had to double check, and yes, it's 2016 April PAD Challenge: Day 26.  If you remember in my Future of April 2016 post, we did a similar one as a warm-up for the PAD challenge.

Against most anything

Not caring for emotion

Telling themselves it's not real

Intelligence is more than heart

Loyalty reigns supreme

Ongoing even when their being a bastard

Veering thanks to their heart

Ever willing for some emotion.

I know it's a bit of a strange acrostic poem, but it works for me.  I'm just not sure on how to title it.

So the 27th was Administrative Assistant Day.  I think this was a more PC (politically correct) term for National Secretary's Day, but I'm just as likely wrong.  So for all the administrative assistants out there, thank you for the jobs that you do.  The prompt for the day was not exactly based around it being Administrative Assistants Day.  No, the prompt for 2016 April PAD Challenge: Day 27 was to write a take off poem.

TAKE OFF

I wished to live off grid

to be as independent as I could

Life just wasn't willing

and Fate agreed with her

I tried to distance myself

to cut off ties of old

but Life just wasn't willing

and Fate agreed with her

So I let them carry me

with Destiny's aid

to where they wished me to be

and not where I truly yearned

For I wished to take off

disappear in the distance

Fate and Life and Destiny

they had different plans

They chose to inundate me

with friends and family

who could freely leave

while I stayed stationary

I think he really likes those poems where there's a blank for a person to finish the title because the prompt for 2016 April PAD Challenge: Day 28 was "Important ___________".  So here's my attempt at it.

IMPORTANT DECISIONS

there comes a time

in every life

when a decision

must be made

it may be big

it may be small

but to be made

must be done.

They are important

no matter the size

decisions to be made

in every life

Two more days, two more poems.  I don't know why, but it's a bit bittersweet.  Will I keep writing poems after this?  Sure, but only as the muse strikes me.  I'm very much a spontaneous writer.  I tend to be a pantser in NaNoWriMo events.  That's why the prompt for 2016 April PAD Challenge: Day 29 made me smile.  The prompt was to write a haphazard poem.

HAPHAZARD WRITING

For most

planning takes precedence

For me however

it's just too much

Too take things away

and when i wish

this is my plan

for every event

i write as i wish

i play, eat or work

it's makes no difference

it just seems right

so take your outlines

calendars and lists

and burn them in bonfire

of failed plot bunnies and trysts

i'll write as i see fit and

enjoy the results

if someone else likes them, great

if not that's not why i write anyway

This brought us to the final day of the PAD challenge.  It's nice to know that even if I didn't write each one on the day they were posted, I've written thirty different poems in a month.  2016 April PAD Challenge: Day 30 gave us our final prompt.  As is fitting for the end of a poeming event,  the day's prompt was to write a dead end poem.

DEAD END POEM

they said it was easy.

they claimed it would flow

if you just sit  down and write

the words would make themselves known

it didn't work the way they said

it refused to flow as they claimed

i tried to sit down and write

the words refused to reveal themselves

Then suddenly it changed

the words, they came

the poem flowed

even if it wasn't in a poetic form

the words stopped as suddenly as they came

the poem isn't never ending

whether it's good or bad

it hit its own dead end

So there's the last of my PAD poems.  Hope you enjoyed at least one or two out of the thirty I managed to write out.  Was it easy?  I personally don't think any kind of writing is easy, but it was fun.  I wasn't sure I could do the poems daily, but I tried.  I didn't write a poem a day, but I did write thirty poems which would have been a poem a day.  I enjoyed writing them even if they didn't always flow.

How about you?  Did you enjoy one of my poems?  Did you have suggestions for untitled poems?  How about going through the links to read other poets works?  Did you do so, and if so did you find one you liked?  Did you participate?  If so, did you enjoy writing them?  Leave your answers in the comments.