Tuesday, April 13, 2010

NaPoWriMo #14 - Home

National Poetry Month Prompt #14 (From ReadWritePoem) - You want me to write 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.)

Home

We sat beneath the willow tree--while clouds drift slowly by,

You pledged your undying love to me --inviting magical thinking

Forever and ever; eternity--and tempting daylight dreams,

A welcome rest; tranquility--breathe deeply…

From violent tempest to calming sea--let peace surround you.

It was your love that saved me--you’re safely home.


©Bridget Nutting, 2010

3 comments:

Stan Ski said...

That was good, but the form confuses me- I prefer things to be in series rather than in parallel.

Robin said...

Well done! I think you got some good stuff in there!

Rallentanda said...

Yes,you nailed it!