Saturday December 7th, 2019

The exercise:

Write a four line poem about: open.

Only three stanzas left after this one, believe it or not.

I choose not, by the way.

Mine:

Charlie unlocked the door with a shotgun blast
And entered with a snigger.
He stepped onto the middle of the bed, aimed
Straight down and pulled the trigger.

3 comments:

Greg said...

Well, the Master either got serious skin problems after that shotgun blast, or he wasn't there. I'm hoping for the latter, but in that case, I wonder who -- or what -- was? Mysteries, so close to the end!
Although, if you're refusing to believe there's only three stanzas to go, I guess you could go for a two-year long poem.... Personally, I think the one-year version was fun and I don't think I can stretch this tale for another 52 weeks :-D

Open
The seer sets down her final cards: an end-
-ing has been won. The Shadow swirls around
Her. “Open,” it commands, “the book of Luke.
The prophecies therein are met — or not?”

Greg said...

@Aya how fascinating! You've set yourself a real challenge here, to write a four-line poem in Arabic using only the text from URLs! Sadly my arabic is terrible, which is entirely my own fault for not having done better at learning Maltese so far, which is at least related to Arabic. However, I do appreciate the effort you make.
Now, I am a little puzzled though: the repetition of "cleaning" through is a clever motif, but how does it relate to "Open", which is of course the theme? I suppose the homes, houses and apartments you refer to must be entirely metaphorical, and since they're traditionally used to represent habitation, they must be the body in this case? So this poem is, unexpectedly, about cleaning the openings of the body? In Al-Qatif, if I understand it correctly, which presents... startling imagery.
But who am I to criticise? Obviously, bringing in classical religious allegory for a moment, only the pure and cleansed can be permitted to openly comment on your poem (I see what you've done there!) and so your poem is above reproach from us mere mortals outside Al-Qatif. I shall have to go and shrive myself a little ;-)

Marc said...

Greg - another... hell. No. This was plenty enough as it was.

Hmm, intriguing entry this close to the end. Curious to see how you wrap things up. Especially with my prompts attempting to not muck things up for you.

... and I see you've been playing with the spammers again. Glad you had fun, but I shall have to clean this one up as well :P