I have written
many poems
about you
on my blog
and which
you were probably
thinking
is not cool
Forgive me
they were fantasy
so sweet
and so irresistible.
Bulletin board in Nantucket
NaPoWriMo Day 8! I am waay behind again this year, partially because I feel like I lost my muse. Anyway, today’s prompt was to rewrite a famous poem. I chose to rewrite one of my very favorite poems, by William Carlos Williams, which you can read below:
I have eaten
the plums
that were
in the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
Lupita Eyde-Tucker is a bilingual poet and translator raised in New Jersey and Guayaquil, Ecuador. She is the winner of the 2021 Unbound Book Festival Emerging Poet Award, the 2019 Betty Gabehart Prize, and in 2018 was selected as an AWP Writer to Writer Mentee by poet Maggie Smith. In 2022 her poetry manuscript, "Eucalyptus," was a finalist for the Andrés Montoya Prize from Letras Latinas. The manuscript explores her Sephardic Jewish ancestry and bi-cultural heritage.
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so sweet and simple. I used his poem for the golden shovel prompt…which was not so simple!
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You are braver than I am, angie. The Golden Shovel seemed to hard for me. This was was easy … glad you liked it!
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if stupid is another name for brave, then yes, that’s me!
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no, no, not at all! 🙂
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jk, lol, and all that other crap we say to get our point across. Thanks, Lupita.
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Reblogged this on Rooktopia and commented:
I like how this poem uses the easily identifiable last two verses. Also, lovely poem overall. 🙂
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sweet
fragrance
of
forgiveness
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rewriting
twain
quotes …
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I used the same poem. Enjoyed this a lot.
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