The Most Feared Mistress

Today's prompt is ... well not possible for me to accomplish. As I've said plenty of times before, I don't write poetry very often (I am doing NaPoWriMo at the insistence of a friend), so I don't exactly have any scraps of poetic attempts laying around to use. So it's another off-prompt day.

The Most Feared Mistress

"The man was a fool."
I tell everyone, but
I'm only trying to convince myself.
I look out to the sea,
that cruel mistress who
stole my husband. The
salty air fills my lungs
with countless stories
of the blue.

Like many men, my husband
took to the sea for treasure.
He commandeered ships,
he fought the royal navy.
Or at least he did
in the stories he told.

But word came,
from a toothless cabin boy,
that he drowned with his ship
after a terrible storm.

But no more mourning,
no more tears!
I'll take to those sails,
under the black flag.
Then we'll see,
yes the sea,
who then is the most
feared mistress of all.

Lift

Today's prompt says to wait for the first thing we hear (other than the meaningless and mundane) after having read the prompt. It took a short bit for me to hear something appropriate, but it came when I was helping my dad with a job and was moving things on a dolly and doing it in a way that made it more worked than it needed to be. He corrected me in this, and it also sparked the idea for this poem.

Lift

Lift it up, just a bit,
when you're pushing
it around. That way
the weight stays balanced
rather than you
having to lift
all of it.

We can only do
so much in our lives.
But we can't just rush in
and have to do more work
because it's the first thing
we think of.
With a little forethought,
we can balance our lives,
between the good and the bad,
the ease and the difficulty,
and not have to work
so hard.

Stairs

Today's prompt calls for us to write a poem based on a quote. Unfortunatly, I'm in a rush to get this written in time, so I don't have time to search through other quotes, so I took a favorite one from my favorite webcomic.

Stairs

I told you this
would come to pass.
But you did not listen.
You went to the stairs,
I told you, man,
you went to the stairs,
your hands full
and you fell
      fell
         fell.
I'd hate to rub
your nose in it. But
I told you, man.
I told you about stairs!
And all you can say is,
"It keeps happening!"


_{-Lines used from MSPaint Adventures}

So Says I

An off topic day. I feel sick and can't really think of much beyond the simple.

So Says I

If you throw
a flower pot
to the ground;
all you've done
is killed the flower.


_{(this is why I don't write when ill. bluh)}

Pass the Pepper

Today's prompt is pretty simple. Just use one or more of those words in a poem. Easy. I used just one 'cause I'm tired and it's the first thing I thought of when I saw it.

Pass the Pepper

Pass the salt.
Pass the pepper.
The steak is gross,
the potatoes are bland.
The veggies taste
like they came from a can.
Eww, eww, eww.
Pass the salt.
Pass the pepper.

Committing to Failure

I interpreted today's prompt to being about flaws and failure. Not exactly a concept I'm unfamiliar with...

Committing to Failure

I thought I had it,
I thought I knew.
For months now,
I thought I was
in the clear.
But it came
to test my skill
and I failed.
Just as I had failed
so many more before.

The rules I managed
the rules I forgot.
My memory fades,
my confidence too.
In the end, I had
the rules wrong too.

So's more of the same
of my inability.

Power Penguin

Today's prompt has us writing a poem about a hero, present or childhood. My memory sucks, so I just did what I could~

Power Penguin

Up through the sky
he flies.
Here to save the day
from giant squids and
world-dominating jack-o-lanterns.
All he asks for
in return
is a nice fish dinner.
Carpy, his fishy side-kick,
is always there
to help. Even if he
has trouble breathing air.
Power Penguin knows
a hero never rests.
Power Penguin knows
a hero's job is never done.