So at dVerse Poets this week Kim had an eye check-up for a new prescription and part of the check-up was to read from laminated test cards of different size fonts in sentences and below each of the sentences were sets of four words. She thought these sets of four words would make a cool poetics prompt.
And, thus, said prompt from Kim? To choose one or two sets of words and write a poem using them in the order in which they appear. There was a bit more possible to the prompt but I was good … thanks Kim.
Here are the sets of words:
(I chose the sets in bold)
nose – one – cause – even
were – crone – our – summer
name – use – means – arose
near – can – remove – sure
crow – verse – see – renew
assume – once- van – sum
aware – caves – sea – cream
The Crow & The Winter Witch
The crow walks as if his smart, stone counting, building stick were cigar
like Groucho
or cane for crone who invites him for company’s perch and old silly movies
in cold months
and caws crow joke verse for friends to hear
and see
in funny slide skip dance steps
on out warm window sills
that make old lonely
fairy tale’d spoke
bent magic’d women
laugh
and friends cackle
in wing’d giggle gaggle
flitting
fits away
while he lingers her equally bent house
in the winter wood
“our bent house”
he thinks
to while away until
Spring
then Summer
renew
her time to wait on lost children
in the wood
for new Grimm tales be writ
Frankenberry's Attic 
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