So for a Tuesday Poetics at dVerse Poets Lisa / Li talks of getting Crafty.
Dictionary.com gives these 3 options as definitions of craftsmanship:
the art or skill of a craftsperson.
the quality of being well-crafted or well-built.
the product or result of skilled labor or craft.
Another site gives craft three meanings:
an object made with skill
a vehicle for traveling on water or through air
an individual who makes objects in a skilled way.
Your challenge today is to use one or more of the definitions of craft or craftspersonship that have been given and write a poem in any format or length you choose.
So I thought, then, to crafting Paper Airplanes and just kind of flew along for a bit.
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Paper Pilot
It started with a blank stories sheet
that began all
folded in half
the top bent in never quite matching tri corners
then
to a point
made about flight
and escaping into the sky
of mind
if only to try
and think why
not
where Pilot would sit
in thoughts of finding a breeze
maybe reserved for the kites
from a sprinting giggling hillside
with pretty painted wind flushed chests
and colorful tails
but no strings to hold this flight
Pilot just hoping
it might alight, soar on its own
before a new crumpled ball
added
in a quiet crashing pile
underneath
them all
till …
A folded blank sheet
new
from a fresh ream of paper
another that started
all stories
of flights
maybe this one
with newly engineered tale,
one of its own,
something folded extra aero
dynamic
might do the trick
of flight
this time
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