It’s week #11 and last week I had the most players yet: four! So I’m thinking starting this weekly poetry prompt wasn’t a big mistake.
But this week’s prompt will have you (and me) writing about something that was a big mistake. The prompt words are pizzazz, ruby slippers, old barn, picnic basket, quarry, Sisyphus’s boulder, and Milky Way.
Your challenge, should you bravely accept it, is to write a poem that does not include the word mistake—find a good synonym instead. Then use at least three of the paint chip words—to use fewer would be a great gaffe.
Here’s my poem:
Blunders and Omissions
If I had ruby slippers
I think that I would know
Unlike delusional Dorothy
That they would make me grow
Oh wait, or was that Alice
Whose wicker basket held
A piece of muddled cake
That offered a growth spell
Oh no, that was Boo Boo
Who had a picnic basket
That Yogi wanted to eat
Or else he’d blow a gasket
Which reminds me of the quarry
Where Sisyphus’s boulder
Became his greatest blunder
As he pushed it with his shoulder
Oh what a silly poem this is
I was going for pizzazz
But ended up with confusion
And all that jazz
Your Turn
So what’s your plan? Will you go serious or silly? Will come up with blunders and bungles, or maybe go the opposite direction and write about no big mistake at all?
Post your poem in the comments, or post it on your blog and link to it in the comments. Either way, please play along.