Monday, June 17, 2019

#DaffyCrappyRhymingDraftThrowDown

My dear friend and talented MoJo Writer Woman critique partner Pam Courtney came up with a fun writers' challenge for those of us who are "rhyme-impaired." That's me, straight, no chaser! It had to be a first draft and you know what we call those . . . right?

So here are the rules and my "poem" of sorts.


Rules 
Storyteller Academy's #DaffyCrappyRhymingDraftThrowDown is underway. Everyone is invited to join in on the fun. Newbies to pb rhyming are STRONGLY encouraged to participate .This writing sprint extravaganza goes from June 1st to July 6th. Here's what'cha do:
Choose a writing prompt: All Things Ninja, That's When I Noticed It, Something Wasn't Quite Right, When the Sun Shines, or I Didn't want To . . . 
Post completed 200 word crappy draft on your blog. Link it back here ONLY on this thread for eager SA readers of your masterpiece.



Rhyme Time: The Meta Poem

by Kathy Halsey


I didn’t want to write this poem because . . .
I don’t rhyme naturally so . . .
naturally I knew that
somehow  
something 
wasn’t
quite
right.

I tried to write it right.
I tried the William Carlos Williams route but . . .
I had no plums or icebox and there was . . . 
nothing 
delicious or
sweet or
cold 
about this poem that I tried to write.

That’s when I noticed a new idea that snuck stealthily
into my mind. It whispered . . .
“All things ninja.”
It wanted to fight me
right 
            down 
                        to
                                    the
                                                last
                                                            word!
Absurd? 
No! 
It was quite e e cummings-like.

When the sun shines or
the clouds shroud 
my words
I carry on with this Herculean task.
I carry them on my back 
with a slant rhyme.

I let them know, I’m doing fine because . . .
I did not decline
 to rhyme; rather
I had to find 
the words that spoke to me 
and maybe now to you.
The prompts prompted me, 
gave me clues to 
share a silly,
willy-nilly
slappy,
crappy, 
drafty draft. 
(I must be daft!)