Refrigerator (magnetic poetry)

[vaneramos]

Today's challenge from NaPoWriMo was to compose "a poem that addresses itself or some aspect of itself."

I have a lot of magnetic poetry. It covers most of one side of the refrigerator. Removing it has become a necessary, tedious ritual whenever I move homes, which has happened four times with this increasingly large collection. When we moved just three weeks ago, I took time to arrange the magnets more usefully by parts of speech. I thought this would make it easier. But although I like writing poetry this way, and although I'm writing a poem every day for National Poetry Month, it just wasn't happening.

Until today's challenge. I knew immediately which aspect of a poem I wanted to address. I went to the refrigerator...

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[blue-by-you.livejournal.com]

I love this.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

poem NaPoWriMo day 15

[(Anonymous)]

Wonderful!

Re: poem NaPoWriMo day 15

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[(Anonymous)]

Love this poem. I like to imagine you playing with the words, words that you chose beforehand and then arranged and rearranged and could go back to. The fridge metaphors work well. Good job.From Maz at gramswisewords.blogspot.com

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Maz. Your imagination is accurate. When writing magnetic poetry I typically graze the words, picking those that speak to me in the moment, rather than having any particular image or idea in my head. Then it becomes a puzzle. This one started differently. Due to the prompt, I wanted to address the refrigerator, a word I don't recall having used before.

I like using restraints/limitations when I write. The fridge magnets limit my vocabulary. I like how this makes me focus on their look, sound and individual meaning, forcing me to set aside the usual abstractions and complex ideas -- which can be useful, but can also hobble creativity.

Congrats on being featured.

[(Anonymous)]

Great job taking a creative approach to the prompt!

Re: Congrats on being featured.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Wow, thank you!

Must try!

[(Anonymous)]

Must try -- so much fun! Thanks for the idea. EH Boquet (AKA oakstoacorns.blogspot.ch)

awesome!

[heidi helmer (from livejournal.com)]

I love your post! This is such a clever use of the prompt. And now I really want to go get one of those kits. Congrats on being the featured artist for day 16!

Re: awesome!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much. Magnetic poetry is a lot of fun.