May 29, 2007

• Mosaic Writing Challenge

  I don’t write many mosaic poems, but I wrote one last night.  A mosaic is where you piece together one whole thought or theme based on short vignettes or stanzas.  The mosaic form can also be used for essays and short stories.  Anyway, LOL, end of your English lesson!  Here is my mosaic…

  Games with my Mother

  Sorry

  Soothing clucks emit soft and low
  trembling her bosom as my
  tears fall.  Her hands flutter,
  wings of a mother hen,
  as my plastic soldiers return home.

  War

  The tedium stirs in my legs
  as they kick and swing beneath the table.
  Impatient sighs fall like grenades
  wreaking havoc on Mother’s nerves.
  Cards are flung, the last War we play.

  Monopoly

  I press the iron on the cardboard,
  scrutinize the rainbow of money.
  Railroads are more interesting than property
  and I still cry when I lose.
  Clearly, no future Me in real estate.

  Scrabble

  I have found my crack cocaine
  as my mind smokes words
  like zineb (a pesticide.)
  I dream of dictionaries
  and double, triple scores.

  Small Talk

  When we grow tired of games
  like “Who is the Worst Daughter”
  or “My Mother is so Crazy”
  we slip out a new bored
  and chat on dancing with the stars.

  • 10:26 pm
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