04-19-2025, 07:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-19-2025, 08:46 PM by RiverNotch.)
Rules: Write a poem for national poetry month on the topic or form described. Each poem should appear as a separate reply to this thread. The goal is to, at the end of the month have written 30 poems for National Poetry Month.
This year, there are no form requirements, only "tiers" or "rankings" given informally to all participants:
Bronze Tier: Participate at least once.
Silver Tier: Participate all days.
Gold Tier: Participate all days, and have all entries be the same form or have all entries be different forms.
Christos anesti! Write a poem about temperance: the cardinal virtue, preferably, and not the inane political movement.
Out in the sand, with all the virtues of the flesh
perfected by a man as mortal as divine,
were also all the rest of nature so refined,
Edenic apple cores bestrown and soaked afresh.
By hunger we were fed, by dehydration sated,
by lack of shelter housed, by sleepless midnights rested:
by Spartan answers riddles Attican were bested
just as by banishment returned the long-awaited.
Thus if the brave by their prized Bravery could pile
feat upon feat at large abortive, even vile,
those of the duller virtue are yet more unstinting:
like to the Mali Mansa gold so ceased from glinting
that, in his pilgrimage, his alms were broadcast seed,
so the restrained are, of Restraint, the least in need.
This year, there are no form requirements, only "tiers" or "rankings" given informally to all participants:
Bronze Tier: Participate at least once.
Silver Tier: Participate all days.
Gold Tier: Participate all days, and have all entries be the same form or have all entries be different forms.
Christos anesti! Write a poem about temperance: the cardinal virtue, preferably, and not the inane political movement.
Out in the sand, with all the virtues of the flesh
perfected by a man as mortal as divine,
were also all the rest of nature so refined,
Edenic apple cores bestrown and soaked afresh.
By hunger we were fed, by dehydration sated,
by lack of shelter housed, by sleepless midnights rested:
by Spartan answers riddles Attican were bested
just as by banishment returned the long-awaited.
Thus if the brave by their prized Bravery could pile
feat upon feat at large abortive, even vile,
those of the duller virtue are yet more unstinting:
like to the Mali Mansa gold so ceased from glinting
that, in his pilgrimage, his alms were broadcast seed,
so the restrained are, of Restraint, the least in need.