NaPoWriMo #6: Through my window

Day 6's prompt is to write what you see outside your window. Here is my lousy poem. I wish there were a hunky bloke out there. Perhaps I can write like Shakespeare when I see one?

Through My Window
Birds chirp like
a composer
and trees rustle
in the wind
and dance
to a mellifluous song.
Clouds swim in the cerulean pool,
creating its own art.
A middle-aged man,
in faded shirt is
cleaning the rain gutters
and downspouts
(I wish he were my distant wonder-wall
or Nico Mirallegro),
while I am looking
through my window,
like a distressed princess
confined in a tower,
and composing a poem
instead of writing
my never-ending
thesis.

-Nuruljannah-

Day 5:The Golden Shovel

I used these ending words from Thom Gunn and Edna St. Vincent Millay's poems to compose my poem. Here are their poems:

Jamesian
Their relationship consisted
In discussing if it existed.

-Thom Gunn

First Fig
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!

-Edna St. Vincent Millay

And here's mine:

True Love
True love is consisted
of Divine Light, it existed
in the purest soul, no ends
and it gleams in the darkest night
Like loyal friends
It emanates the brightest light.
-Nuruljannah-

NaPoWriMo #4:Peace

Day four's prompt is to write a lune, an English language variation on the haiku. I'm going to follow the version developed by Jack Collum that consists of three-line stanza, 3-5-3 format. Here goes:

Peace wraps me

like a lost lover, when

I feel You.

-Nuruljannah-

NaPoWriMo # 3:A Charm against Writer's block

Day 3 NaPoWriMo: The prompt for day 3 is to write a charm poetry. Here goes:

A Charm against Writer's Block

Those skylarks fly,

In the cerulean sky,

Smell the fresh grass,

And play the brass,

Let the ideas flow

Let the stars glow.

-Nuruljannah-

NaPoWriMo #2: The Devious Amanojaku

For day 2, the prompt is to write a poem based on a non-Greco-Roman myth. Here goes:

The Devious Amanojaku 
No one can hear
these malevolent
voices
and see the glint of its
spiteful eyes
if we let it conquer
our fickle heart.

It is fed on our greed,
our selfishness,
our destruction.
Some of us blame it
for our nefariousness,
condemn it
for our vile actions
without realizing
we let it become
our beating heart.
-Nuruljannah-

P.S. Amanojaku is "a demon-like creature in Japanese folklore. It is usually depicted as a kind of small oni, and is thought to be able to provoke a person's darkest desires and thus instigate him into perpetrating wicked deeds" (Wikipedia).

NaPoWriMo #1: Forget it, and don’t ask about the rest—nor for whom—

Oh, shoot!An ekphrastic poem is actually for the early-birds and I thought it was for the first day of NaPoWriMo. My,bad! I'm going to write a poem anyway based on the given prompt. We have to go to Reb Livingston’s Bibliomancy Oracle and compose a poem based on that quotation. I hope I'm not too late. Here goes:

"Forget it, and don’t ask about the rest—nor for whom—"

Perhaps, we are meant to taste these tears,

and take the wrong routes,

sometimes, it's cul-de-sac.

Sometimes, we encounter into people

who gnaw on our

soul,

most of the time,

we listen to the inevitable music

of heartbreaks.

Sometimes, we are shrouded

by hopelessness,

sometimes our dreams are ground into dust

and our efforts

flowing in the drain,

sometimes, we tend to doubt

the Wisest One,

"Forget it, and don’t ask about the rest—nor for whom—"

don't ask but to endure

as every despondency or catastrophe

will shed your unwanted layers

 and unveil the invaluable gold.

-Nuruljannah-

P.S. I got this excerpt "Forget it, and don’t ask about the rest—nor for whom—"

from “Don’t Ask” by Alexander Xaver Gwerder (translated by Marc Vincenz).

NaPoWriMo: Mindscape

Yeah, I know I've to focus on my thesis but I've to exercise my creativity and let my imagination roam freely, aite? One of my panaceas for distress is indeed composing  crappy poems. So, I decided to join NaPoWriMo (www.napowrimo.net).What's NaPoWriMo? It's National Poetry Writing Month. Woot!

Since I was born in April, I'm really thrilled NaPoWriMo is celebrated this month. Well, I will be more thrilled if there were NaTheWriMo (National Thesis Writing Month) so I could finish my thesis for a month. Yeah, right.

Okay, let's get back to business, shall we? This is my first NaPoWriMo poem for this month entitled "Mindscape". That title is actually based on one of Latiff Mohidin's paintings, a prominent Malaysian artist. Our prompt for today is to write an ekphrastic poem, a poem inspired by a work of art. Since I'm Malaysian, that's why I chose his painting. Here goes:

                             

 Mindscape
Can you see a galaxy
in my mind?
Oh, how beautiful
those stars bind!
Scintillating like a beacon,
where there is a flying chicken
dancing through the starlight
with an enormous delight.
With no impossibility
as a boundary,
no noises or
malicious voices,
your mind can be free
to create its own galaxy.

-Nuruljannah-