by Nathan Moore
We’ve got our raw material from part 1 of read write prompt #48, now it’s time to poem. I really want to make it clear that what we have here is a very rough draft of something. Your work now is to make a poem out of it. I made a rough stanza form and a few slight alterations for the sake of sense.
At this point you could go anywhere with it or let the words take you where they want you to go. Come Thursday you can leave us a link to your poem just like we always do in the comments of the Get Your Poem On post.
Also, you’ll see below that we’ve got another prompt up for folks to use if they want. It’s our first word prompt, and we’re calling the series “Read Write Word.” So scroll down and take a look at it.
Tatterdemalion slink across chrome alleys.
Villas deplete memories of sacred tablature.
Antiquated courtyards host tribal artifacts,
which nobody recognizes nowadays, remain
untouched. Yet civil guards scream obscenities.
Lost meditation resurfaces. I brilliant though
forgettable words tenuously scavenge jettison
[...] prompt has been updated with phase two! Nathan asked us to come up with some words, and now we see what they all are without having to scroll. [...]
[...] first Read Write Poem link is to the prompt’s announcement itself; the second posting is here, where Read Write Poem folks posted one word or more each and Nathan Moore strung the words together to create the jump-off point for this prompt. So, with [...]
[...] built a draft word by word. Everyone then revised this draft as they wished. The original draft is here at Read Write [...]