Too Close To Call
I’ve recently discovered the huge community of blogger-poets, many of whom make creative use of poetry prompts. Basically, inspirational poetry prompts are posted at a regular time and place, giving whoever chooses to use them a jumping off point for … whatever.
The prompt can be just about anything — a word or three or five, a photo, or even another poem. And it’s often fascinating to see where any given prompt takes twenty, thirty or even several dozen individual poets.
I tend to post the fruit of those prompts on my non-political humor blog. But my latest haiku, inspired by the prompt “closeness” is way too political to land anywhere but here. (Needless to say, my fellow poets took their verse in a rather less cynical direction.)
“It’s too close to call,”
When said of elections, means
“Close enough to steal.”
(If you’re interested in poetry prompts, here are some blogs that regularly post them: Blog Friday; Haiku: One Deep Breath; Inspire Me Thursday; Little Nibbler; Miss Rumphius Effect; Poefusion; Poetic Asides; Sunday Scribblings; Totally Optional Prompts; and Weekend Wordsmith.)
UPDATE: I’m now posting limerick and haiku prompts on a weekly basis on my other blog.
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October 22nd, 2007 at 5:35 am
Good take on the prompt though…
:)
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:47 am
Sadly, yes.
October 22nd, 2007 at 11:47 am
How true!
October 22nd, 2007 at 5:07 pm
It certainly fits!
October 22nd, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Oh, very true, that made a very sad, cynical snort of laughter rocket out of my nose. I like it. The verse, that is, not dictatorships.
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:08 pm
You speak all too true, I’m afraid! And it fits the prompt just fine; sadly, but fine.
October 22nd, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Thanks everyone!
October 23rd, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Right on!