We’re a week into the challenge now, and we get to celebrate with our first “Two-for-Tuesday” prompt! You can pick your favorite prompt, do both separately, or combine them into one poem. Your choice.
For today’s prompt:
Write a lucky poem and/or…
Write an unlucky poem.
Remember: These prompts are just springboards; you have the freedom to jump in any direction you want. In other words, it’s more important to write a new poem than to stick to the prompt.
— Robert Lee Brewer, Writer’s Digest
Gloom, despair …
When I was little, we used to watch Hee Haw every week,
sitting on the harvest gold velveteen couch:
mom, dad, two blond little girls in pigtails.
Roy Clark and the guys would drink their moonshine,
and sing
(and groan),
“Gloom, despair, and agony on me-e! (Woe!)
Deep dark depression, excessive misery-y! (Woe!)
If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all! (Woe!)
Gloom, despair, and agony on me-e-e!”
And then they’d tell a story,
one after the other,
of what it was that had them feeling so down,
with the last guy getting the punchline.
Looking back, I appreciate
that the memories I have
of this particular bastion of bad luck
are good ones, happy ones.
Gloom, despair,
and all was well.