Day 1 Prompt:
And without further ado, our daily prompt (optional, as always)! Sometimes, writing poetry is a matter of getting outside of your own head, and learning to see the world in a new way. To an extent, you have to “derange” yourself – make the world strange, and see it as a stranger might. To help you do that, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem inspired by this animated version of “Seductive Fantasy” by Sun Ra and his Arkestra. If you don’t feel after watching it a little bit like the top of your head’s been taken off, and your thoughts given a good stir – well, maybe you are already living in a state of heightened poetic awareness!
With it being April Fool's Day, I've tried to think about pranks made in the news on this day, alongside today's prompt. Here's the poem:
All mixed up and inside out
Spinning yarns and swirling words
Flying pigs and grounded birds
To play the fool and cheat the wise
To imagine, to wish, how the world could be
With waffle toasters or spaghetti trees
To wonder what our lives are for
Who wouldn't swap that which constrains
For coloured light shows in our brains
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