National Poem Writing Month 2018 Day#27: Today,
following Lauren Hunter’s practice of relying on tarot cards to generate ideas for poems, we challenge you to pick a card (any card), and then to write a poem inspired either by the card or by the images or ideas that are associated with it.
My selection is Number 9 card of Hermit
every night
my soul ache
to talk to someone to let the poison out to burn the poems
and to warm my hand in that fire
madness you can say
as the idea stands at the threshold
I show the light coming from it to be forecast on the wall of my room
atonement
I feel when the words get arrested
in the pages
giving birth to a poem just a poem, nothing else
looking inside I find me in a robe holding the lantern
flame is the poem
poem that’s just arrangement of words nothing else
Brilliant!
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awesome lines!!
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Congratulations.
You picked the same major arcanum featured inside cover of Led Zep IV.
Did you already know?
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Oh…I was unaware of this…I actually used this because this classic card design inspired me the write the poem…thanks for stopping by…
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