I had a long load out yesterday, and a travel day today, so not a lot of time. And yet, the prompt today somehow spoke to me. The prompt from NaPoWriMo.net was:
And now for our optional prompt. If you’ve been paying attention to pop-music news over the past couple of weeks, you may know that Taylor Swift has released a new double album titled “The Tortured Poets Department.” In recognition of this occasion, Merriam-Webster put together a list of ten words from Taylor Swift songs. We hope you don’t find this too torturous yourself, but we’d like to challenge you to select one these words, and write a poem that uses the word as its title.
I chose “Albatross”
Albatross You are not You are not an albatross You are full of vague Untapped memories Jiggling together Small and large Tiny portraits of time You are not An albatross Tucked away With the unfinished scripts And scores of poems Of the false start genre You are not an albatross No winged, webbed footed Flight of fancy Rather a rattle in my Sojourning soul A glint of things to come Nestled in the desk drawer An albatross? No. You are a promise My box of Canadian coins
