NaPoMo Dickinsonian Oracle and Writing Exercise #14
In honor of National Poetry Month, and for those interested in its NaPoWriMo incarnation, Brightly is proud to bring to you the Dickinsonian Oracle's Oracular Writing Exercise.
Here is the NaPoWriMo DiOrOrWriEx procedure:
(1) Pose a question to the oracle.
(2) Read the oracle's pronouncement and writing commandment.
(3) Write a bit of poetry
The Dickinsonian oracle thus pronounces:
I felt a Cleaving in my Mind -
As if my Brain had split -
I tried to match it - Seam by Seam -
But could not make them fit -
The thought behind, I strove to join
Unto the thought before -
But Squence ravelled out of Sound -
Like Balls - opon a Floor -
(E. Dickinson, 867)
And the writing commandment.
Write a poem that identifies the thought (or sound or sight, etc.) that causes your mind to cleave. What domestic activity (e.g., dishwashing, lawn mowing, child soothing, pet petting) mends the cleft?
Here is the NaPoWriMo DiOrOrWriEx procedure:
(1) Pose a question to the oracle.
(2) Read the oracle's pronouncement and writing commandment.
(3) Write a bit of poetry
The Dickinsonian oracle thus pronounces:
I felt a Cleaving in my Mind -
As if my Brain had split -
I tried to match it - Seam by Seam -
But could not make them fit -
The thought behind, I strove to join
Unto the thought before -
But Squence ravelled out of Sound -
Like Balls - opon a Floor -
(E. Dickinson, 867)
And the writing commandment.
Write a poem that identifies the thought (or sound or sight, etc.) that causes your mind to cleave. What domestic activity (e.g., dishwashing, lawn mowing, child soothing, pet petting) mends the cleft?
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