Sunday, April 16, 2006

NaPoMo Dickinsonian Oracle and Writing Exercise #16

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's rooster crow:

This dirty - little - Heart
Is freely mine -
I won it with a Bun -
A Freckled shrine -

But eligibly fair
To him who sees
The Visage of the Soul
And not the knees.
(E. Dickinson, 1378)

And the writing commandment:

Write a rule-breaking, twisted ode (though to break the ode rules you need to know something about the ode rules) about your own dirty little heart. How would that dirty little heart of yours answer the question you posed to the oracle?

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