Monday, April 17, 2006

NaPoMo Dickinsonian Oracle and Writing Exercise #17

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 takes it on with this:

Trusty as the stars
Who quit their shining working
Prompt as when I lit them
In Genesis' new house,
Durable as dawn
Whose antiquated blossom
Makes a world's suspense
Perish and rejoice.
(E. Dickinson, 1415)

The writing commandment commands:

How "trusty" is something that quits? Write a poem of suspicion, of the detection of untrustworthiness. Then send it to the stars in your universe. That'll show 'em.

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