Tuesday, April 18, 2006

NaPoMo Dickinsonian Oracle and Writing Exercise #18

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 (just for fun. Maybe you'll get a decipherable answer).
(2) Read the oracle's pronouncement and writing commandment.
(3) Write a bit of poetry

The Dickinsonian oracle oraculates thusly and fully:

How noteless Men, and Pleiads, stand,
Until a sudden sky
Reveals the fact that One is rapt
Forever from the eye -

Members of the Invisible,
Existing, while we stare,
In Leagueless Opportunity,
O'retakeless, as the Air -

Why did'nt we detain Them?
The Heavans with a smile,
Sweep by our disappointed Heads,
Without a syllable
(E. Dickinson, 342)

And the writing commandment:
What if you were among the Members of the Invisible? What would you want to get away with, O Gyges, if you couldn't (or as Miss Dickinson might say, could'nt) be seen? Write a poetic confession, sticky fingers.

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