Friday, April 21, 2006

NaPoMo Dickinsonian Oracle and Writing Exercise #21

Just nine more writing exercises left to go, then back to, well, whatever mess was here before April.

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 offers this lemon drop:

Delight's Despair at setting
Is that Delight is less
Than the sufficing Longing
That so impoverish.

Enchantment's Perihelion
Mistaken oft has been
For the Authentic orbit
Of it's Anterior Sun.
(E. Dickinson, 1375).

And the writing commandment:

Write a square poem, with one of these four words grounding each corner: delight, longing, enchantment, disillusion.

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