Monday, April 24, 2006

NaPoMo Dickinsonian Oracle and Writing Exercise #24

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 pulls out the stops:

Best Things dwell out of Sight
The Pearl - the Just - Our Thought -

Most shun the Public Air
Legitimate, and Rare -

The Capsule of the Wind
The Capsule of the Mind

Exhibit here, as doth a Burr -
Germ's Germ be where?
(E. Dickinson, 1012)

You gotta love the oracle. And the writing commandment:

Write a poem in short couplets, telling where your best things dwell. Title your poem, "Capsule."

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