NaPoMo Dickinsonian Oracle and Writing Exercise #27
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 hammers away:
To fill a Gap
Insert the Thing that caused it -
Block it up
With Other - and 'twill yawn the more -
You cannot solder an Abyss
With Air -
(E. Dickinson, 647)
And the writing commandment commands:
Write an instruction poem with the working title "Insert the thing that caused it," neither mentioning what the thing is nor what "it" is...
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 hammers away:
To fill a Gap
Insert the Thing that caused it -
Block it up
With Other - and 'twill yawn the more -
You cannot solder an Abyss
With Air -
(E. Dickinson, 647)
And the writing commandment commands:
Write an instruction poem with the working title "Insert the thing that caused it," neither mentioning what the thing is nor what "it" is...
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