Wednesday, April 19, 2006

NaPoMo Dickinsonian Oracle and Writing Exercise #19

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 announces:

When we stand on the tops of Things -
And like the Trees, look down,
The smoked all cleared away from it -
And mirrors on the scene -

Just laying light - no soul will wink
Except it have the flaw -
The Sound ones, like the Hills - shall stand -
No lightning, scares away -
(E. Dickinson, 343)

And the writing commandment:

Imagine a familiar setting. What does "having mirrors on the scene" do to that familiar setting, and to you "looking down" on that scene? Write an eerie little poem, won't you?

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