Sunday, April 23, 2006

NaPoMo Dickinsonian Oracle and Writing Exercise #22 and #23

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 was tight-lipped yesterday. Today it murmurs:

I send Two Sunsets -
Day and I - in competition ran -
I finished Two - and several Stars -
While He - was making One -

His own was ampler - but as I -
Was saying to a friend -
Mine - is the more convenient
To Carry in the Hand -
(E. Dickinson, 557)

And the writing commandments:

#22
Write a love poem to the person to whom you'd like to give a sunset, but instead of a sunset, offer her or him whatever is indicated by the eleventh noun that follows "sunset" in your handy, dandy dictionary. Looks like I'll be offering a superblock (which, it seems, is an urban area of several acres, usually closed to traffic, having interrelated residences and industries along with commercial, social and recreational facilities) to my beloved. That'll knock her socks off.

#23
Take the poem you've just written, edit out every other line, and flip it. Offer it to your beloved.

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