Hello friend, I am Timothy Kimo Brien, head instigator at Create Art Podcast where we help you to tame the inner critic and create more than we consume. Every year in April National Poetry Writing Month occurs, this is a challenge to write 30 poems in 30 days and comes from the NaPoWriMo site. When you participate you are given a prompt every day for 30 days and you can choose to follow the prompt or not. Each prompt has a commentary with it and a style of poetry that you may not be familiar with. I enjoy it because it stretches my creative muscles and helps me organize my thoughts. I also really enjoy a good challenge. There is also an opportunity to read other people's work as they post on their websites and for you to comment on their work, giving them encouragement or offering a suggestion. Care to join me on this journey?
Day 13 Prompt
Today’s prompt comes from the Instagram account of Sundress Publications, which posts a writing prompt every day, all year long. This one is short and sweet: write a poem in the form of a news article you wish would come out tomorrow.
Day 13 Poem
What Tomorrow Brings
The morning mist had yet to dissipate
Luckily the paper delivery person
Had wrapped the Wednesday edition
So that only the plastic bad was damp
I bought it in for my wife to read
Later in the day
As I went to work in the basement
I could hear her wake up
And walk into the kitchen
Where I had left the paper opened
And ready to read
A few minutes later and a few emails ignored
I heard her quiet scream
She opened the door to the basement
And called down for me
Disturbed from my work
Disgruntled I relented and went up
She held the paper out to me
With her outstretched arms
Telling me to read the headline
Tomorrows news today
I asked her what was the fuss
It seemed to be a stunt, a bit odd
For a local paper
But then most of them still printed horoscopes
She kept pointing at the article
And would no say more
So I began reading it with disdain
As my work now was beginning to pile up
The byline had my name
Strange because I was not a reporter
I was not employed by the local rag
So I read further
Supposedly I wrote in better grammar than usual
That starting tomorrow
Which would be Thursday
I would be writing Fridays headlines
I would not be guessing at the future
Rather I would be the gate keeper
I promised what I wrote would happen
As I would be compiling the news Wednesday night
My wife looked into my eyes
Pleading for understanding
I laughed at her prank
And headed back to my den
She grabbed my shoulder and turned me round
And that’s when I confessed
That the work I was doing
Was not for the job
But because I found a way
To see two days ahead
But on the day I wrote about
I would forget the night before
We both decided since the public now knew
And tonight I would forget tomorrow
That we would up our subscription to daily
Just so I would know what happened yesterday
Or that day
Or tomorrow
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