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 14 Prompt
And last but not least, our (optional) prompt for the day. Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that delves into the meaning of your first or last name. Looking for inspiration? Take a look at this poem by Mark Wunderlich, appropriately titled “Wunderlich.”
Day 14 Poem
Forthright
We are the Sans Detour
Those who speak plainly
There is no nuance
That is obtuse
When our words are heard
We are understood
So let me speak gentle reader
Without any obfuscation
I came upon my name
Through the one who will remain nameless
What I have taken of him
Is simply the family name, crest
And I am learning to leave the rest
The need to be direct
And not mince my words
Comes from the lineage
That has been obscured
Where others put on airs
Or develop their character
I prefer to go straight for the jugular
Make my point
And then leave you my friend
Not to wonder at what I meant
Not ponder a greater message
You already have one hundred thousand channels
And there is truly nothing on
I reject the one who brought me into this world
But the name survives
The name that defines my identity
The name that I hated in ignorance
But with enlightenment now brings me hope
Now I have a touchstone
That can lad me like he
That can be the example
That can be the father
A name, not a man
So to you viewing these words
Or heeding my voice
Know that if I don’t try to color
The poetry that has given me purpose
It is not for lack of knowledge
Rather,
It is my lineage
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