Coat of Convention (#NaPoWriMo Day 28) Two Poems to Go!

It feels so odd to have my prompt be the NaPoWriMo prompt at ReadWritePoem.org but it is and here is my poem (finally!) I wrote from a memory of intuition and so much came up when I started, I could have written several chapters in a book.

I narrowed it down a bit and came up with this:

Coat of Convention.

Round tipped shoes cover my toes

As I hover at the edge of the question,

Waiting with a thin coat of convention

Upon my upper lip and my brow

 

Unable to ask, but needing to

I hear my voice whisper, “God, do

You find my voice offensive?”

 

No surge of wind rushes in

No zephyr, no Sally, no plagues

Or locusts or curdling frogs

Thoughts tumble, though

 

Somersaulting insults

“There are people who

won’t like you for writing

this, Bitchypoo.”

 

Intuition’s Army doesn’t mingle

Life Fools’ Nudge Sargeants bluster in

Shouts and leaps and grumbling

Bellies, predominantly pushy

 

Intuition’s Army, instead is the

Humble questioning, the whisper-shouts

And the occasional boa-wearing tap

Dancer shuffle stepping her way

Into chanting, “Hear me!” and

“Be heard”… “NOW!”

Life Fools roustabout in the

Guilt-laced purgatory I strapped

Myself into

 

Intuition’s Army is in the breeze

In the surprise coincidence

In the circumstance that can’t be so

Yet is

 

Your voice, I get, was created,

I nod, to be heard, yes. It is.

To sing, to be shelter, and

Fortress and a scratchy, cozy

Vocal nest

 

Round tipped shoes cover my toes

As I hover at the edge of the question

I leave the coat of convention

Behind as I leave, having found the way

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comments

[Andy Sewina]

Yeah, I enjoyed reading this, thanks! And many thanks for the wonderful prompt today at RWP.

btw, love the bit about Bitchypoo!

[Robin]

Wow--this was some very powerful intuition! Nice write! BTW, thanks for the prompt, though I had a really tough time with it.

[pamela]

Ooh! Nice poem Julie. Thanks for the prompt I enjoyed it.
Pamela

[J D Mackenzie]

So many voices, so few forms of retaliation. Seriously, fascinating take on your own inspiration.
JDM