#3WW + #NaPoWriMo + CED2010 = Flaws

This poem is an amalgamation of prompts and images. (I wrote that sentence strictly so I could use amalgamation in a sentence, by the way.) The prompt from ReadWritePoem asked us to explore the concept of flaws: “write a poem about flaws and perfection in yourself or in nature or write about how you feel about being imperfect or perfect.”

I was feeling rather edgy and maudlin when I woke up. Somehow writing about flaws added to the dreary feelings climbing around my gut so I turned to 3WW (Three Word Wednesday) and wrote a draft that looks nothing like the poem that eventually was written. I have to also give hats off to Julia Cameron, one of my favorite authors, whose book  "Finding Water" also provided hearty inspiration. I love reading about her struggles to consistently write when she is in a place of sludginess. I also found a water color I had painted last Spring in a moment of writing block, a water color I proclaimed “too flawed to be included with other art.”

Have I mentioned that besides loving “amalgam” I love synchronicity?

Somehow, between the connection with Cameron, the watercolor and the two varied prompts, I came up with a poem I am on the verge of liking myself.

In the dictionary under “F”

And then “Fl” and finally

“Flaw” some days I expect

a line drawing of myself to

stare back from the page

 

Instead there is “a crack” and

“a gap” with a “faulty part”

it says “nullify it” – random

thought, the word “nullify”

is flawless when spoken

 

The ebb of definition two reaches up,

Wants to negotiate away the

Fissures and crevices

“Sudden burst of wind!”

Yes, a squall blows flaws  south

 

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Comments

[Tharangni]

nice one really!!! :) writing about the context of a dictionary page! :) but in ur post the word 'ebb' is missing which is also a word in 3ww this weekk..

[Francis Scudellari]

What serendipity to find the synchronicity in such an amalgamation :). I really like how you used the word's own definition to negate and nullify the flawed. And I didn't know that second definition, so I learned something too...

[ThomG]

Well, I certainly like it.

[Julie Jordan Scott]

Thanks, Tharangni - fixed it so ebb shows up. It was in my written version, but you know how flaws show up in transcription! :-)

[pia]

I like the way the definition ebbs into the poem. Gritty as fissures should be

[Dan Rako]

I like the spaces between your words.

[Anthony North]

An intriguing poem. I'm a lover of synchronicity, too.

[Dee]

I think your first paragraph is flawed - the line drawing will be me LOL

[Stan Ski]

You brought together a number of prompts well here.
Good post.

[Thomma Lyn]

A great job with the prompts, and I enjoyed the synchronicity. :)