And here’s our own prompt (optional, as always) for the first day of Na/GloPoWriMo. They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, but they never said you can’t try to write a poem based on a book cover — and that’s your challenge for today! Take a look through Public Domain Review’s article on “The Art of Book Covers.” Some of the featured covers are beautiful. Some are distressing. Some are just plain weird (I’m looking at you, “Mr Sweet Potatoes”). With any luck, one or more of these will catch your fancy, and open your mind to some poetic insights.
too damned many clouds
i yearn for sunlight
seek it with my skin
what’s that? a ray peeked through?
but any warmth is cooled
so quickly. oh. so. quickly
by clouds passing
before the face of the sun
all those blobs
of water waiting to fall
someplace nearby
too damned many clouds
defying atrophy 