Did Day 3 convince you that random words are your friends? Today’s (optional) poetry prompt is another simple way to harvest words for your poetry.
Borrowed Word Challenge: Grab the closest book, go to page 29, and write down ten words. Use seven of them in a poem. Extra credit if you use four of them at the end of a line. Thank you again to Kelli Russell Agodon for this and other fun prompts for National Poetry Writing Month.
Here are my words and what I wrote with them. I tried to be keep this poem pretty lean, using the found words and little else. The book I grabbed was my current obsession, a falling apart 1895 copy of The Cottage Physician that I inherited from my grandmother. Page 29 describes the structure of the human heart.
ventricles, flattened, inclosed, moist, membranous, sack, smooth, cavity, valves, heart-case
unrequited love
valve me into
your heart-case
moist cavity of a
membranous sack
ventricled memories
pumping me flat
pumping me smooth
you will hardly know
that I am there