WORLD POETRY DAY 2023 WRITING PROMPT
Always Be A Poet Even In Prose
A poem for Charles Baudelaire
And I should choose my words as artfully
to speak my truth as I consider it
as Baudelaire wrote drunk remarkably
on opium, hashish, French wine a bit,
and more while watching evil flowers bloom
with wretchedness of our vile humanity,
this poetry of yearning hearts and doom,
a flaneur’s convalescence, lavishly.
We should live each of our own moments as a poet. If we walk this path
we have no choice. Everything we do and experience becomes the poem.
Written in response to Carolyn Hastings World Poetry Day 2023 Prompt contained in her wonderful piece below….
If anyone would like to contribute to the prompt, World Poetry Day may have passed, but the Paper Poetry Event ends on March 31.
Theodore McDowell, Lubna Yusuf, Monoreena Acharjee Majumdar, Jenine "Jeni" Baines, Neera Handa
