Yeah, we'll see.

NaPoWriMo? I'm not gonna promise. No way. I'm doing well just to keep my Lenten vows, and those are made to God, for pete's sake! And we all know how well my photo365 went! But we'll see. I'll just do one today. And it's completely silly. Heh.

The assignment:

Welcome to National Poetry Month! We’re going to start off easy. Metaphor. The definition that I like best is “two disparate things yoked together to create new meaning.” Not sure where I heard that — might have been a professor, might have been a drunken poet… . Either way, it’s an apt description!

Right now, at this very minute, list five things in front of you. In front of you being a relative term: on your desk, on your arm, out your window … . Choose the two most disparate things and yoke them together into a fabulous metaphor. Now, use it in a poem.

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These are my five things, except I can never follow rules, so there are six.

lamp
Wite-out
picture
bracelet
monitor
cat food

And here's my silly poem:

Cat food lamp

The cat food bin sits
three-quarters full,
a sign of hope
against the fear of not enough.

The lamp gives less than
ideal light –
harsh, glaring –
and still a sign of hope
against the fear of dark and void.

This month of spring,
this month, April,
a month of spring
break, and lighter
evenings, and
garden flower abundance –
my sign of hope
against the fear of not enough
against the fear of dark and void

a cat food lamp unto my feet.