NaPM April 26th 2019

[Quixilated]

Rules: Write a poem for national poetry month on the topic or form described. Each poem should appear as a separate reply to this thread. The goal is to, at the end of the month have written 30 poems for National Poetry Month. 

NaPM April 26, 2019

Topic: Write a poem about the day the world changed.

Form: any

Line Requirement: 8 lines or more

[Wjames]

For Victoria, a Friend

Her first kiss was with a cigarette
singeing a hole through her shirt,
sparking a fire in the small of her back
as she rolled in a field with a boy
fumbling at the clasps of her bra,
drunk and nervous and laughing
with their breaths forming clouds
for the moon to shine through.

She told me the story the day we met,
and I wished I was the boy
until the day she died, and I realized
what might have been lost.

[Richard]

Modern Immortality

I envision him mowing the grass,
memories of Twilight Zone
haunting his overheated brain;
just another afternoon that was supposed  
to be like a week ago,
until the twinge in his chest,
sudden as plot twists
usually saved for the endings,
whispered he'd live on in reruns.

[dukealien]

Prometheus Day


There may be disagreement on the day
the world changed, but can we at least agree
it had to do with fire?

Perhaps it was the day some proto-man
discovered that by seizing its cold end
he could pick up a burning branch to lift
and carry it to somewhere else, which he
or some descendant found could also be
set burning if he liked.

A greater change, it seems, took place upon
some day a later human found he could
make fire himself, without a lightning stroke,
by twirling sticks together rapidly
or striking ferrous stone with flint to spark
new flames at any time.

I say the world changed, rather, on that day
when one man taught another how to light
a fire, their method’s not significant.
From then it spread as no inferno could,
this knowledge that a man could change the world–
which then, of course, they did.

[CRNDLSM]

7 days of major change
The world changes everyday
Birth and death anomolies
Of nature changing natures.
Fight or flight survivalists
React to random events,
Most important being now,
For today, today is a good day to die.

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I've been called out... Must... change...

[billy]

super nova fragalistic now my heads exploded
i would like to raise a glass and say that i am loaded
it went bank at ten o'clock; the barman wouldn't serve me
super nova fargalist, fragalistic, my head has exploded
i never thought i drank that much; two bottles of tequila
and when i went to have a piss i walked like helen keerer,
oops keller; um diddle liddle diddle um dishl ishal pishll ickl lum in me eye...
oh! super nova fragitastic what's for fuckin dinner?