2023 NaPM 16 April

[RiverNotch]

Posting a little early today, as it's not-Gregorian Easter. (Χριστός ανέστη!)

This 2020 prompt on the same day is curiously specific. By 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.  Anyone is allowed to contribute a poem at any time.  

Topic: Death by Words (courtesy of 2018 IISZ Challenge prompt)
Write a poem, prose-poem, or prose piece which contains 17 or more of the 69 words below:

(Gender, tense, and plurality may be changed.)

The 69 words:

awesome, blind, bloody, bunny, burden, 
burning, cherish, crazy, cruel, cute, 
daredevil, darling, desire, destiny, devastate, 

disgrace, doom, drown, emptiness, eternity, 
extinction, fool, forever, grief, guilt, 
harmony, heavenly, hotheaded, hugs, humiliation, 

icy, immortality, infinite, joy, karma, 
kiss, kitten, kooky, loathing, longing, 
millstone, miracle, misery, moon, oath, 

oblivion, paralysis, passion, puppy, pure, 
rose, sacred, sacrifice, savage, serendipity, 
shame, shattering, slaughter, slave, sweetheart,

tears, torture, trauma, venomous, victim, 
weak, worry, wound, wrenching

Form: any
Lines: 8 or more

[Mark A Becker]

Karma

rose moon miracle 
blind crazy kiss
burning daredevil desire
pure hotheaded passion
heavenly misery
fool forever darling
infinite joy
longing immortality

[dukealien]

Guinevere


Pure paralysis:
icy immortality, guilt–
infinite karma.

Sacrificed desire
humiliated longing
devastated kiss.

Rise, wounded sweetheart.
Rise, darling daredevil, rise
my Sir Launcelot.

[TranquillityBase]

Awesome, blind, and bloody
burning down the cherished desires
destiny dooms the devastated disgrace
of heavenly extinction
leaving behind grief and guilt
to fester in icy immortality.

Karma is infinite in its loathing and joy
for the fool forever drowning in harmony
looking for a miracle outside the moon’s oblivion
trapped in a paralysis of sacred misery
dragging behind him a savage oath
longing for sacrifice, he is his own victim.

Burdened with this millstone 
of venomous weakness,
he tortures himself with tears, wrenching at last
the shattering shame from out of the wound
that serendipity makes a slave of passion
and a pure rose of trauma.

[CRNDLSM]

Ray's ice zebra princess challenge
Was one of the best head puzzles
I've ever enjoyed.
I have time right now to write 17
of the 69 words, 
To spin together a truly unhinged
String of lies, but effort scuffles
The ADHD void
That should be my brain, converting
prompts into turds

[Wjames]

The moon is a burden
circling the earth,
making waves that slaughter kittens
in Hawaii.

Passion is extinct in the city,
the millstone is too dull to grain
in the village, and the farmer
loathes his puppy.

Everyone sacred has fled
to the mountains,
waiting in icy caves
for a savage miracle
to erupt from the earth.

I worry about the rose
I planted on my mother's grave -
love does not grant immortality,
it is a devastating sacrifice
wrenching tears out of fools.

[RiverNotch]

playmate in disgrace


pink roses in
her hair, her hands stroking
icily the kitten
sleeping on her lap,

the bunny gropes blindly
for a burning reason
to continue to call "darling"
the paralysed mass

of blubber on the bed
where once she watched him
drown and did nothing,
she recalled her grief,

her humiliation, and with it
all she once desired,
she began to reason
it was all a sacrifice

she'd doomed herself to make,
she turned him to his side
and allowed the moon,
her real sweetheart, to set

[Quixilated]

Drama 

Darling, you have devastated my existence 
with your heavenly kiss and infinite joy.
In hotheaded longing I shall sacrifice 
tears of desire as an oath under the moon.
I will be your fool for eternity and your slave. 

Sweetheart, you have shattered my harmony.
This savage passion is like a bloody wound,
wrenching its victim—my heart—with cruel torture.
You are a welcome doom. Like a daredevil 
I will embrace this burning miracle for eternity.

Karma, destiny, serendipity—like millstones—
a cherished burden, bring me down, to drown,
to be forever slaughtered in your sacred oblivion. 
Without you there is only blind extinction,
an immortality of emptiness and misery. 

Bunny, you are so crazy cute it makes me weak.
But your icy loathing of my kooky ways,
and your constant venomous humiliation
have traumatized my poor pure heart 
and left me in a paralysis of grief and disgrace.