POETRY FOR 30 DAYS IN APRIL DAY 28

Project Details

Hello friend, I am Timothy Kimo Brien, head instigator at Create Art Podcast where we help you to tame the inner critic and create more than we consume. Every year in April National Poetry Writing Month occurs, this is a challenge to write 30 poems in 30 days and comes from the NaPoWriMo site. When you participate you are given a prompt every day for 30 days and you can choose to follow the prompt or not. Each prompt has a commentary with it and a style of poetry that you may not be familiar with. I enjoy it because it stretches my creative muscles and helps me organize my thoughts. I also really enjoy a good challenge. There is also an opportunity to read other people's work as they post on their websites and for you to comment on their work, giving them encouragement or offering a suggestion. Care to join me on this journey?

Day 28 Prompt

Our prompt today (optional, as always), is to write a poem that poses a series of questions. The questions could be a mix of the serious (“What is the meaning of life?”) and humorous (“What’s the deal with cats knocking things off tables?”), the interruptive (“Could you repeat that?”) and the conversational (“Are those peanuts? Can I have some?”). You can choose to answer them – or just let the questions keep building up, creating a poem that asks the reader to come up with their own answer(s).

Day 28 Poem

Could I Care?

If I poured out the contents of my mind

If I told you what I really think about every day

If there was a way to convey in few words my feelings

Would you swipe right or left

Would you care to investigate

Would you allow yourself to be touched

How can we stay focused on one thing

How can I convince you to listen

How will you let me know you are listening

When will the bomb go off in my head

When will this current misery end

When will we embrace each other as friends

Is the search for enlightenment a passing dalliance

Is the search for answers an appropriate time suck

Is there a way that I can better communicate through the pen

Should I care more about what the audience wants to hear

Should I care that I hear crickets when baring my soul

Should I start over with something new

Could I care a little bit more

Could I care if you are troubled

Could I care to take the time to heal myself

Are there answers to any of these questions

Are there any questions I have forgotten

Are there any answers that I have missed that reside within me

Reaching Out

To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and lets start that conversation.