Today Mish is in charge of prompting for the Quadrille. What is a quadrille? It is a form unique to the dVerse Pub. It has exactly 44 words, excluding the title and it must use the prompted word in the body of the poem. Not a representation or definition of the word, but the word itself. I have been going through a lot of changes. I have been thinking that most of what I write is crap. Plain and simple. It is part of the process – some of it is actually good. So today I am writing my manifesto in 44 words using the word “rock”. That is the prompted word: rock. Use it, skip it, throw it, paint it, build with it, dance to it, build a fire with it.
throwing rocks
A boy with a rock slew a giant years ago.
What is your giant?
What will you slay today?
Intolerance? Racism? Hunger?
Sexual abuse? Animal cruelty?
My poems are my rocks.
I am letting them loose today.
Let loose the brave poems.
*Yūkan’na koto.
*Japanese for: be brave as in bushido
piles of rocks in Japan – public domain photo
kanzen sakura 