Here’s Garnett’s response to Sarah Blake’s prompt in the Found Poetry Review Impromptu series for National Poetry Month. She suggested choosing a song and having its dynamics open the door to a poem. The song Garnett chose is Carole King’s “You’ve got a friend, ” which Garnett sang and read until this poem happened. Perhaps Garth Brooks will be taken by the lyrics and turn them into his next hit! LOL!
Country, western
So it’s a dark day, and a darker night
And the rain’s still coming down
You wanna put down the bottle
but instead you take another swig
And when I call you say you love me
And I hesitate, oh I hesitate
‘Cause it’s hard to believe, so hard to believe
after all that you’ve done, done to me
I wanna say I love you, too, because I do
But I hesitate, oh I hesitate
So I ask, “is it still pourin’? Are the streetlights all on?
Do they shine up the pavement? Ain’t they pretty”?
You take another swig
Then you tell me again you love me
And I wanna say I love you, too, because I do
Still I hesistate, oh I hesitate
till it’s late; time to get off the phone
watch the rain through my tears
Impromptu poem: Day 6 (Found Poetry Review)
In response to Noah Eli Gordon’s prompt to “write a poem comprised of a single sentence, spread across at least seven lines of no fewer than 5 words each. Repeat one of your lines 3 times, but not in succession. Include the following: the phrases ‘as when the,’ a scientific term, a flower’s proper name, the name of a country in South America, a person’s proper name, the phrase ‘which is to say,’ something improper.”
Uncle
You make me do what I don’t want to
but I can’t pretend I don’t understand —
you: Self-satisfied, self-pleasured, self-absorbed, self-ish Sam—
you speak to me in dialects I wish were foreign
or that I’d need a cochlear implant to hear
but I can’t pretend I don’t understand
which is to say I’m like helianthus facing south and west
as when the sun goes down toward Ecuador
and I turn, too, because you make me do what I don’t want to
but I can’t pretend I don’t understand
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