Oppositizing

Day 30, the last day of NaPoWriMo, the prompt is to take a published short poem and change as many words as possible to an opposite meaning. The source poem is "One's - Self I Sing" from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Networked In Silence

All networked in silence, a complicated connected system
won't utter a political syllable, the speaker is void
of spirit from core to surface, it's silence
not mapping alone nor thought
alone, is unworthy for writer's block

They think the form emptied, is less near
the nut joined with the bolt I hum
of death's minute indifference, vibration of weakness
depressed for slaves in action formed
under the entropy of earth
the ancient air in silence

Foreign Language

Day 29 NaPoWriMo prompt to write a poem using at least five words from a foreign language:

Gatekeeper

The gatekeeper said
"Chrima kaitin exousia echoun panta echoun para meinei piso apo tis pyles"

A man left in pain
"Ich habe genug von den leigen hatte
Ohne reprieve aus dem refrain
Es spielt keine rolle" his partner muttered

A woman left in frustration
"Tandis que le the se bat avec les syndicats
Coulerirs divises sa nation
ou est la liberte" while passing the faded flag

Some others cried out
"Phribhleid unoficial"
"Obychnyye lyudi V"
"Landet av frihet ar numera det land av de rika och fattiga"
"Podczas gdy straznik usmiechnal sie I liczy swoje peniadze"

An opening act and green

Last night I was the opening act for a fellow Florida singer-songwriter Grant Peeples at the Americana Community Music Association Listening Room, here is a link to the video of my performance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tPpNioAubo

Day 28 NaPoWriMo prompt to write about the meaning, mood and things associated with a color

The Green Child

The green child seeks balance
walking a fine line of survival
Spring out of snow sprouts from dormance
Bring lasting light, hope and renewal

The green child learns to listen
to subtle sound intonations, everything changes with one snap
Observing every subtle transition
Tracking hazardous dark destinations on a map

The green child errs on the side of perceived good
Leaning hard swaying wrong from right
Doing as told today should
Constantly seeking light

The green child plays it safe
Taught to want, hold and keep
Drawing in the sun for strength
Standing on a rock in waters deep

The green child grows and rests
The green child hopes for peace

Internet proverb or phrase

Day 27 NaPoWriMo prompt to do a search on a well known proverb or phrase and take interesting words or phrases from the first few webpages to make a poem:

Let It Go

Create and maintain my problems
Hold onto pain beyond the need
play past mistakes over and over again
worry, frustration and fixation giving power to stress in mind and body

Let it go, release myself
see thru the truth and them lies
there will never be a time when life is simple
Imagine my life

Let it go a little, have a little peace
Let it go a lot, have a lot of peace
Let it go

see the seven foot idea
living my life about peace
deep breathing
difference from the real and the make believe

Let it go a little, have a little peace

Let it go a lot, have a lot of peace

Let it go

Changing perception, put it in a box of expectations
Stay in the present moment, channel discontent
Engage in activity, feel it fully
Address feelings creatively, reflect present reality
Focus on what I control, throw anger out a rant window
Reward acceptance, replace emotion with facts
Laugh it out, imagine life years from now
Let it Go

Erasures Le__a_d C_hen

Day 26 NAPoWriMo prompt to take a poem and remove parts, this is a search from the Leonard Cohen Concordance http://www.leonardcohen.com/us/friends/links
for poems fragments with the words "zero", "none" and "nothing", pasted and editing out the middle leaving only the beginning and ending line fragments from the search, sticthed together and slightly edited

Zero None Nothing

I could twist the black
I walked into a hospital Dinner
Zero was brought lowvisiting the family

• Fear either of their cars.
  1963 None of the walls jump when I call them
  I lie back in the luxury from the knees
  forever happy chewing sunflower seeds
  Medium Oversize incisors?
  
  
  Thighs from my old poems you might say but that's none of your business now
  I have no electricity or power There is nothing here 
  We still love beauty there's nothing I can lose
  and the friendly blinding light
  
  
  Had we nothing to prove but love Nothing has been broken
  The banks so familiar Love me because nothing happens
  Love me because How you murdered your family
  and the A tune rises up there is nothing to notice perhaps a heart will catch rain
• • 
    
    It is happening We warned you before
    Any system you contrive without us whispered nothing
    drove all your love through it's as though there's nothing wrong with me at all
    Just I enjoyed the gardenia from Sophia's courtyard 
    July 4, 1963 scratch winds that blow
    
    
    houses walls or trees I wanted to talk about your eyes
    So many people only with you 
    flashing on your new red fingernails Do not forget old friends 
    and only visits you on a raid O there is nothing in your body's light
    The clinic of your thighs against I tried -- I am the same -- come the same.
    Will nothing keep you here, my love, my love? We knew nothing of Pharaoh's negotiations 
    and made rattles that I write this
    
    
    my greed has made a slave of you I have no ideas to shackle you 
    or what you do not deserve because you cared for nothing
    the drugstores were her place by the river
    dressing up for but unfortunately this had really nothing to do with either:
    Hell, I might know nothing of covenant or phoenix
    they punish one another Nothing of time or massacre
    
    
    Folded nothing is heard, not even breathing
    they have become soldiers and riders like the rusted key
    changed nothing in your life Unaware he took his instrument
    And soon his limbs were strong how sweet I used to find it 
    thinking much more about suicide and money folded over the chair 
    
    
    for years in the world Believe nothing of me
    more closely than hello about nothing 
    enforce In the cold mirror of opium 
    but the pendulum boat of rib and skin, nothing that can bleed
    1962 ladders, braces, hooks. Unlike the invalid's cathedral, men hang with these instruments. A dancing wall of molecules, changing nothing, has cleared a place for me and my time balancing wish with loss until its misty sperm ocean past 1964
  • • • • while I keep silent my love seizes and hardens 
          Exactly where did you feel nothing? 
          Does drifting together her royal raw impatience
          July 1964 I've lost what all the leaves are called
          
          
          Far into the splinter let's sing for nothing
          1958 but nothing in the sky responds
          made me nothing held
          the Leader It seems that nothing is lost that is not forsaken
          wrapped in a starry flag a master-God floats through the firmament like There is nothing for him to do but preside
          who refuse to suffer,
          I learn nothing
        
        

Ballad

Day 25 NaPoWriMo prompt to write a poem in ballad form ABAB 8686:

Days expected to entertain
poems in ballad form
Nothing comes it all seems the same
leftwise feeling forlorn

playing covers to sing along
only if they move me
human jukebox serves mindless throngs
lost in a bad movie

Nothing said here this poem struck
brain is starting to hurt
For your career my friend good luck
hope that its what its worth

Name anagrams

Day 24 NaPoWriMo prompt to write a poem using anagrams of your name:

Dear A
Dawn warned we were near day
Draw a nerdy end yawner ray
Dare we wander near war's way
Darn

So Joe
Hope goes, Josh poses, she shops
Spose he has a peso?
Posh hose seeps on a rose, she hops,
Soph?

The etch
Heat catch, get egg, He tech
Get eh?

Wednesday
Drop any catch and prosper
Swear to,  spend happy days great
depend hear on answers
sang so go nest present, see hear regenerate
Rest, stay, joy, yoga, peace, let go