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82. Book Inspired: Think of your favorite book. Now write a poem that sums up the entire story in 10 lines.
((yes I skipped "on this day" today. If you must know, I had assembled it, then tried to cut and paste the entire list, got distracted and overwrote it, then decided it was not meant to be today))
Yes I have written poetry in the past and even shared it with others at times. But I have to be in a mood to do it and then the words flow easily onto the paper leaving it only as a question of how to organize the rush of metaphors, anecdotes, and flowery commonplaces into some sort of coherent structure. Today is not one of those days. Oh I started. I even decided which book I was going to use – The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien which even though it was published as a trilogy is actually one story with six “books” or segments along with forwards, prologues and appendices. . I cleverly started to incorporate the title of chapters in my free verse, and then my interest waned and I found myself thinking about the story rather than my summation, comparing book-verse to movie-verse, wondering if I would ever see my favorites without seeing the actors who portrayed them [all of them from Sam to Legolas to Aragon to Gandalf] and Peter Jackson’s version of Middle Earth has indelibly linked New Zealand with the Shire.
And somewhere in the welter of all that reflection, the ability to spout poetry fled and the prompt of the day goes unheeded
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