#napowrimo2023 #day5 #putsomeofthatshitdown

#napowrimo2023

#day5

#putsomeofthatshitdown

#inappropriatelaughter

#versedaily

Put some of that shit down.

Close those tabs

Let some of the plates fall,

you can buy more plates,

more resilient tableware,

perhaps made of bamboo, so you won’t have the

guilt of plastic, but hey if you

need some paper plates too, that’s okay.

Rest, read books, listen to podcasts,

shock listen to nature,

find serenity, be serenity,

be vulnerable, show your soft,

underbelly and keyhole scars.

Be cared for not carer

Others can be responsible for themselves.

A gift for them to grow,

step up to the bamboo plate

Make space and time to transition

with ease, what is 6, 8, 12 weeks

In the ledger of your life.

Be gentle with yourself.

Accept this is what it is.

Today's prompt for the day. Begin by reading Charles Simic’s poem “The Melon.” It would be easy to call the poem dark, but as they say, if you didn’t have darkness, you wouldn’t know what light is. Or vice versa. The poem illuminates the juxtaposition between grief and joy, sorrow and reprieve. For today’s challenge, write a poem in which laughter comes at what might otherwise seem an inappropriate moment – or one that the poem invites the reader to think of as inappropriate.