🎶🎨NaPoWriMo – 30 poems in 30 days – April 2025 – No. 2🎨🎶

#NaPoWriMo #2025

Prompt April 2
And now for our daily prompt – optional, as always. Anne Carson is a Canadian poet and essayist known for her contemporary translations of Sappho and other ancient Greek writers. For example, consider this version of Sappho’s Fragment 58, to which Carson has added a modern song-title, enhancing the strange, time-defying quality of the translation. And just as many songs do, the poem directly addresses a person or group – in this case, the Muses. Taking Carson’s translation as an example, we challenge you to write a poem that directly addresses someone, and that includes a made-up word, an odd/unusual simile, a statement of “fact,” and something that seems out of place in time (like a Sonny & Cher song in a poem about a Greek myth).

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 To Socrates - A Triolet

Socrates' had a life of irony theory,
Where nothing is written in stone.
His Western philosophy a little world weary.
Socrates' had a life of irony theory,
Which he never wrote down, no fear he
Had students to do it for him, so he is known.
Socrates' had a life of irony theory,
Where nothing is written in stone.

He was a polarising figure in his day.
Accused of impiety and the corruption of youth.
He was sentenced to death no Coldplay.
He was a polarising figure in his day.
He was as ignorant as a hochmaplay.
He admitted that ignorance was the truth.
He was a polarising figure in his day,
Accused of impiety and the corruption of youth.

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