RRWG Day 8 prompt” Write a poem for the “Earth Album.”

To Do and Feel

That one short step
from off the car park tarmac and onto
the spongy damp forest trail
is like walking into a different world
of true natural wonderland.

I recall the many feelings triggered
by the soft damp soil, the smell of rain
still tapping coded messages of comfort,
playing tunes that musicians envy.
I see a natural cleanliness
that exists only here.

The temperature and humidity
are flora and fauna perfection set
as only gods of nature know how.
Time becomes meaningless
in the soul of an eternal present,
right here, right now.

I am so happy—I can taste it.
I love you but this I must do solo.
Because here
we are never alone.

NaPoWriMo Day 8 prompt: Write a poem that uses a simple phrase repeatedly but includes statements that invert or contradict the phrase.

Typical

I am Normie Normal.
Bill of the bell curve.
A neurodivergent at the
bottom of the class.
Most likely to fail at life
to die young
and got old.

I am Normie Normal,
Joe Six Pack’s standard pal who is
so ordinary I’m exceptionally average.
Grade of passing C for me and my
multiple majors in BS or MA
holding his hip pocket ABD,
named Bill not Joe Schmoe who
gave up Nicky teen
for fourteen
marathons
at sixty-plus, too bad to die young.

Normie Normal is a conforming follower
or changer of rules
for ungifted Irish poets
who publish on late blooms.

A regular of the commons
who may champion the obvious
as he pushes against attempts
at enigmatic morality for Normie of Normalcy.

Look both ways at stereotypical personas.
Mind the gaps in the fortune teller’s magic 8 ball.