“Monster” Poem
Most of you are familiar with the program series on Discovery channel called “Monster - Garage: Homes: Choppers”. They are given seven days to complete an outrageous rebuild of a given project, that is still a work of art. In this case I was given seven days and 7 blank stanza’s to fulfill my obligation.
(day 1):
Planning a poem that is enormous one that is in size generous proportions must be voluminous yet has to be prodigious still not look mountainous.
(day 2):
Could use words like behemoth a better choice is massive should include colossus can’t forget immense.
(day 3):
Minor setback – words like jumbo another is large even one such as big all, not very extensive.
(day 4):
Back to basics; need words like spacious descriptive, as tremendous proportions like goliath stature as in gigantic.
(day 5):
Resort to inner knowledge now; words that come to mind, vast something prominent certainly mammoth has to be sizeable.
(day 6):
It’s now or never; must incorporate gargantuan another is elephantine can’t leave out huge must use giant.
(day 7);
The day of review; Have the objectives been met? Was the undertaking bigger than life? Is this an epic? Done on a large scale? Yes, it’s astronomical !!
~ fin ~
In the above series, the artisans were given prominent awards befitting their skills. I was given a rare first edition autographed leather bound book titled “ Tips on How to Write Poetry”. The size of the book is decidedly a king sized whopper.
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