30/30: Golden Shovel #20

source: Justices Increasingly Express Dim View of the News Media

 

Glittering sunlight brightens five justices

Eating vegan ramen on an increasingly

Cloudy afternoon. They cannot express

Opinions that do not match the dim,

Cloud-covered sky and offer no view

Of definitive answers. Numinous shades of

Questioning colors sprout like ragweed in the

Courtyard of temptation, while news

Of distant rebellions riot through the media.

 

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Here is how I am using Terrance Hayes’s Golden Shovel poem format, as proposed by the Sunday New York Times "At Home" section, for 30 Poems in 30 Days during National Poetry Month.

 

Take a newspaper headline that attracts you.

Use each word in the line as the end word for each line in your poem.

Keep the end words in order.

Describe the story that the headline is for.

The poem does not have to be about the same subject as the headline that creates the end words.