source: In a Dark Time, Orchestral Music to Make You Smile
(New York Times, May 1, 2021, Arts p. C4)
Cherry blossoms on May Day sweep in
On a frosty wind, rattling windows of a
Lost haven. You heard brassy notes from a dark
Visitation warning that no one could time
Their birth. Motion made manifest orchestral
Clashes: cymbals, tympani, triangles. The music
Of the spheres turns novas inside out, to
Go backward in time, before sound or color make
Life. There is no beginning in a universe you
Do not understand, yet still, you smile.
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I am continuing to use 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.
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