May Golden Shovel #12

source: Post Names First Woman as Top Editor

 

Stars glaze the night, sending a blog post

Reporting news from time’s origin. It names

Prophets from centuries past who claim the first

Humans created histories in starlight, written by a woman

Shaman. She leads her people to a feast as

Strong storms crash on a beach leading to the top

Of a pyramid staffed by not one editor.

 

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I’m 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.