How to Make a Paulitical Poem!

When Poppy requests work, Poppy gets what she wants. So, Poppy, here is my first entry into your incredibly fun prompt challenge:

1. Take a convoluted idea. Something ridiculous and likely to drive you insane. (or just poetically moan, again)

2. Spend way too long pondering over whether it is worth the mental pain.

3. Create haikus and microfiction to avoid the inevitable first draft

4. When the words want to have their out, it's time to prove your craft

5. Let the page or screen have it with literal poetic diarrhea

6. Look at it, read it, marvel and then refine and remix the idea

7. Wait no longer than five or six minutes, not hours before publishing

8. Once it's published, try to avoid checking, refreshing and checking

9. Know that the comments will come through eventually

10. Dharr will say something dark, but kind, inevitably.

11. Revel in your own deeply satisfying crapulence

12. Feel overtaken by a sudden sense of elegance

13. Raise a glass to Poppy, Burns, Davis and the Saras

14. Give a toast to the Holmes Two, Kristen, Dahl and Danas

15. Celebrate and comiserate with Heather, Novel and Grz on your creation

16. Share with Lamar, RP and Celia a kind word or two and a salutation

17. Rinse, refresh and repeat

!8. But remember to be discreet

19. When following this wise advice

20. A world with more poets like me, is anything but nice.

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Thanks for reading!

Author's Notes: Before I get my head down and concentrate today on NaNoWriMo type madness, thought I'd slip this one out.

It is for Poppy's challenge, as mentioned at the beginning, which you can find out more about here:

The term Paulitical was coined by Novel Allen in her piece Puzzlementationismitis, which you can check out here:

You can also check out the rest of my work here.