Poetry Prompt #7

[Sumyanna]

So sorry. I actually made a prompt for last week and totally forgot to post it. Oh, getting old! Anyway - I will use that prompt for this week (I just wrote for it).

Here is the next word list prompt. Here are 10 words to inspire your writing. Use them to create anything form of poetry. The main thing is to read something into these words - and let them tell you a story.

box
sugar
hop
company
voiceless
join
pricey
overt
sincere
grain


The minimum word use is set at 3 words. I have found - trying to use as many as I can helps me stretch my writing. It is good practice.

Please post your writing here - so everyone can see what you came up with. Part of the joy in doing this exercise is to see how many different ways these words can take you.

~ Sumyanna

[MHenry]

Voiceless consumers hop
to buy boxes
of pricey sugared grain
sold by faceless companies
joining in sincerely overt monopolies

[Muttado1sb]

I'm glad I wrote before I read the other posts or I may have drawn into this serialized set of responses. Enjoyable, MH.

[Sumyanna]

Bison MHenry I find it so cool - both of you going the cereal route. I never even thought of it. Funny enough, I posted this prompt elsewhere and one of the posts that has come in already was about cereal as well. You know - they say great minds think alike!

[MHenry]

The words cascaded into the cereal bowl of my mind and came out Cheerios!

[Bison]

The Captain and the hoppy Rabbit boxing
Chocula sang voiceless
Of sincere whole grains shocking
And General M. left me choiceless

"It isn't pricey, not so dicey.
Join me, support the company."

Call me kookoo but keep it covert
They'll drown you if you speak overt
The General gets em when they're still eating boogers
Keeps em forever with those sweet sinful sugars

[MHenry]

Nicely done with humor, Bison!

[Muttado1sb]

Very good, Bison. Or rather, it's grrrrrreat!

[Sumyanna]

Love it! So glad I have outgrown the need to eat that stuff!

[Muttado1sb]

Listen to Mama

Now, sugar,
I don't think that's
what you want to do.
You hop up here
and you listen to mama.
Those boys are
bad company
to hang with.
You join with them
and you're stuck with them.
Sure,
they sound nice.
They say what they are doing
is for the good.
But sugar,
there's not a grain
of truth
in what they say.
They are out
for themselves,
not for anyone else.
They won't let you
do what you want.
You do what they say.
They won't let you be free.
If they were sincere
they would be overt
with their intentions,
not hide behind
jumbled rhetoric
and babbled beliefs.
They would let you
question
rather than tell you
what to think.
They make
you voiceless,
sugar, and
it's too pricey
to lose your voice.
So, you listen to
your mama.
Don't let them
box you in
with their lies.
Don't let them
take your voice.
Don't let them
take your
freedom.

[Muttado1sb]

I heard her say ''Now, sugar'' and that set me going. Thanks.

[imrogue]

nice one Muttado

[Muttado1sb]

Thank you, imrogue.

[RhymeLovingWriter]

Trains

hop on box car
much less pricey
voiceless go far
though it's dicey
grain in hoppers
real show stoppers
hobo - no go

sugar, ships in
bulk containers
joined sweet-laden
poor bunk - overt
company voice
railroads poor choice
all clear – sincere

I'm trying to catch up on word prompt poems. It's slow going with this one because I wanted to go a more humorous route (?) and practice the ha'sonnet form, but I found it difficult to fit these words even into slant rhyme that would flow and make sense. Ah well, I guess that's why we keep experimenting.

[GrimReefer]

My box car feels like a sugar rush.
I hop inside my imagination, I have company...
Voiceless voids join in for a pricey and overt fail.
No sincere heart is around to taste a grain of my riches.

[Raku]

Peta probably wouldn't approve, but I can't help what the mind comes up with...


Kangaroos hop around in the tiny box
The marsupial are such, sincere jocks
Their overt speed and agility
Draw in such a wild company

Onlookers cheer, but remain voiceless
At these beasts' amazing prowess
While they grain each other with fists and swift kicks
Even more of a crowd join into watch their antics

After an epic match, the fight is done
It wasn't at all pricey to have this fun
Minds racing, and hearts heavily pounding
Who needs sugar, when we got this to get us going