NaPoWriMo 2016

Day 4 - The Cruelest Month

April 4 prompt:
What is your weather right now? Think about how people normally depict that type of weather as an emotion. Ex: rain = depression, sun = happiness, breeze = carefree. Then write a poem about that weather using an opposite emotion. Ex: rain = happiness, sun = depression, breeze = oppression.

I know this may be a tough prompt, but it's fun to write something that's not as cliche. I can't wait to read a few of these if you choose to use this prompt.

NaPoWriMo.net
And now, for our (optional) prompt. In his poem “The Waste Land,” T.S. Eliot famously declared that “April is the cruelest month.” But is it? I’d have thought February. Today I challenge you to write a poem in which you explore what you think is the cruelest month, and why. Perhaps it’s September, because kids have to go back to school. Or January, because the holidays are over and now you’re up to your neck in snow. Or maybe it’s a month most people wouldn’t think of (like April), but which you think of because of something that’s happened in your life. Happy (or, if not happy, not-too-cruel) writing!

The Cruelest Month

The cruelest month
What do I think?
Much depends on the year
I dare say,
A winter month would take the prize...
Yet a spring month
With a blast of winter
Pressing in and catching us unaware
Could take the Cup this year.
April sits uncertain
Deep in a blast of late blizzard snow
We wait for our next bit of time off
Easter was early this year
So now it is not until May
That we see a holiday divine
February takes a close second this year
But I have to agree
With T.S. Eliot's decree
April is the cruelest month.

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