It seems no one posted an “official” prompt for today, so I borrowed one from Diane Lockward’s The Crafty Poet II: the repurposed haiku. The directions read:
Choose one haiku that has words you like. Write each word, one per line, down the left side of a piece of paper. Each word begins a new line of your new poem . . . You are not writing a haiku.
This is the haiku I chose:
Glorious sunset Decorating the night sky… Awaiting the moon —David Fox
And here is my poem:
awaiting the moonrise glorious summer evening sunset projects its technicolor light show decorating the mesa with jewel tones until the sun sinks and the sky fades night smothers the blazing colors like a blanket tossed over embers sky deepens to midnight black awaiting the pin-pricks of stars piercing its canopy the distant suns winking moon rises and rules the sky
©ARHuelsenbeck
ARHtistic License 