Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Six Sentence Story.
Denise is host.
(The way of the bloghop: a story, six sentences in length, based on the week’s prompt word.)
In my defense, allow me to say one thing: a) I will forgo the self-deprecation that is a hallmark of my people and 2) …It wasn’t my: fault, hubris, self-destructiveness that caused me to come up with the Six below.
I was minding my own business, riffing off the prompt word…. hit the idea of an operating room… but then the ‘clear’ lead me to the Bible and then, obviously to death which, naturally led me to Dylan Thomas.
Then the trouble started!
‘Mashup’ popped into my head and I thought to myself, I thought, ‘Hey! Maybe there’s such things as poetry mashups! That way I won’t have to think up rhymes and such.’
And here you have it.
Prompt word:
Clear
(From far above, drawing near, he heard),”Clear”, the velet-iron command, trapped in a colorless sun, turned the 33 rpm waltz of anesthesiologist and surgical assistants into a 78 rpm ragtime, where only one instrument mattered.
Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile;
So ere you find where light in darkness lies,
Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.1(Both avalanche and cresting wave, he felt), “Again”, wrapped from head to toe in featureless cloth, the better to avoid the gods’ anger at Man’s unbridled ambition, masked eyes offered dying hope.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.2!!(From both within and without, rose), “Call it” only the slump of shoulders and release of muscle and tendon betrayed the burden of coming in last; weightless olive wreath awarded, if only to mark the end of the contest.
“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”3…
1) William Shakespeare, ‘Love’s Labor’s Lost’ © 2019 eNotes.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
2) COPYRIGHT: from The Poems of Dylan Thomas, published by New Directions. Copyright © 1952, 1953 Dylan Thomas. Copyright © 1937, 1945, 1955, 1962, 1966, 1967 the Trustees for the Copyrights of Dylan Thomas. Copyright © 1938, 1939, 1943, 1946, 1971 New Directions Publishing Corp
3) 1 Corinthians 13:12
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Dare i call this anything but a clear winner?
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Excellent and clever SSS poetry mashup!
thank you Miz Brockett
What?! No happy ending? :)
Cool 6.
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Wonderful! I thoroughly enjoyed this.
That is a good thing.
Clearly a winner!
thanks, Paul
Clark! You definitely pulled this off like silk. Excellent train of thought and selections.of accompanying verse. Brilliant job!
It was fun and, for whatever reason, involved less cranium-into-wall to find the words… half being generously, if not posthumously, donated to my effort. lol
A magnificent Mash. (I thought poetry was for girls?)
Thanks, D
(lol … well, fortunately I was not required to create the poem element of this Six. Still an intimidating notion, that poetry. Maybe once I’ve mastered prose, I’ll turn my attention to poetry.*)
*have I used up my allotment of lols?
Absolutely perfect!!!
Oh my…..Now this took me places…..will have to read and listen a few more times. Amazing.
thankee
Clearly magnificent!
Thank you, Ms. Tomey