Today's prompts from Write Better Poetry and NaPo WriMo: (1) Write a "fan" poem, and (2) "write your own poem in which all the verses contain the same number of lines (whether couplets, triplets, quatrains, etc.) and in which you give the reader instructions of some kind."
Good grief, it's my birthday again! And this is a pretty big one. My family celebrates four birthdays in one celebration each year, all of them within two and half weeks of each other: me, my oldest son, my daughter-in-law, and my younger granddaughter, in that order. My wife made me a delicious pina colada pineapple upside down-cake, and I got lots of nice presents, including registration for a big poetry workshop retreat this fall. (More on that later, if I'm accepted.) Anyway, one of my traditions is to write a birthday poem to myself each year on my birthday as part of PAD. Regarding the prompts, I found that couplets do seem to work best when giving instructions, and I make a passing reference to the "fan" theme in stanza 8.
three-quarters of a century.
entering great-grandpa territory.
and tell your body to behave.
including nothing.
you’ve dodged along the way.
you have suffered through.
family, travels, books, charity.
Be your own biggest fan.
Toast dear ones who never made it this far.
the azaleas that celebrate you every year.
what may lurk around the corner.
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