http://www.napowrimo.net/ "Today, we challenge you to write a poem in which the words or meaning of a familiar phrase get up-ended. For example, if you chose the phrase “A stitch in time saves nine,” you might reverse that into something like: “a broken thread; I’m late, so many lost.” Or “It’s raining cats and dogs” might prompt the phrase “Snakes and lizards evaporate into the sky.”
He
who pays the piper calls the tune
triggered
Paupers
dance to another's music
We jerky marionettes on barb-wire strings;
We charmless flapping birds with broken wings,
Who peck and mob each other given chance.
Those corporate sirens draw us into place
With charms that promise hope and future dreams.
Beneath the glamour nothings what it seems,
As drumsticks beat out laws with steady pace.
To break the rhythm and to waltz away,
To live the simple life that’s free from care;
To take that chance of freedom if you dare;
To go where there’s no jig you have to pay.
And yet the bonds of money soon rebind,
Life may be free but medicine is not
And food, clean water, shelter must be got.
Each stately measure echoes in the mind.
And so we polka to the stinging whip
Of symphonies composed for others ears.
We glide in patterns, tango though our years
Until we dance in death's relentless grip.
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