New Look, New Cards

As promised, this project will continue, if at a slightly more manageable pace. Every Monday, I will draw a card and roll the die. From the outcome,I will write and post a poem here, sometime before midnight on Sunday. Taking into consideration a week off here and there, this list of topics will take us through to next April.

Below is a revised near-deck of cards - a mix of the unused topics from the past two years along with a few new ones:


RULE CARD New Ways of Living
2C Palate Cleansers
2D The Power of Red Lipstick
2S Irrational Fears
2H Noble lies
3C Quails
3D Abortion Protesters
3S Octopuses
3H Bonfires
4C Television
4D Vices
4S Scratch Tickets
4H Komodo Dragons
5C David Icke
5D Bodacious Babes*
5S Silly Bandz
5H Schadenfreude
6C Two Girls, One Cup
6D The Great Bear
6S Sacred Spaces
6H Crying on the Internet
7C Misanthropy
7D School Photos
7S Wooden Escalators
7H Young Poets
8C Zombies
8D The Hundred Flowers Campaign
8S Meteors/Meteorites
8H White Day
9C A High Schooler on Gchat
9D Evolution/Devolution
9S Kissing a Married Woman
9H Resident Ghosts
10C Big Pete/Little Pete
10D Red Dawn
10S Rooftops
10H Underage 'X's
JH Paper Flowers
QH Mitochondrial DNA
KS Righteous Gentiles
AD Sophomore Slumps
RED JOKER Justice
YELLOW JOKER Martyrdom


And here's an altered list of forms:

1 Prose
2 Variable
3 Ruba'i
4 Sestina
5 Rondeau
6 Sapphic Ode
7 Blank Verse
8 Shakespearean Sonnet
9 Petrarchan Sonnet
10 Spenserian Sonnet
11 Haiku
12 Limerick
13 Tweet Length
14 Beat Poem
15 Acrostic
16 Free Verse
17 Villanelle
18 Cragislist Missed Connection
19 Variable
20 Any Above Form

"Variable" means I will choose from a list of lesser topics including Zen Koan, Bruce Springsteen Song, and plenty of other surprises.

You may notice that there are thirteen cards missing from the deck. Some or all of these will come into play, depending on how ambitious I feel.

Expect the set-up for the first poem here on Monday. In the meantime, read this April's project and/or last April's project, both now more easily navigable!


Enjoy, dear readers!

* Blogger's spell check suggestions for the phrase "Bodacious Babes": 

Mendacious Babes, Veracious Babes, Sagacious Babes, Contumacious Babes