Posing As Executive Privilege
Strike a happy balance.
You’re (sic) ready-for-action attitude
makes you a shining example
in executive circles.
Out of balance circles:
the tire’s about to blow.
Strike a backward balance:
Your wicked specimens
make you a hardscrabble sample
in crystalline circles.
Pose without regard
for those seeing eyes.
Leak a happy cadence:
your veins attitude
piggyback a shining lunacy
in executive wards.
Humming the blues.
No words penetrate pens.
Wick a nascent posture:
Your impossible scaling
gives a fractured example
to April’s turn.
Climb high to dive -
the chance updraft may catch.
* * *
I borrowed a dozen words from Read Write Poem’s Wordle today. (Leaking, cadence, backward, lunacy, wicked, veins, specimens, nascent, impossible, crystalline, piggybanks – which I changed to piggyback – and hardscrabble. Thanks for the words, Nicole.)
I also borrowed Nathan’s skeleton-using-a-horoscope idea (which is the first stanza) and his method of changing words in subsequent stanzas. It felt like those stanzas were “calls” needing a response, so I added the 2-line stanzas.
What sign are you? I’m an unemployed Aries. Who is not sure this NaPoWriMo thing is a good idea. Anymore. (At this point I always wonder: Was it ever?)
One must always keep your humor(s) when participating in NaPoWriMo.
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I iike the tight focus and the call and response form. The words weave in very naturally.
The couplets are great and added so much to the rest of the poem.
I’ve been reading about Dana and Nathan’s skeleton poems for a while, and your results are giving me an extra push towards trying it. Fascinating results from the supplied word list!
I like how you morph the horoscope into a real song of life. Zesty, and so you. There’s almost a Gerard Manly Hopkins-type beat here, that I also hear in some of your other poems too.
I know what you mean about questioning these thirty poems in thirty days. After a while it begins to feel like poetry soup. Mishmash soup. I’m blathering, somebody get the hook.
Thank you all for reading and commenting.
The skeleton is an intriguing form. I don’t always like the results, but it gets my poetry head working. Like push-ups. Tough but they work.
Sad to say I don’t know GMH’s work, although his name is quite familiar. So I have new homework, which I love. I love tracking.
C– you don’t blather. :-)
I like what you did with my (donated) words. Good write.
Thanks, Nicole!