Photo by JM Olivieri
Saturday afternoon three of my fellow Living Poets and I wrote poems on demand at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences’ Rhythm of Race event. We only worked for a little over an hour but earned $41 for the museum by writing to the following prompts offered by our customers:
- aloha
- biotechnology
- broken
- butterfly
- chaplain
- complexity & sin
- compromise
- emerald
- faith
- fluorescent
- happiness
- hope
- Michael Jackson
- octopus
- oyster
- patience
- paws
- perseverance
- plant
- poetry
- precious
- science
- second anniversary
- soul
- swizzle stick
- siblings
- Themyscira
- vindicated
- wonder
- you
My favorite was writing “Science” and while I don’t remember it all, I closed with the lines “Science is the art of learning. Science reveals the poetry of life.”
Bartholomew Barker, Poet 
I love that line!
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Thanks! I love the lines at the end of your Ars Poetica poem, which we wrote for the same young lady, something about the truth no textbook can shout. Do you remember?
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You need to remind the people submitting prompts that the sign says, “$1 + ONE word”. I noticed a few offenders. Keep up the wordsmithing.
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Don’t worry, we charge $2 for a two word prompt. For $5 I’ll write a poem to an offensive word prompt.
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I miss the poetry on demand events. They were so fun. And Michael Jackson as a word—nice. Great seeing a pic of JeanMarie.
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We miss you and your on demand poetry too.
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Very cool! Well done! 😊👍
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Thank you, I’m glad you approve.
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