Day5: Twenty little poetry projects

Okay, so Day 5 challenge looks to be most difficult and most fun. While you can read the details on the NaPoWriMo blogs, here is quick summary of what I need to do:

1. Begin the poem with a metaphor.
2. Say something specific but utterly preposterous.
3. Use at least one image for each of the five senses, either in succession or scattered randomly throughout the poem.
4. Use one example of synesthesia (mixing the senses).
5. Use the proper name of a person and the proper name of a place.
6. Contradict something you said earlier in the poem.
7. Change direction or digress from the last thing you said.
8. Use a word (slang?) you’ve never seen in a poem.
9. Use an example of false cause-effect logic.
10. Use a piece of talk you’ve actually heard (preferably in dialect and/or which you don’t understand).
11. Create a metaphor using the following construction: “The (adjective) (concrete noun) of (abstract noun) . . .”
12. Use an image in such a way as to reverse its usual associative qualities.
13. Make the persona or character in the poem do something he or she could not do in “real life.”
14. Refer to yourself by nickname and in the third person.
15. Write in the future tense, such that part of the poem seems to be a prediction.
16. Modify a noun with an unlikely adjective.
17. Make a declarative assertion that sounds convincing but that finally makes no sense.
18. Use a phrase from a language other than English.
19. Make a non-human object say or do something human (personification).
20. Close the poem with a vivid image that makes no statement, but that “echoes” an image from earlier in the poem.

So, let me see, if I can meet the challenge:

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Note: For ease of reading and avoid clutter of quotation marks:
Blue text is spoken by the humming bird
Green text is spoken by Lily, the lily flower
and Black is by Yours Truly.

A Humming Bird and a Lily

1. Silence is golden, but talk is cheap

2. The humming bird was telling this to lily

3.a. Your fragrance is in a beauty sleep

3.b. See, your skin is now glowing really

3.c.  Shivering with pleasure, for her lover's first touch

3.d.  Sweetness of that maiden kiss
3.e.  Your leaves will jingle just so much
4.     Music will be, a touch of bliss

5. Am I, asked Lily, "in the Garden of Eden?

6.  I am not your  newly bride                          

7. & 8.  you gotta gimme, a good reason        
I would like this clarified:                        
    
    

 9. My petals blush, whenever you dance  
10. How you doin' ?, tell me your moves   
11. The melodic strings of romance            
12. strumming the ripened tunes of youth

  

      Knowing now, that the moment was right

13. Humming bird just got down on a knee

14. Anks and all were so happy at this sight

The heavens proclaimed this decree:

15. "The Earth shall shower blessings,

16. 'n' there shall be an awesome blossom

17. Bridesmaids to wear fancy dressings

18. crooning in the breeze: "Ye raatein, ye mausam..."

19. The bird kissed lily on her petal

20. and rhythm of jingles were heard around

I saw the flower shiver so gentle

when she saw, the sun go down.

© Ankush Agarwal

05-Apr-2020