GloPoWriMo Day Twenty-Seven


Howard Duplex

Yesterday I watched a documental on Howard Ashman's music and life.

As I supposed, I ended up really inspired --


I was inspired to grab my notebook and shape up

This musical I was working on, which was initially inspired


By my mother, who, seeing my sister and I inspired,

Singing musicals, she asked us to write


(Or maybe challenged us to write) a Christian musical and since then

I've been trying but I struggle with what to write about


What to write about? What's the audience I aim at?

If I wrote for my mother, I would censure myself


And by censuring myself, it would be a hypocritical musical

And that goes completely against my values and beliefs.


Therefore, I questioned my ways and my beliefs just because

Yesterday I watched a documental on Howard Ashman's music and life



This is the poem I didn't publish yesterday because I couldn't make the collage I wanted for this one -- but here it is!

Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a “duplex.” A “duplex” is a variation on the sonnet, developed by the poet Jericho Brown. Here’s one of his first “Duplex” poems, and here is a duplex written by the poet I.S. Jones. Like a typical sonnet, a duplex has fourteen lines. It’s organized into seven, two-line stanzas. The second line of the first stanza is echoed by (but not identical to) the first line of the second stanza, the second line of the second stanza is echoed by (but not identical to) the first line of the third stanza, and so on. The last line of the poem is the same as the first.

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