This month Women Writing for (a) Change-Bloomington poets are participating in National Poetry Writing Month.  Every day we will offer up a new  poem by a writer in our community.  Check back after 6:00pm for the Prompt of the Day and the selected resulting poem.

Day 5: Today we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that incorporates at least one of the following: (1) the villanelle form, (2) lines taken from an outside text, and/or (3) phrases that oppose each other in some way. If you can use two elements, great – and if you can do all three, wow!

Holes by Bev Slattery Hartford

(A villanelle with a nod to Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger)

There’s a hole in the universe
Drilled by the laser beam of hate
And lubricated by a sluicing of fear