Finding Eldorado [Poetry: Anytime, Anyplace…]

Poetry: Anytime, Anyplace, About Anything – Finding Eldorado

By, Donna M. Monnig

Finding Eldorado

Sadly contrite

A cowardly knight

In moonshine and sun’s shadow

Had sat awhile

Being lazy in style

Having found Eldorado

He would die young

This coward unsung

His story but a mere shadow

He would die on the ground

None knew he had found

The land of Eldorado

He’d been lazy at length

Losing all of his strength

From pillaging in the shadow

Rich he would be

He’d thought with glee

Possessing the land of Eldorado

Over alligators

In the lagoon

Down an alleyway of shadow

Lying on his side

He drunkenly died

In his mind, he was in Eldorado.

Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt was to rewrite a poem so that every word in a line meant the opposite of what it did in the original poem. I didn’t follow the prompt exactly, but I did rewrite Edgar Allan Poe’s “Eldorado.”

NaPoWriMo prompt: Day 30

About Donna M. Monnig

Donna M. Monnig is a published poet, aspiring novelist, freelance writer, a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, and is a cowgirl at heart.

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2 Responses to Finding Eldorado [Poetry: Anytime, Anyplace…]

Kathie says:

April 30, 2013 at 6:58 PM

Now I will have to go find Eldorado and read it for myself! This was a fun prompt! It seems you did a good job with it and still told a good story! P.S. I like horses too, as well as birds!

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- Donna M. Monnig says:
  
  April 30, 2013 at 7:49 PM
  
  “Eldorado” is one of my favorite poems, I highly reccommend it (I even love the Spanish translation of it)! Of course, pretty much any of Edgar Allan Poe’s poems are well worth reading. My rewritten version is not comparable to the original, but like you said, it was a fun prompt. Glad you liked my version, let me know what you think of the original.
  God Bless,
  Donna
  
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