#NaPoWriMo Day 9 and, owing to ill health and another day of sleeping for what turned out to be 14 hours(!), I’m catching up a little frantically today, knowing how difficult it gets if you let it slip and keep saying “Oh, I can catch up – it’ll be fine! So, given an interesting combination to work with by my Prompt-o-matic Spreadsheetatron™, I’ve been writing a piece of alliterative verse inspired by Max Devrient. Yeah, I hadn’t heard of him either, and it took getting an automated translation of the German Wikipedia page, which is (unsurprisingly) packed far more with information, to find out enough to make this piece, where I decided that “alliterative” in this instance meant “all the words have to begin with either M or D”. (If you’re keen to find out more about this fascinating chap, this page is quite the treasure trove, including some delightful photos I wasn’t sure if I had the rights to use!)
Remember that, if you’re a subscriber to my Patreon, you can hear a recording of this piece (and the eight preceding it) there. The link to the relevant post is here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/maximal-drama-155321764
My mother made me
delve deep, destiny’s
metric demonstrated.
Disappointments dog
men mirroring me.
Dented masks; dull drips.
Dynamic mastery
marries, denied divorce,
making do, multiplying.
Deflected, movies magnify
my dramatic definition,
monk making much money.
Deep down, darkness
deals death; daughters
dispense desperate doom.
Diverted, my midwinter
directs, monarchs match
my merits dutifully.
Döbling decorated,
my moniker delineates
driving. Magnificent!
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| Max Devrient as “Zawisch” in Grillparzer's “King Ottokar’s Fortune and End” at the Vienna Burgtheater, courtesy of Wikipedia |
