Ignoring today’s prompt; writing a pastoral poem doesn’t interest me. Continue reading
Month: April 2013
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #21 (21 April 2013)
Ignored today’s prompt, which involved “re-writing” a poem called “Lines for the Fortune Cookies“. Not so interested in that.
Instead, I leave you with a brief impression from a function I attended last night that apparently did not get going until well after I’d left and turned in for the night… Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #20 (April 20, 2013)
Today’s prompt: write a poem using at least five of the following words:
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National Poetry Writing Month: Day #19 (April 19, 2013)
Today’s writing prompt is to write a poem in the form of a personals ad. I’m not really in a space to do that sort of thing, so I ended up taking sort of the opposite approach… Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #18 (April 18, 2013)
Today’s prompt: write a poem that begins and ends with the same word. Given the whirlwind-of-change-inspired self-reflection of the last few months, it was almost too easy. Not that the poem itself was necessarily easy, just the challenge… Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #17 (April 17, 2013)
Today’s prompt: a greeting poem. Finally, something I can get behind… Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #16 (April 16, 2013)
Decided to ignore today’s prompt. Too difficult, if I’m to be honest.
Instead, I wrote something short, prompted by the sunny weather this afternoon… Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #15 (April 15, 2013)
Decided to ignore the writing prompt; too much trouble.
I started three or four different drafts that either went nowhere, or I couldn’t take any further. Here’s the one I liked best (hated least): Continue reading
50 things I have learned
I started this last month, shortly after my birthday—but then other stuff came up, and it kind of got pushed to the side.
But, now it’s done! So! Here is… Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #14 (April 14, 2013)
Today’s prompt is to write a poem in the voice of a superhero. That’s not so much my thing, but we’ll see what happens… Continue reading