Having used my Day 3 poem as an opportunity to vent, I can get back to my normal angsty poems. The napowrimo.net prompt for day 4 is to write a poem based on an image from a dream. Woof. (Note: I don’t know who did the painting in the featured image above, but it’s hanging on the wall of the bedroom in my mother’s house.)
Life
Dear Friday…
Dear Friday,
Rain? Okay. I’m not going anywhere anyway.
Love,
Kevin
(3 April 2020)
National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 3
The napowrimo.net prompt for day 3 is to make a list of 10 words, use the Rhyme Zone website to find two to four rhyming or similar sounding words, and then use the assembled list of words in a poem. I started with virus, muck, vomit, infect, bronzed, conjunction, and a few other words (I didn’t save the list).
In my poem (as such), I give vent to some of my many frustrations over our current situation.
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National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 2
The napowrimo.net prompt for day 2: ‘write a poem about a specific place — a particular house or store or school or office. Try to incorporate concrete details, like street names, distances (“three and a half blocks from the post office”), the types of trees or flowers, the color of the shirts on the people you remember there.’ Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 1
I promised myself I wasn’t going to write a(nother) coronavirus poem. I mostly didn’t. Today’s entry is off-prompt; it was instead inspired by Stephen King’s April Fool’s Day tweet.
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This is what it’s like (a poem)
I promised myself I wasn’t going to write a(nother) coronavirus poem, but the NaPoWriMo early-bird prompts today all seem to want poems about (or somehow referring to) birds. So much for promises…
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Dear Monday…
Dear Monday,
You know you’re not Sunday, right?
Love,
Kevin
(30 March 2020)
Dear Sunday…
Dear Sunday,
You sure are taking your time today.
Love,
Kevin
(29 March 2020)
Dear Saturday…
Dear Saturday,
I know you wanted to pretend to be another day—but at least you don’t have to worry about traffic.
Love,
Kevin
(28 March 2020)
Quarantanamo (a poem)
I promised myself I wasn’t going to write a coronavirus poem. So much for promises…
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