Today’s prompt:
[W]rite a ten-line poem in which each line is a lie.
Life
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #15 (April 15, 2014)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt was giving me fits. The ottava rima that was last year’s Day 8 prompt worked out well, as it coincided with news of the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. For some reason, though, attempting a terza rima just had me encountering trite sentences and dead-end rhymes.
So, I decided to switch tack, and go with the 15th item on the list of prompts at PoeWar:
Write a tanka. Feel free to write more than one if you like.
Dear Tuesday…
Dear Tuesday,
Seems a bit chilly this morning. That’s okay—I’ll let everyone else worry today.
Love,
Kevin
(15 April 2014)
Dear Monday…
Dear Monday,
I’ll have to remember not to do that next time.
Love,
Kevin
(15 April 2014)
Dear Sunday…
Dear Sunday,
I almost let this one slip away. It was fun.
Love,
Kevin
(15 April 2014)
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #14, Part 2 (April 14, 2014)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt:
[W]rite a poem in which every sentence, except for the last one, is in the form of a question.
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #14 (April 14, 2014)
Today’s prompt comes from Day 14 of the 2014 April PAD Challenge at Writer’s Digest:
[T]ake the phrase ‘If I Were (blank),’ replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then write the poem.
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #13 (April 13, 2014)
Today’s prompt comes from the Poetry Prompts page at PoeWar.com: Write a poem using Skeltonic Verse.
Plundering the Archives #6
The last of the four live performances I did in 1996–97. By the end of this piece (the second of two pieces performed on 31 May 1997), one of the four paying audience members had fallen asleep on a sofa that served as some of the seating in the Anomalous Records performance space. Eric (Mr. Anomalous Records himself) asked me if I’d been listening to Nux Vomica. To this day, I’m not sure if he was being complimentary or dismissive (or both)…
(12 April 2014)
Spam comment poem #1
Since we’re in the midst of National Poetry Writing Month, I thought an interesting exercise would be to incorporate some of the spam comments that my account attracts into a poem. Apart from fixing some of the intentional typos (e.g., thijnk), and introducing the extra line breaks to make them more ‘poem-like’, I’ve used the text as is: Continue reading
Ordinary Average Thoughts 