Category: Musings

The napowrimo.net prompt for day 7 is to write a poem based on a news article. Since 90% of the news these days is about the same thing, I chose to approach it from a different angle. 1 No news is not good news now It is the horror of anticipation when you don’t want [...]

The napowrimo.net prompt for day 6 is to write an ekphrastic poem based on Hieronymous Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. I went with the wolf-like creature playing the drum… Beat on the drum Beat on the drum Beat on the drum The Executioner is everywhere his presence both unseen and manifest in creatures known and [...]

The napowrimo.net prompt for day 5 is to use Jim Simmerman’s Twenty Little Poetry Projects prompt to write a poem. I didn’t use all twenty, but otherwise didn’t do too badly. I was partly inspired by the coffin photo from an article in The Stranger, which got me—again—on the subject of covid-19… The world’s gone [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]