Musings
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 23: Four of Cups (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to write a poem based on the card you draw from a deck. The only deck of cards I have is a tarot deck, so…
Dear Thursday…
Dear Thursday,
Don’t you just hate those times when everything comes up at once?
Love,
Kevin
(23 April 2015)
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 22: What if the earth just has a fever? (a poem)
Every prompt today seems to be an Earth Day prompt: napowrimo.net, Writer’s Digest, The Daily Poet… The first thing I always think of is George Carlin’s ‘The planet is fine’ routine, so that had some influence on my Earth Day poem…
Dear Wednesday…
Dear Wednesday,
So we meet again…
Love,
Kevin
(22 April 2015)
A scene from the movie where real life and dreams attempt to intersect (a poem)
Sometimes, falling asleep with the TV on affects my dreams…
Dear Tuesday…
Dear Tuesday,
I can already tell this is going to be one of those sluggish days…
Love,
Kevin
(21 April 2015)
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 21: Erasure poem (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to create an erasure poem, in which you take existing text and erase words to make a poem from what you leave untouched. I used page 35 of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
My ambition, the great mystery (a poem)
Today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt is to take the phrase, My (blank), the (blank), fill in the blanks to create the title of the poem, then write the poem. I combined this prompt with the terzanelle from the other day…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 20: Knowledge isn’t everything (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to ‘write a poem that states the things you know.’
