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National Poetry Writing Month: Day #21 (April 21, 2014)

2014/04/21 — Leave a comment

For today’s entry, I went with one of the prompts from Kelli Russell Agodon‘s list:

Write a poem with the opposite hand that you write with, or, if you type your poems on the computer, use only one hand to type.

Then I applied one of the random prompts on Language is a Virus:

Systematically derange the language: Write a work consisting only of prepositional phrases, or add a gerund to every line of an already existing work.

I then chose the bits that worked from the two versions, and combined them into today’s poem.

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National Poetry Writing Month: Day #20 (April 20, 2014)

2014/04/20

Family poems seem to be all the rage among poetry prompts today; both NaPoWrimo.net and Writer’s Digest suggest writing a ‘family poem’ for today’s prompt. (Okay, that’s only two. Still…)

Number 20 on LitBridge’s list of prompts involves imagining ‘living 300 or more years ago’, with ‘the same personality and body’. (Yeah, I can’t see myself in the 18th century.)

Kelli Russell Agodon’s prompt for day 20 suggests removing my shoes and writing a poem celebrating my feet. (I hate my feet.)

Once again, PoeWar comes to the rescue. The twentieth prompt on the list is:

Write a poem that begins with a line of advice or instruction, such as don’t give up or take a left at the willow tree.

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An actual articulate spam comment (an aside)

2014/04/19 — 1 Comment

This spam comment was waiting for me this morning:

したがって、あなたが唯一の事業費のために厳密にあなたのビジネスのクレジットカードを使用するだろうことを確認してください。あなたがショッピングモールにいるか、あなたの食料品を買うか、またはあなたの家族と一緒に外食ときには使用しないでください。覚えて、あなたのビジネスのクレジットカードはあなたのビジネスのお手伝いをするためのツールである必要があり、個人的な気まぐれに使用してはいけません。

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National Poetry Writing Month: Day #19 (April 19, 2014)

2014/04/19 — 1 Comment

Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is kind of a long one, so I’ll condense and paraphrase:

[W]rite a poem using one or more of the sea shell names listed.

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