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.

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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.

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