The napowrimo.net prompt for day 12 is to write a triolet. I adapted the titles of chapters from my mom’s junior-high math book for the A lines. Continue reading

The napowrimo.net prompt for day 11 is to ‘write a poem in which one or more flowers take on specific meanings.’ Well, I didn’t quite do that… Continue reading

The napowrimo.net prompt for day 10 is to write a modified haiku (called hay(na)ku—ugh): the first line is one word, the second is two words, and the third is three words. It can stand alone, or several can be chained together. Continue reading

I don’t like concrete poems, so the napowrimo.net prompt for day 9 was out of the question. Instead, I went with the day 9 prompt from Chris Jarmick: make a list of five to ten things with spots, and write a poem that answers a question about each of them. I’m not sure mine quite works that way, but my list consisted of (in order of appearance in the poem): a graph, an old person’s hands, a leopard, teenagers, eyes, some households with dogs, a stained t-shirt, the saying ‘X marks the spot’, the Great Red Spot (of Jupiter), and (some of) Kusama Yayoi(’s art). Continue reading

The napowrimo.net prompt for day 8 is to use the line from someone else’s poem as the seed for a new poem. I chose the line ‘your pocket is full of rain’, from the label of the cassette in the featured image above, by Katie Jane Garside. Continue reading