Here is my poem for Day 17 using the POETRYisEVERYTHING prompt: Lots of three-syllable words, using this form:
Line 1 three-syllable word
Line 2 three words, two of them with three syllables
Line 3 six words, at least three of them with three syllables
Line 4 eight words, at least four of them with three syllables
New stanza
Line 5 six words, three with three syllables
Line 6 three words, two with three syllables
Line 7 one or two words and one three-syllable word
Dear Tuesday,
Okay, I got the cookies. But where did my files go?
Love,
Kevin
(16 April 2019)
Here is my Day 16 poem using the napowrimo.net prompt: ‘a poem that uses the form of a list to defamiliarize the mundane.’ I don’t think my poem ‘defamiliarizes’ anything, but it is a list.
Here is my poem for Day 16 using the POETRYisEVERYTHING prompt: Write a poem with four adjectives in it, then remove the adjectives and replace them with nouns. (https://chrisjarmick.wordpress.com/2019/04/14/napowrimo-prompts-for-april-15-and-april-16-plus-some-prompt-poems/)
Harder than it sounds. I have included the original adjectives with strikethroughs, with the replacement noun following. In the first line of the first stanza, I added a word after the original noun to make the substitution work.
Yes, I left another alone, as it is technically a determiner. (I looked it up to make sure).
Here we are, halfway through this year’s National Poetry Writing Month—a new poem each day for the 30 days of April.
Dear Monday,
Tax day. Bleh!
Love,
Kevin
(15 April 2019)
Here is my Day 15 poem using the napowrimo.net prompt: a dramatic monologue. I don’t know if my poem counts, but it’s a true story, and it really did feel like a scene from a Japanese drama.
Here is my poem for Day 15 using the POETRYisEVERYTHING prompt: a poem in which half the lines, including the last line, are borrowed from a book or long magazine article. (https://chrisjarmick.wordpress.com/2019/04/14/napowrimo-prompts-for-april-15-and-april-16-plus-some-prompt-poems/)
I chose excerpts from the Bill Nelson interview in issue 1.2 (Indian Summer 1993) of Fond Affexxions. (I hate Etsy, but there is a copy listed for sale there, if you want to take a look: https://www.etsy.com/listing/174753303/fond-affexxions-magazine-fanzine-no-12.) Lines 1, 3, 5 (after the ‘and’), 7, 9, and 12 are taken from the interview. I particularly liked the phrase I used for the last line, so I made sure to keep it, even though it meant ending the poem with a huge non-sequitur.
Dear Sunday,
Good morning. Where’s the coffee?
Love,
Kevin
(14 April 2019)
Here is my Day 14 poem using the napowrimo.net prompt: a poem incorporating homophones, homographs, and homonyms. I probably should have waited until first thing in the morning instead of writing just before bed (the napowrimo.net prompt goes live at 9 PM Pacific time), because this poem (as such) is just silly.
Ordinary Average Thoughts 