My Day 29 poem for National Poetry Writing Month uses the prompt on Napowrimo.net—which involves choosing a ‘very specific, concrete noun’ from a favorite poem, doing some free writing based on that word, then incorporating that all into a new poem. I chose to work from the word bones, which I drew from a poem by S. R. Mason, Dry skin, cold hands—I live in upside down houses and draw X’s on my tongue. Continue reading
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National Poetry Writing Month 2017, Day 28
My Day 28 poem for National Poetry Writing Month uses the prompt on Napowrimo.net—to write a poem using Skeltonic verse. Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2017, Day 27
My Day 27 poem for National Poetry Writing Month uses the prompt on Napowrimo.net—to write a poem exploring the sense of taste. Since my Day 26 was a long-ish poem, I wanted to make my Day 27 poem short—hence the haiku… Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2017, Day 26
My day 26 poem for National Poetry Writing Month sort of uses the prompt on Napowrimo.net—to write a poem about ‘a particular object or place from the point of view of some far-off, future scientist’… Continue reading
The gigantic WTF poem of permutations
As you’ll see from the photo, I wrote this poem in a grid-like form. However, I did not write it in the order you see. Continue reading
I just have to say this real quick-like…
As I sometimes do, I was writing poems while waiting for tonight’s open mic to start. After one or two ‘ regular’ poems, I thought I would do something different: I filled a whole page of my ginormous sketchbook/journal with a single poem.
But here’s how I did it: I wrote alternate lines from the top down and bottom up of the page—and alternated sides of the page as well. The result is that some ‘stanzas’ as they appear on the page make sense, while others make no sense at all. I have noooooo idea how I am going to arrange this one when I transfer it to my present Word file…
(24 April 2017)
National Poetry Writing Month 2017, Day 25
My day 25 poem for National Poetry Writing Month sort of uses the prompt on Napowrimo.net—to write ‘a poem that explores a small, defined space.’ I chose, as the title suggests, my head. I also used a form of sorts—I can’t assume that it is entirely original, but I came up with it on my own—in which the last two lines of each stanza combined contain the same number of words as the first line. Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2017, Day 24
My day 24 poem for National Poetry Writing Month sort of uses the prompt on Napowrimo.net—to write an ekphrastic poem about the stuff found in the margins of medieval manuscripts. I made a couple of attempts, but quickly got bored. So, this is what I ended up doing: Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2017, Day 23
My day 23 poem for National Poetry Writing Month uses the prompt on Napowrimo.net—to write a double elevenie, which is (duh!) an elevenie with two stanzas. Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2017, Day 22
My day 22 poem for National Poetry Writing Month doesn’t use the prompt on Napowrimo.net (because I’m not interested in figuring out how to write a georgic right now)—but still sticks with the Earth Day theme (sort of)… Continue reading
Ordinary Average Thoughts 