My Day 3 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to create a Personal Universal Deck (details in the linked post) and then use it to write a poem. My poem is based on these words: ambivalence, petrichor, tumble (I also drew ‘shout’ and ‘dance’, but they didn’t fit the shape the poem was taking).
My Day 2 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to write a poem about one’s own road not taken.
It is National Poetry Writing Month again! My Day 1 poem is inspired by the animated video for Sun Ra Arkestra’s ‘Seductive Fantasy’, as directed by the prompt.
My warm-up for NaPoWriMo 2021 is this ekphrastic poem based on Egon Schiele’s Self-Portrait (1911).
Because it occurs to me that there is a connection that I have pushed so far to the back of my mind that I don’t remember what it is.
I saw one of those pharmaceutical ads on TV today. It opened with people playing at a swimming pool. The first line of this poem was my first reaction to the opening images.
I usually either make a mix or write something. This time, I wrote something.
My recent adventures in sound inspired the title.
A few years ago, I wrote a poem with a similar image. I think I got it right this time.
Ordinary Average Thoughts 