Sometimes, falling asleep with the TV on affects my dreams…
Poetry
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 21: Erasure poem (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to create an erasure poem, in which you take existing text and erase words to make a poem from what you leave untouched. I used page 35 of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
My ambition, the great mystery (a poem)
Today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt is to take the phrase, My (blank), the (blank), fill in the blanks to create the title of the poem, then write the poem. I combined this prompt with the terzanelle from the other day…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 20: Knowledge isn’t everything (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to ‘write a poem that states the things you know.’
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 19: What is a picture really worth? (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to write a landay. Poetry Magazine describes the landay as ‘an oral and often anonymous scrap of song created by and for mostly illiterate people: the more than twenty million Pashtun women who span the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.’ It is a couplet, with the first line made up of nine syllables, the second, thirteen.
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 18: Ground out (a poem)
Today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt turned out to be a tricky one (I accidentally let a stray ‘e’ slip in)—though that may have been mostly to my choice of vowels…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 17: A late autumn evening in 1982 (a poem)
For Day 17, I went with the Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt, which was to write a swing poem…
Open mic terzanelle #1 (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to write a terzanelle. After three attempts, I kind of like it, though I have not quite hit upon the right subject for it yet. In any event, this poem is my second attempt at the form.
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 16: Science poem (a poem)
For Day 16, I went with the Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt, which was to write a science poem…
Unarmed #2 (a poem)
Today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt is to pick an adjective, make it the title of your poem…[then] write your poem.
Ordinary Average Thoughts 