Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to write a poem that addresses itself or some aspect of its self [sic].
Poetry
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 14: After the rain, everything looked different (a poem)
Today’s prompt in The Daily Poet by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano is to write a poem starting with After the rain, it all looked different. Close enough…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 13: Confession poem #1 (a poem)
For Day 13, I went with the Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt, which was to write a confession poem…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 12: What happens when I try to get up earlier (a poem)
I did not follow any specific prompts for Day 12. Still, this poem feels somewhat like the damage poem suggested in today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 11: The library on a Saturday afternoon in April (a poem)
I did not follow any prompts for Day 11. Instead, I went with a slice-of-life observation while I was out and about…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 10: Tangled threads (a poem)
Ugh! This was one of those days when I found it hard to get going. I was going to write an abecedarian poem, but I didn’t want to force anything, or have to resort to the ‘X marks the spot’ cliché.
Seattle haiku (a poem)
A poem from yesterday about a sunny spring day in Seattle…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 9: Thinking about what I write versus what you see (a poem)
I don’t like any of the writing prompts I have seen today, so I am going with my first poem of the day, which is a brief contemplation about poetry…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 8: Return of the Man in Black (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to write a palinode, a retraction of something in an earlier poem. I opted for a follow-up to my earlier poem, The man in Reno vs the Man in Black.
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 7: A dream I never want to see again (a poem)
Today’s prompt in The Daily Poet by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano is to write a backwards acrostic—that is, an acrostic in which the last letter of each line spells out a word or phrase. As it turned out, I had a horrible night’s sleep last night (with ugly dreams to match), so picking a word—insomnia—was not difficult…
Ordinary Average Thoughts 