Today’s entry in the Writer’s Digest 2015 April PAD Challenge involves writing a ‘things-not-as-they-appear’ poem…
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NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 6: The window of consciousness that greets me at 4:30 in the morning (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt involves writing an aubade. I’m not familiar enough with this type of poem to know if this one qualifies, but it’s what I came up with. Since it was 5:30-ish 7:15 a.m. and I was only 3/4 awake, I was just happy that I half remembered the first couple of lines that popped in my head long enough to write them down in some form…
Sunday mornings at Grandma’s house (a poem)
Today’s prompt in The Daily Poet by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano is to write a poem that uses I remember to begin each line. I wrote such a poem a few weeks ago, but decided to give this challenge a try nonetheless. This time, I thought back to Sunday morning breakfasts at my grandparents’ house when I was a kid…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 5: Political Science (c. 2015) (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is a bit tricky. It involves taking an Emily Dickinson poem, stripping out all the line breaks, re-breaking the lines, and adding and subtracting words. I chose to use her poem The World is not Conclusion, turning it into a commentary on the current state of American politics…
The woman in my dreams (a poem)
Using the prompt from Day 4 of the Writer’s Digest 2015 April PAD Challenge to continue exploring last night’s dream…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 4: Break the code—read the message (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to write a ‘loveless’ love poem—i.e., one that does not use the word love and does not include the usual trappings associated with love poems. As luck would have it, I had a dream last night. I wrote two poems trying to capture what I remembered of the dream; this poem is a composite of the two—appropriate, since the woman in the dream seemed to be a composite of two or three different women. [N.B., I have swapped titles with the other poem I wrote about this dream, after realizing that each title fit the other poem better.]
Alarm test signals (a poem)
Today’s prompt from the Writer’s Digest 2015 April PAD Challenge is to ‘write a machine poem.’
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 3: Feline sibling rivalry (a poem)
Working with today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt, I attempted a fourteener…
The revolution will not be televised (2015 edition) (a poem)
I was sitting in a waiting room when the first line of this poem popped into my head…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 2: Secrets (a poem)
For today’s prompt, I went with the Writer’s Digest 2015 April PAD Challenge: ‘write a secret poem.’
Ordinary Average Thoughts 