The napowrimo.net prompt for day 16 is to ‘write a poem of over-the-top compliments. Pick a person, place, or thing you love, and praise it in the most effusive way you can.’ Not feeling terribly effusive today… Continue reading
Poetry
National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 15
The napowrimo.net prompt for day 15 is to ‘write a poem inspired by your favorite kind of music. Try to recreate the sounds and timing of a pop ballad, a jazz improvisation, or a Bach fugue. That could mean incorporating refrains, neologisms and flights of whimsy, or repeating/inverting lines or ideas – whatever your chosen musical form would seem to require!’ I’ve been listening to a lot of early Orb lately, so… Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 14
The napowrimo.net prompt for day 14 is to ‘write a poem that deals with the poems, poets, and other people who inspired you to write poems. These could be poems/poets/people that you strive to be like, or even poems, poets, and people that you strive not to be like.’ Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 13
The napowrimo.net prompt for day 13 is to ‘write a non-apology for the things you’ve stolen.’ I approached this from a slightly different angle; I can’t say there was theft involved, but I was definitely on the receiving end of more generosity than was perhaps warranted. So it’s more an accounting than an apology, non- or otherwise. Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 12
The napowrimo.net prompt for day 12 is to write a triolet. I adapted the titles of chapters from my mom’s junior-high math book for the A lines. Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 11
The napowrimo.net prompt for day 11 is to ‘write a poem in which one or more flowers take on specific meanings.’ Well, I didn’t quite do that… Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 10
The napowrimo.net prompt for day 10 is to write a modified haiku (called hay(na)ku—ugh): the first line is one word, the second is two words, and the third is three words. It can stand alone, or several can be chained together. Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 9
I don’t like concrete poems, so the napowrimo.net prompt for day 9 was out of the question. Instead, I went with the day 9 prompt from Chris Jarmick: make a list of five to ten things with spots, and write a poem that answers a question about each of them. I’m not sure mine quite works that way, but my list consisted of (in order of appearance in the poem): a graph, an old person’s hands, a leopard, teenagers, eyes, some households with dogs, a stained t-shirt, the saying ‘X marks the spot’, the Great Red Spot (of Jupiter), and (some of) Kusama Yayoi(’s art). Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 8
The napowrimo.net prompt for day 8 is to use the line from someone else’s poem as the seed for a new poem. I chose the line ‘your pocket is full of rain’, from the label of the cassette in the featured image above, by Katie Jane Garside. Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 7
The napowrimo.net prompt for day 7 is to write a poem based on a news article. Since 90% of the news these days is about the same thing, I chose to approach it from a different angle.
Ordinary Average Thoughts 