The Napowrimo.net prompt for Day 28 is to ‘draft a prose poem in the form/style of a postcard.’
Poetry
National Poetry Writing Month 2018, Day 27
The Napowrimo.net prompt for Day 27 is to pick a tarot card and write a poem about ‘the images or ideas that are associated with it’. My poem is inspired by the Two of Cups, and partly influenced by side 1 of David Sylvian’s Brilliant Trees album.
National Poetry Writing Month 2018, Day 26
The Napowrimo.net prompt for Day 26 is to write a poem that engages the five senses.
National Poetry Writing Month 2018, Day 25
The Napowrimo.net prompt for Day 25 is to write a warning label for yourself.
Bookstore Poem #229. …and the horses they rode in on
Yeah, so I didn’t get the job I was hoping for (the interview went so well!), and I needed to vent… Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2018, Day 24
The Napowrimo.net prompt for Day 24 is to write an elegy. This is always tricky for me, at least when it comes to prompts. These last five years or so, I have used poetry to mourn all sorts of things in my life—but this almost always came about as a natural response to an event or a memory. So, I opted for optimism with this poem.
National Poetry Writing Month 2018, Day 23
The Napowrimo.net prompt for Day 23 posed a bit of a challenge for me, since I spend a lot of time alone. So, as I have done a few times these last few weeks, I turned to the movie American Splendor for inspiration. I borrowed a couple of lines from the film, but mainly I adopted some of the speech patterns from both the film and the comic, and combined them with things I have either thought or said…
National Poetry Writing Month 2018, Day 22
The Napowrimo.net prompt for Day 22 brought out the contrarian in me…
National Poetry Writing Month 2018, Day 21
The Napowrimo.net prompt for Day 21 is one of those I’m not really keen on. The idea is to base the poem on the myth of Narcissus. I made the protagonist of my poem the opposite of Narcissus. The form of my poem is a modified rimas dissolutas. Normally, the corresponding line of each stanza rhymes (though the stanzas themselves do not); here, the first lines do not rhyme.
April’s not so bad (a poem)
Bonus round—because I have heard three or four references to ‘April is the cruellest month’ in the last 22 hours. Not being familiar with the work of T. S. Eliot (even though I of course know the name), I had to look it up to find out where it came from. That’s really beside the point, though, since it was the cluster of references that I am responding to. Here is my poem:
Ordinary Average Thoughts 