For Day 9, I combine the two prompts I have been using:
The prompt provided by poet (and bookstore owner) Chris Jarmick on his blog, POETRYisEVERYTHING, calls for a poem that uses anaphora.
The napowromo.net prompt calls for ‘a Sei Shonagon-style list of “things”’.
(And I forgot to update the title of this post. It is fixed now. What will I do tomorrow? Stay tuned!)
Here I use the napowrimo.net prompt: basically, to think of the jargon of a particular job or profession and incorporate it into a poem.
I chose to write about my last contract, in which problems with my nemesis at the client we were working for led to my contract ending several months early—and my nemesis being laid off herself at the start of my final week on the job…
Here I use the prompt provided by poet (and bookstore owner) Chris Jarmick on his blog, POETRYisEVERYTHING.
The task for Day 8 is to write two eight-line poems—one that excludes eight letters of the alphabet, one that consists of only eight letters. This was harder than I thought it would be.
Dear Monday,
Did Mercury change its mind and go retrograde again?
Love,
Kevin
(8 April 2019)
Dear Sunday,
I know—May flowers. But March got me used to the sunshine again, so I’ll need a better explanation this time.
Love,
Kevin
(7 April 2019)
Here I use the napowrimo.net prompt: ‘a poem of gifts and joy. What would you give yourself, if you could have anything? What would you give someone else?’
Here I use the prompt provided by poet (and bookstore owner) Chris Jarmick on his blog, POETRYisEVERYTHING.
The task for Day 7 is to write two septolets—one formal (16 syllables in seven lines, 1–2–3–4–3–2–1), one informal (14 words in seven lines, with no more than three words in a line).
Dear Saturday,
Again with the rain…
Love,
Kevin
(6 April 2019)
Here I use the napowrimo.net prompt: ‘a poem that emphasizes the power of if.’
Here I use the prompt provided by poet (and bookstore owner) Chris Jarmick on his blog, POETRYisEVERYTHING.
The task for Day 6 is to create odd combinations of words for colors, then use three to five of them in a poem.
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Listen to your inner self..it has all the answers..
Kicking Guilt in the Balls One Day at a Time.
Thoughts and images by Omar Willey
Monica Carroll
Poems by Iris Orpi
