Going back a few days to use the Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt for day 23, which was to write a(n) ‘historic’ poem. We happen to be witnessing lots of history at the moment…
2015 April PAD Challenge
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 29: Constantinople (a poem)
Today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt is to write a ‘what nobody knows’ poem. I can definitely say that nobody knows the answer to the question posed in this poem…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 27: The next day, two years later (a poem)
Today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt is to write a ‘looking back’ poem. Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a hay(na)ku. My poem inadvertently combines the two.
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 26: Lonely madcap (a poem)
Today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt is to take a couple of the words invented by Shakespeare, then write a poem with those words as the title.
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 25: The false comfort of five thousand miles (a poem)
Today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt is to write an ‘across the sea poem’. One thing I will say for their prompts: They’re not very exciting, but they do give you a lot of latitude…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 24: That moment (a poem)
Today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt is to write a ‘moment poem’…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 22: What if the earth just has a fever? (a poem)
Every prompt today seems to be an Earth Day prompt: napowrimo.net, Writer’s Digest, The Daily Poet… The first thing I always think of is George Carlin’s ‘The planet is fine’ routine, so that had some influence on my Earth Day poem…
My ambition, the great mystery (a poem)
Today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt is to take the phrase, My (blank), the (blank), fill in the blanks to create the title of the poem, then write the poem. I combined this prompt with the terzanelle from the other day…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 18: Ground out (a poem)
Today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt turned out to be a tricky one (I accidentally let a stray ‘e’ slip in)—though that may have been mostly to my choice of vowels…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 17: A late autumn evening in 1982 (a poem)
For Day 17, I went with the Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt, which was to write a swing poem…
Ordinary Average Thoughts 