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!)
Written this Tuesday morning while listening to the music that follows…
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I started this with the line about the wheat stalk. I don’t know why, but I went with it anyway…
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I wrote this earlier today, after learning about the new Ruby Throat album. This poem can be read two ways: either in order, or the long lines followed by the italicized lines.
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You can’t trust everything you see…
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I should not have been surprised—Western Family products tend to be kind of gross…
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I have spent a good chunk of the day looking for places to submit poems to; this poem came out of that…
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I often wake up earlier than I’d like…
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Today was an editing-and-errands day, so this is the only poem I wrote today…
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Haven’t done a verbless poem for a while…
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