Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to write a landay. Poetry Magazine describes the landay as ‘an oral and often anonymous scrap of song created by and for mostly illiterate people: the more than twenty million Pashtun women who span the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.’ It is a couplet, with the first line made up of nine syllables, the second, thirteen.
April 2015
Dear Sunday…
Dear Sunday,
Good morning, o Sunday! So many possibilities—how shall we spend the day?
Love,
Kevin
(19 April 2015)
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…
Dear Saturday…
Dear Saturday,
Welcome back. You’re looking quite fine today.
Love,
Kevin
(18 April 2015)
Dear Friday…
Dear Friday,
It feels sort of like the weekend already. Can it be?
Love,
Kevin
(17 April 2015)
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…
Open mic terzanelle #1 (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to write a terzanelle. After three attempts, I kind of like it, though I have not quite hit upon the right subject for it yet. In any event, this poem is my second attempt at the form.
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 16: Science poem (a poem)
For Day 16, I went with the Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt, which was to write a science poem…
Dear Thursday…
Dear Thursday,
Okay, this is a little better…
Love,
Kevin
(16 April 2015)
Unarmed #2 (a poem)
Today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt is to pick an adjective, make it the title of your poem…[then] write your poem.
Ordinary Average Thoughts 