April 2019

National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #18 (pt. 1)

2019/04/18 — 2 Comments

Here is my poem for Day 18 using the POETRYisEVERYTHING prompt: If you had to have one word tattooed on your forehead, which word would you choose? Include that word in a poem three times; try making it the third word of every third line in a poem 12 lines or longer.

I could not think of a word I would want on my forehead—not least of all because I would not want that word to limit how anyone might see me. And if I could think of one, it would either be in teeny-tiny letters in the middle of an eyebrow, or in invisible ink. For the purposes of this poem, I went with the invisible ink variant…

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National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #17 (pt. 1)

2019/04/17 — Leave a comment

Here is my poem for Day 17 using the POETRYisEVERYTHING prompt: Lots of three-syllable words, using this form:

Line 1  three-syllable word
Line 2  three words, two of them with three syllables
Line 3  six words, at least three of them with three syllables
Line 4  eight words, at least four of them with three syllables

New stanza
Line 5  six words, three with three syllables
Line 6 three words, two with three syllables
Line 7  one or two words and one three-syllable word

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National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #16 (pt. 1)

2019/04/16 — 1 Comment

Here is my poem for Day 16 using the POETRYisEVERYTHING prompt: Write a poem with four adjectives in it, then remove the adjectives and replace them with nouns. (https://chrisjarmick.wordpress.com/2019/04/14/napowrimo-prompts-for-april-15-and-april-16-plus-some-prompt-poems/)

Harder than it sounds. I have included the original adjectives with strikethroughs, with the replacement noun following. In the first line of the first stanza, I added a word after the original noun to make the substitution work.

Yes, I left another alone, as it is technically a determiner. (I looked it up to make sure).

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