My Day 11 poem, based on the prompt at https://www.napowrimo.net/day-eleven-10/
Day 11
National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 11
The napowrimo.net prompt for day 11 is to ‘write a poem in which one or more flowers take on specific meanings.’ Well, I didn’t quite do that… Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #11 (pt. 2)
Here I use the napowrimo.net prompt: a poem of origin.
National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #11 (pt. 1)
Here is my poem for Day 11 using the POETRYisEVERYTHING prompt: Use book titles in a poem: 4 or 5 in a poem at least 8 lines long, 6 in a 12-line poem, or 8 in a 16-line poem.
Here, in order, is the list of book titles I used:
Cocteau’s World — Jean Cocteau (anthology; Margaret Crosland, editor)
Seven Types of Ambiguity — Elliot Perlman
The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Milan Kundera
Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights — Salman Rushdie
Holy Robots — Vasilina Orlova
Through a Quiet Window — Steve Jansen
Hailstones and Halibut Bones — Mary O’Neill
with a grain of sand — Wisława Szymborska
What Is All This — Stephen Dixon
The Festival of Insignificance — Milan Kundera
The Coördinates of Yes — Janeé J. Baugher
The Hanging on Union Square — H. T. Tsiang
The Body’s Physics — Janeé J. Baugher
Hypergraphia — David Sylvian
The Purple Wash — Minnie A. Collins
Wishes sometimes have consequences — Kevin J. O’Conner
The Endless Talking — Haruomi Hosono
National Poetry Writing Month 2018, Day 11
This poem is based on the Napowrimo.net prompt for Day 11—a poem that addresses the future, answering the questions “What does y(our) future provide? What is your future state of mind? If you are a citizen of the “union” that is your body, what is your future “state of the union” address?” [sic]
Okay, it’s no State of the Union, and it’s undoubtedly a lot farther into the future than was intended, but…
National Poetry Writing Month 2017, Day 11
My eleventh poem for National Poetry Writing Month uses the prompt from Napowrimo.net—to write a bop. Continue reading