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… I bought tulips and daffodils for the garden I don’t know what they mean I just wanted to keep up the conversation (11 April 2020) Wishes [...]
Here I use the napowrimo.net prompt: a poem of origin. On his birthday, the seven-year-old decided he should be sad. (10 April 2019—posted April 11th) Wishes sometimes have consequences is available for pre-ordering from Amazon and your favorite local bookstores! IndieBound search: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=wishes+sometimes+have+consequences Hardcover: https://smile.amazon.com/Wishes-Sometimes-Consequences-Kevin-OConner/dp/0998878154/ Paperback: https://smile.amazon.com/Wishes-Sometimes-Consequences-Kevin-OConner/dp/0998878162/ Information about my other books can be found [...]
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; [...]
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 [...]
My eleventh poem for National Poetry Writing Month uses the prompt from Napowrimo.net—to write a bop. Fly the friendly skies…? Once associated with gangs and cowards, the tactic of many against one is increasingly the first tactic to be employed in sticky situations ‘Fly the friendly skies of United’ Initial attempts at intimidation meet with resistance expressions [...]
