My Day 2 poem, based on the prompt at https://www.napowrimo.net/day-two-9/
Day 2
Week 4/Day 2. Room (a poem)
The second poem of the fourth week of the online retreat.
Week 3/Day 2. Hyatt House, Redmond (a poem)
The second poem of the third week of the online retreat.
Week 2/Day 2. Ain’t what it used to be (a poem)
The second poem of the second week of the online retreat. (Slightly revised.)
Week 1/Day 2. Self-portrait, 2008 (a poem)
I’m participating in an online poetry retreat for the rest of the month. This is my second poem.
National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 2
The napowrimo.net prompt for day 2: ‘write a poem about a specific place — a particular house or store or school or office. Try to incorporate concrete details, like street names, distances (“three and a half blocks from the post office”), the types of trees or flowers, the color of the shirts on the people you remember there.’ Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #2 (pt. 2)
Here I use the napowrimo.net prompt: to write a poem that ends with a question.
National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #2 (pt. 1)
Here I use the prompt provided by poet (and bookstore owner) Chris Jarmick on his blog, POETRYisEVERYTHING.
This prompt is basically the same as last year’s Napowrimo.net prompt for Day 18. As I did then, the poem I used for my line-by-line backwards response was ‘Ophelia’ from Janée J. Baugher’s book Coördinates of Yes. This time, I stuck more closely to the line structure of the original poem while writing, though I edited and revised according to my sense of the internal rhythm of this new poem.
National Poetry Writing Month 2018, Day 2
Using the prompt from Napowrimo.net—to ‘write a poem that plays with voice.’ Adopting one of the suggestions, I took an earlier poem and imagined the other side of the conversation (as such)…
National Poetry Writing Month 2017, Day 2
My second poem for National Poetry Writing Month combines the prompts from Napowrimo.net (write a poem inspired by, or in the form of, a recipe) and the Napowrimo Facebook page (write a poem inspired by your favorite piece of art)… Continue reading
Ordinary Average Thoughts 