Today I went with Chris Jarmick’s prompt for Day 24: ‘create a poem primarily made up of just words taken from the book titles you are planning to read.’ Fortunately, I have a lot of books I have yet to read, so this poem is made up of the titles of 22 books. Only my sign-off and the interjection before ‘hope never dies’ are not book titles. Continue reading
Here is my Day 24 poem using the napowrimo.net prompt: Open a reference book and use the two pages in front of you as inspiration.
I used Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (Centenary Edition), pages 516 and 517…
The Napowrimo.net prompt for Day 24 is to write an elegy. This is always tricky for me, at least when it comes to prompts. These last five years or so, I have used poetry to mourn all sorts of things in my life—but this almost always came about as a natural response to an event or a memory. So, I opted for optimism with this poem.
Today’s entry combines prompts from Kelli Russell Agodon‘s list:
Write a poem that has the word ‘love’ in it somewhere. You cannot use the word ‘love’ by itself; it must be hidden (such as in the word ‘glove’, or in two words, like ‘halo venom’.
Write a poem that begins with the word ‘I‘. [Never a problem for me, it seems]
and NaPoWriMo.net:
[W]rite a poem that features walls, bricks, stones, arches, or the like.
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