My Day 28 poem, based on the prompt at https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-eight-8/. This is a concrete poem (as such); the text appears in more straightforward style beneath the image.
Day 28
National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 28
I took kind of a sideways approach to the napowrimo.net prompt for Day 28: ‘Describe a bedroom from your past in a series of descriptive paragraphs or a poem.’ I didn’t really give a description, or limit myself to a single bedroom… Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #28 (pt. 2)
Here is my Day 28 poem using the napowrimo.net prompt: Write a meta-poem—a poem about a poem.
National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #28 (pt. 1)
Here is my poem for Day 28 using the POETRYisEVERYTHING prompt: Use five verbs and five nouns used in space, astronomy, or rocket science in a poem about another subject.
National Poetry Writing Month 2018, Day 28
The Napowrimo.net prompt for Day 28 is to ‘draft a prose poem in the form/style of a postcard.’
In defense of the word ‘and’ (a poem)
Another bit of Skeltonic verse that I wrote on Day 28 of National Poetry Writing Month, after I had already posted my poem for the day. A problem I often have with poetry in print is that some poets format their work in such a way that the manner of presentation distracts me from the poem itself. One of the things that makes a poem unreadable for me is when a poet substitutes every occurrence of the word and with the ampersand (&). Though it may make sense in a title or a name, it looks horrible when used in text, suggesting either laziness or affectation.
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National Poetry Writing Month 2017, Day 28
My Day 28 poem for National Poetry Writing Month uses the prompt on Napowrimo.net—to write a poem using Skeltonic verse. Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #28 (April 28, 2014)
Today’s prompt is from NaPoWriMo.net:
…find a news article, and […] write a poem using (mostly, if not only) words from the article.
Ordinary Average Thoughts 