My Day 7 poem, based on the prompt at https://www.napowrimo.net/day-seven-8/ It took me a while to arrive at this one; it was between ‘take the bad with the good’, ‘it is what it is’ (what else could it be?), and ‘love conquers all’. I will never ‘takethe good with the bad’ I hear it all [...]
The napowrimo.net prompt for day 7 is to write a poem based on a news article. Since 90% of the news these days is about the same thing, I chose to approach it from a different angle. 1 No news is not good news now It is the horror of anticipation when you don’t want [...]
Here I use the napowrimo.net prompt: ‘a poem of gifts and joy. What would you give yourself, if you could have anything? What would you give someone else?’ 1 Things I wish I could give myself: A good night’s sleep without interruption or blankets kicked to the floor A release of habits that always demand [...]
Here I use the prompt provided by poet (and bookstore owner) Chris Jarmick on his blog, POETRYisEVERYTHING. The task for Day 7 is to write two septolets—one formal (16 syllables in seven lines, 1–2–3–4–3–2–1), one informal (14 words in seven lines, with no more than three words in a line). 1 It could be an [...]
I detoured somewhat from the Day 7 prompt given by Napowrimo.net. The idea of a conversation between different identities felt a little too similar to the other day’s prompt about different voices. I didn’t abandon it completely, though; I took my memory of a birthday party I went to (and left) about five years ago, and, [...]
My Seventh poem for National Poetry Writing Month uses the prompt from Napowrimo.net—which involves making four short lists, then connecting items from the first two using information from the last two. The list items I chose were the smooth, black stone (touchstone) a friend of mine gave me, under the coffee table (where I sometimes find my remote [...]
Today's prompt: I didn't like today's prompt. Actually, I didn't like any of the prompts I encountered today, until I got to the Writer's Digest site, and the prompt for Day 7 of their PAD Challenge: write a self-portrait poem. This particular poem is partly inspired by Frank 'T.J.' Mackey, the character Tom Cruise played in Magnolia. And [...]
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