Somewhat off-prompt today. I’m not a fan of sonnets—although I did use Shakespeare and sonnets as my inspiration…
Day 9
National Poetry Writing Month 2022, Day 9
My Day 9 poem, based on the prompt at https://www.napowrimo.net/day-nine-8/
National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 9
I don’t like concrete poems, so the napowrimo.net prompt for day 9 was out of the question. Instead, I went with the day 9 prompt from Chris Jarmick: make a list of five to ten things with spots, and write a poem that answers a question about each of them. I’m not sure mine quite works that way, but my list consisted of (in order of appearance in the poem): a graph, an old person’s hands, a leopard, teenagers, eyes, some households with dogs, a stained t-shirt, the saying ‘X marks the spot’, the Great Red Spot (of Jupiter), and (some of) Kusama Yayoi(’s art). Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #9 (pts. 1 and 2)
For Day 9, I combine the two prompts I have been using:
The prompt provided by poet (and bookstore owner) Chris Jarmick on his blog, POETRYisEVERYTHING, calls for a poem that uses anaphora.
The napowromo.net prompt calls for ‘a Sei Shonagon-style list of “things”’.
(And I forgot to update the title of this post. It is fixed now. What will I do tomorrow? Stay tuned!)
National Poetry Writing Month 2018, Day 9
The prompt given by Napowrimo.net for Day 9 is to write a poem in which something small and something big come together…
National Poetry Writing Month 2017, Day 9
My ninth poem for National Poetry Writing Month uses the prompt from Napowrimo.net—to write a nine-line poem. To further add to the intrigue, each line incorporates some kind of reference to nine. Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #9 (April 9, 2014)
Today’s prompt: take any random song playlist (from your iPod, CD player, favorite radio station, Pandora or Spotify, etc.) and use the next five song titles on that randomized list in a poem.
Ordinary Average Thoughts 