I did not follow any specific prompts for Day 12. Still, this poem feels somewhat like the damage poem suggested in today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt…
NaPoWriMo 2015
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 11: The library on a Saturday afternoon in April (a poem)
I did not follow any prompts for Day 11. Instead, I went with a slice-of-life observation while I was out and about…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 10: Tangled threads (a poem)
Ugh! This was one of those days when I found it hard to get going. I was going to write an abecedarian poem, but I didn’t want to force anything, or have to resort to the ‘X marks the spot’ cliché.
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 9: Thinking about what I write versus what you see (a poem)
I don’t like any of the writing prompts I have seen today, so I am going with my first poem of the day, which is a brief contemplation about poetry…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 8: Return of the Man in Black (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to write a palinode, a retraction of something in an earlier poem. I opted for a follow-up to my earlier poem, The man in Reno vs the Man in Black.
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 6: The window of consciousness that greets me at 4:30 in the morning (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt involves writing an aubade. I’m not familiar enough with this type of poem to know if this one qualifies, but it’s what I came up with. Since it was 5:30-ish 7:15 a.m. and I was only 3/4 awake, I was just happy that I half remembered the first couple of lines that popped in my head long enough to write them down in some form…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 5: Political Science (c. 2015) (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is a bit tricky. It involves taking an Emily Dickinson poem, stripping out all the line breaks, re-breaking the lines, and adding and subtracting words. I chose to use her poem The World is not Conclusion, turning it into a commentary on the current state of American politics…
The woman in my dreams (a poem)
Using the prompt from Day 4 of the Writer’s Digest 2015 April PAD Challenge to continue exploring last night’s dream…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 4: Break the code—read the message (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to write a ‘loveless’ love poem—i.e., one that does not use the word love and does not include the usual trappings associated with love poems. As luck would have it, I had a dream last night. I wrote two poems trying to capture what I remembered of the dream; this poem is a composite of the two—appropriate, since the woman in the dream seemed to be a composite of two or three different women. [N.B., I have swapped titles with the other poem I wrote about this dream, after realizing that each title fit the other poem better.]
Alarm test signals (a poem)
Today’s prompt from the Writer’s Digest 2015 April PAD Challenge is to ‘write a machine poem.’
Ordinary Average Thoughts 