Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a poem inspired by fortune cookies. After my defeat at the hands of the Day #12 prompt, I needed this one. It’s basically a found poem, with each line taken from actual fortune-cookie fortunes that came up in an image search on Google.
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NaPoWriMo 2016
National Poetry Writing Month, Day #12
Tuesday’s napowrimo.net prompt was to write an index poem.
I drew a total blank. Skip to day #13…
(13 April 2016)
National Poetry Writing Month, Day #11
Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a poem ‘in which you closely describe an object or place, and then end with a much more abstract line that doesn’t seemingly [sic] have anything to do with that object or place, but which, of course, really does.’ I approached this from a slightly different angle, describing parts of the dreams I had last night/this morning. (Note: Dick’s is the name of a popular chain of drive-in burger restaurants in the Seattle area.)
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National Poetry Writing Month, Day #10
Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a ‘book spine’ poem. This involves writing a poem using the titles of books on your bookshelf. My poem neatly divided itself into sections, based on where my books are shelved. Instead of numbering these sections, I have labelled them according to their approximate (relative) compass points. The book titles I used are listed in the tags.
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National Poetry Writing Month, Day #9
Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a poem ‘that includes a line that you’re afraid to write…because it expresses something very personal that makes you uncomfortable…’
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National Poetry Writing Month, Day #8
Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a poem about a flower. Since this is about as exciting to me as the seeds thing, since the day-eight prompt was up well before midnight in my time zone, and since all of the poems I wrote for day 7 used the tritina form (and I was therefore in the zone), I went with that…
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National Poetry Writing Month, Day #7
Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a tritina. A tritina consists of three three-line stanzas plus a concluding line: each stanza contains three ‘end words’, appearing in the order ABC—CAB—BCA; all three words appear in the concluding line. My poem examines the consequences of having a brownie, a 13.7-oz Vanilla Frappuccino®, and a regular coffee first thing in the morning…
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National Poetry Writing Month, Day #6
I got a ‘featured participant’ mention on napowrimo.net today for the poem I wrote yesterday. Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a food poem. Now this one was a struggle. This is my fifth attempt. My previous attempt may have been better, but the closest it got to mentioning food was the word dinner. Anyway, here is my entry for today:
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National Poetry Writing Month 2016, Day #5
Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt is another one that I kind of groaned at inside when I read it. Seeds? Few things incite more boredom in me than the idea of looking at garden seed catalogues. I think I made it work well enough, aided by writing this while watching the Talking Heads Chronology DVD (hence the ‘building on fire’ reference). Also, ‘purple kissing bean’ is an intentional misreading of the Roughwood Seed Collection’s Purple Kingsessing Bean…
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National Poetry Writing Month 2016, Day #4
Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt is to write a poem about the cruelest month.
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Ordinary Average Thoughts 