The napowrimo.net prompt for day 10 is to write a modified haiku (called hay(na)ku—ugh): the first line is one word, the second is two words, and the third is three words. It can stand alone, or several can be chained together. Continue reading
NaPoWriMo 2020
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 2020, Day 8
The napowrimo.net prompt for day 8 is to use the line from someone else’s poem as the seed for a new poem. I chose the line ‘your pocket is full of rain’, from the label of the cassette in the featured image above, by Katie Jane Garside. Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 7
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.
National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 6
The napowrimo.net prompt for day 6 is to write an ekphrastic poem based on Hieronymous Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. I went with the wolf-like creature playing the drum…
National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 5
The napowrimo.net prompt for day 5 is to use Jim Simmerman’s Twenty Little Poetry Projects prompt to write a poem. I didn’t use all twenty, but otherwise didn’t do too badly. I was partly inspired by the coffin photo from an article in The Stranger, which got me—again—on the subject of covid-19…
National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 4
Having used my Day 3 poem as an opportunity to vent, I can get back to my normal angsty poems. The napowrimo.net prompt for day 4 is to write a poem based on an image from a dream. Woof. (Note: I don’t know who did the painting in the featured image above, but it’s hanging on the wall of the bedroom in my mother’s house.)
National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 3
The napowrimo.net prompt for day 3 is to make a list of 10 words, use the Rhyme Zone website to find two to four rhyming or similar sounding words, and then use the assembled list of words in a poem. I started with virus, muck, vomit, infect, bronzed, conjunction, and a few other words (I didn’t save the list).
In my poem (as such), I give vent to some of my many frustrations over our current situation.
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National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 2
The napowrimo.net prompt for day 2: ‘write a poem about a specific place — a particular house or store or school or office. Try to incorporate concrete details, like street names, distances (“three and a half blocks from the post office”), the types of trees or flowers, the color of the shirts on the people you remember there.’ Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 1
I promised myself I wasn’t going to write a(nother) coronavirus poem. I mostly didn’t. Today’s entry is off-prompt; it was instead inspired by Stephen King’s April Fool’s Day tweet.
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