Here is my Day 20 poem using the napowrimo.net prompt: Write a poem grounded in language as it is spoken.
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National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #19
Here is my Day 19 poem using the napowrimo.net prompt: Write an abecedarian poem. Mine addresses my failure to come up with a poem for the other prompt I had for today, which was to write a poem consisting of mixed-up quotes. Well, it wasn’t really a failure, as I did write the poem—but it was influenced too much by the news and completely ignored the ‘no more than three or four words at a time’ directive, plus I really don’t want to post an overtly political poem right now.
National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #18 (pt. 2)
Here is my Day 18 poem using the napowrimo.net prompt: Write an elegy in which the abstraction of sadness is communicated not through abstract words, but physical detail. Most of this poem is inspired by what I assume was an inadvertent selfie my father took with his phone a few months before he died.
National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #17 (pt. 2)
Here is my Day 17 poem using the napowrimo.net prompt: a poem that presents a scene from an unusual point of view.
National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #16 (pt. 2)
Here is my Day 16 poem using the napowrimo.net prompt: ‘a poem that uses the form of a list to defamiliarize the mundane.’ I don’t think my poem ‘defamiliarizes’ anything, but it is a list.
National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #15 (pt. 2)
Here is my Day 15 poem using the napowrimo.net prompt: a dramatic monologue. I don’t know if my poem counts, but it’s a true story, and it really did feel like a scene from a Japanese drama.
National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #14 (pt. 2)
Here is my Day 14 poem using the napowrimo.net prompt: a poem incorporating homophones, homographs, and homonyms. I probably should have waited until first thing in the morning instead of writing just before bed (the napowrimo.net prompt goes live at 9 PM Pacific time), because this poem (as such) is just silly.
National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #13 (pt. 2)
Here is my Day 13 poem using the napowrimo.net prompt: a poem about something mysterious or spooky.
National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #12 (pt. 2)
Here is my Day 12 poem using the napowrimo.net prompt: writing about a dull thing you own, and why your love it, or about what it would mean to give away or destroy a significant object.
National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #10
Only one prompt available for Day 10 so far…
The napowromo.net prompt calls for ‘a poem that starts from a regional phrase, particularly one to describe a weather phenomenon’.
There’s nothing particularly regional about the phrases I included. The one that opens the poem is something my ex used to say (probably still does, as I note in the poem); the other two are my own phrases, which I use to describe states of rainy weather I still associate with particular times of the year. Continue reading
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