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!)
The napowrimo.net prompt for the last day of National Poetry Writing Month 2015 is to either write a poem in reverse, or take a previously written poem and reverse the order of the lines. I will want to come up with a better title for this one, but I worked with the weird dream poem I wrote a few days ago to create this one… Continue reading
Today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt is to write a ‘what nobody knows’ poem. I can definitely say that nobody knows the answer to the question posed in this poem…
Today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt is to write a ‘looking back’ poem. Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a hay(na)ku. My poem inadvertently combines the two.
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to write a clerihew.
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to write a poem based on the card you draw from a deck. The only deck of cards I have is a tarot deck, so…
Every prompt today seems to be an Earth Day prompt: napowrimo.net, Writer’s Digest, The Daily Poet… The first thing I always think of is George Carlin’s ‘The planet is fine’ routine, so that had some influence on my Earth Day poem…
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to create an erasure poem, in which you take existing text and erase words to make a poem from what you leave untouched. I used page 35 of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to ‘write a poem that states the things you know.’
Today’s prompt is a really long one from NaPoWriMo.net; I shall condense it thusly:
Jim Simmerman’s ‘Twenty Little Poetry Projects’.
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Ordinary Average Thoughts 