Today’s prompt is from NaPoWriMo.net:
…find a news article, and […] write a poem using (mostly, if not only) words from the article.
NaPoWriMo.net
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #27 (April 27, 2014)
Today’s entry was a tricky one. I had all sorts of trouble coming up with something I even halfway liked.
In the end, I went with the original prompt from NaPoWriMo.net:
…a poem written from a photograph.
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #26 (April 26, 2014)
Today’s entry inadvertently combines prompts from PoeWar:
Write a poem about a natural event.
[W]rite a water poem.
and NaPoWriMo.net:
…give the curtal sonnet a whirl.
Earlier, the prompt explains:
…the curtal sonnet is shorter than the normal, fourteen-line sonnet. Instead, it has a first stanza of six lines, followed by a second stanza of four, and then closes with a half-line.
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #25 (April 25, 2014)
Today’s entry combines prompts from PoeWar:
Write a poem that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once.
[W]rite a ‘last straw’ poem.
and NaPoWriMo.net:
[W]rite a poem that uses anaphora.
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #24 (April 24, 2014)
Today’s entry combines prompts from Kelli Russell Agodon‘s list:
Write a poem that has the word ‘love’ in it somewhere. You cannot use the word ‘love’ by itself; it must be hidden (such as in the word ‘glove’, or in two words, like ‘halo venom’.
Write a poem that begins with the word ‘I‘. [Never a problem for me, it seems]
and NaPoWriMo.net:
[W]rite a poem that features walls, bricks, stones, arches, or the like.
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #19 (April 19, 2014)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is kind of a long one, so I’ll condense and paraphrase:
[W]rite a poem using one or more of the sea shell names listed.
Ordinary Average Thoughts 