My day 14 poem for National Poetry Writing Month uses the prompt from Napowrimo.net—to write a clarihew. I wanted to avoid writing about our president-inator, or any other political figure, so I decided to pay tribute to local legend Tony James. Continue reading
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National Poetry Writing Month 2017, Day 13
My thirteenth poem for National Poetry Writing Month uses the prompt from Napowrimo.net—to write a ghazal. I’m not thrilled with any of my attempts at this form; this is the one I disliked the least. Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2017, Day 12
My twelfth poem for National Poetry Writing Month uses the prompt from Napowrimo.net—to write a poem incorporating alliteration and assonance. I think I did better with the alliteration than the assonance, but here it is… Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2017, Day 11
My eleventh poem for National Poetry Writing Month uses the prompt from Napowrimo.net—to write a bop. Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2017, Day 10
My tenth poem for National Poetry Writing Month uses the prompt from Napowrimo.net—to write ‘a poem that is a portrait of someone important to you.’ This is perhaps a bit rougher than I would like, but it has been almost 25 years… Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2017, Day 9
My ninth poem for National Poetry Writing Month uses the prompt from Napowrimo.net—to write a nine-line poem. To further add to the intrigue, each line incorporates some kind of reference to nine. Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2017, Day 8
My eighth poem for National Poetry Writing Month uses the prompt from Napowrimo.net—to write a poem relying on repetition. I was having trouble with it—until I saw a young (35-year-old) Ted Knight on an episode of Peter Gunn… Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2017, Day 7
My Seventh poem for National Poetry Writing Month uses the prompt from Napowrimo.net—which involves making four short lists, then connecting items from the first two using information from the last two. The list items I chose were the smooth, black stone (touchstone) a friend of mine gave me, under the coffee table (where I sometimes find my remote after misplacing it), the remote control I misplace at least twice a day, and not remembering something about an item I have been given (a business card, in the example on my actual list). Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2017, Day 6
My sixth poem for National Poetry Writing Month uses the prompt from Napowrimo.net—‘write a poem that looks at the same thing from different points of view.’ Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2017, Day 5
My fifth poem for National Poetry Writing Month uses the prompt from Napowrimo.net—who were seriously testing me with their prompt to ‘write a poem that is based in the natural world.’ When it comes to poetry, few things are duller to me than…a nature poem. Read Beowulf to me in the original Middle English. Make me listen to a poem that is so long it takes 43-and-a-half minutes to read if you’re rushing through it. Assemble our current president-inator’s tweets to date into an incoherent mess of writing that could be called a poem only in the loosest sense possible. But nature poems? Thank you, no. Fortunately, I was able to give myself enough leeway to have fun with it—and without any references whatsoever to fecundity… Continue reading
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