My fourth poem for National Poetry Writing Month combines the prompt from Napowrimo.net, which is to write a poem ‘with a word or idea or line it isn’t expressing directly’, with the prompt from the NaPoWriMo Facebook page, which is to ‘make use of Color [sic] as your theme.’ [Update: I moved the I have no need… stanza because it was bugging me. I will keep it where I moved it for now—but I suspect further revision will be necessary later on.] Continue reading
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National Poetry Writing Month 2017, Day 3
My third poem for National Poetry Writing Month uses the prompt from Napowrimo.net, which is to write an elegy, with a focus on something unusual about the person or thing being mourned. My poem is addressed to a friend of mine who died about two-and-a-half years ago, and a weekend spent with her and a group of her friends during my first summer vacation (August 1988) after moving to Tokyo. Technically, I wrote this poem on Day 2, but the Day 3 prompt went up at midnight Eastern Time, so I am counting this as my official Day 3 poem… Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2017, Day 2
My second poem for National Poetry Writing Month combines the prompts from Napowrimo.net (write a poem inspired by, or in the form of, a recipe) and the Napowrimo Facebook page (write a poem inspired by your favorite piece of art)… Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2017, Day 1
It’s National Poetry Writing Month again; this year is my fifth time participating. My first entry combines the prompts from Napowrimo.net (write a Kay Ryan-esque poem) and the Napowrimo Facebook page (write about a ‘big first’)… Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month begins one week from today
It is that time of year again: National Poetry Writing Month (a/k/a NaPoWriMo, after National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo) begins April 1st. Once again, I plan to do the poem-a-day challenge; again I will use the napowrimo.net prompts, whether I like them or not.
To sign up and participate, or just to follow along: http://www.napowrimo.net/
(25 March 2017)
Stuff—31 March 2016
With the end of March comes the start of April—and, with the start of April, National Poetry Writing Month, a/k/a NaPoWriMo. Accordingly, this seems as good a time as any for an update… Continue reading
It’s that time of year again…
Time for National Poetry Month again, which means it is also time for National Poetry Writing Month, a/k/a NaPoWriMo.
Ordinary Average Thoughts 