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
National Poetry Writing Month
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)
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 30: Who will I wake up to be? (reversed) (a poem)
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
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.
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #14, Part 2 (April 14, 2014)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt:
[W]rite a poem in which every sentence, except for the last one, is in the form of a question.
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #14 (April 14, 2014)
Today’s prompt comes from Day 14 of the 2014 April PAD Challenge at Writer’s Digest:
[T]ake the phrase ‘If I Were (blank),’ replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then write the poem.
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #9 (April 9, 2014)
Today’s prompt: take any random song playlist (from your iPod, CD player, favorite radio station, Pandora or Spotify, etc.) and use the next five song titles on that randomized list in a poem.
Ordinary Average Thoughts 