My Day 18 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to write a poem based on the title of a chapter from a book. I opted to use one of the many books in my to-read pile, Haruki Murakami’s Killing Comendatore.
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National Poetry Writing Month 2021, Day 17: Estranged
My Day 17 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to write a poem about the moon.
National Poetry Writing Month 2021, Day 16: Off the Skeltonic path
My Day 16 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to write a Skeltonic. Not really my thing, but I went with it anyway.
National Poetry Writing Month 2021, Day 15: Things I do
My Day 15 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt: ‘think about a small habit you picked up from one of your parents, and then to write a piece that explores an early memory of your parent engaged in that habit, before shifting into writing about yourself engaging in the same habit.’
National Poetry Writing Month 2021, Day 14: The Kevin dilemma
My Day 14 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which involves writing a poem ‘that delves into the meaning of your first or last name.’ Ugh. This is all I have to say:
National Poetry Writing Month 2021, Day 13: Humanity gets a reboot
My Day 13 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which involves writing ‘a poem in the form of a news article you wish would come out tomorrow.’
National Poetry Writing Month 2021, Day 12: A logical extrapolation
My Day 12 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which involves writing a poem using at least one word/idea/concept each from Lempriere’s Classical Dictionary and the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction. I chose ‘Lusitania’ from the former and ‘completist’ from the latter.
National Poetry Writing Month 2021, Day 11: The never-ending cycle
My Day 11 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which involves writing a poem consisting of a pair of letters—one to yourself or another person, and the reply you get back.
National Poetry Writing Month 2021, Day 10: Survey
My Day 10 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which involves following the instructions to poet Hoa Nguyen’s ‘Junk Drawer Song’. I did follow all the steps, but chose to include all three of them in my finished poem. The song I chose as my focus for the first part is David Sylvian’s ‘Do You Know Me Now?’
National Poetry Writing Month 2021, Day 9: Remote control to-do list
My Day 9 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to write an unusual person or character’s to-do list.
Ordinary Average Thoughts 