I followed today’s napowrimo.net prompt, which was to write a san san, which the site said consists of seven lines, with an a-b-c-a-b-c-d rhyme scheme, and repeats three words or images three times.
As it turns out, it is actually eight lines, and the rhyme scheme appears to be a-b-c-a-b-d-c-d.
Since my poem was originally written using the errant description, I have made a slight change so that it reflects the correct form.
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Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a san san, which consists of seven lines, with an a-b-c-a-b-c-d rhyme scheme, and repeats three words or images three times. My poem was influenced by the news of an earthquake in Japan a few hours ago, but uses the idea of earthquakes in more of a metaphorical (allegorical?) sense.
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A bonus poem about one of my cats, Trixie, since I did not come up with a poem for Day 12 of National Poetry Writing Month…
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Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a poem inspired by fortune cookies. After my defeat at the hands of the Day #12 prompt, I needed this one. It’s basically a found poem, with each line taken from actual fortune-cookie fortunes that came up in an image search on Google.
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Tuesday’s napowrimo.net prompt was to write an index poem.
I drew a total blank. Skip to day #13…
(13 April 2016)
Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a poem ‘in which you closely describe an object or place, and then end with a much more abstract line that doesn’t seemingly [sic] have anything to do with that object or place, but which, of course, really does.’ I approached this from a slightly different angle, describing parts of the dreams I had last night/this morning. (Note: Dick’s is the name of a popular chain of drive-in burger restaurants in the Seattle area.)
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Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a ‘book spine’ poem. This involves writing a poem using the titles of books on your bookshelf. My poem neatly divided itself into sections, based on where my books are shelved. Instead of numbering these sections, I have labelled them according to their approximate (relative) compass points. The book titles I used are listed in the tags.
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Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a poem ‘that includes a line that you’re afraid to write…because it expresses something very personal that makes you uncomfortable…’
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Technically, I wrote my Day 8 entry for National Poetry Writing Month yesterday, so here is a poem I wrote today.
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Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a poem about a flower. Since this is about as exciting to me as the seeds thing, since the day-eight prompt was up well before midnight in my time zone, and since all of the poems I wrote for day 7 used the tritina form (and I was therefore in the zone), I went with that…
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Ordinary Average Thoughts 