Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is a bit tricky. It involves taking an Emily Dickinson poem, stripping out all the line breaks, re-breaking the lines, and adding and subtracting words. I chose to use her poem The World is not Conclusion, turning it into a commentary on the current state of American politics…
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The woman in my dreams (a poem)
Using the prompt from Day 4 of the Writer’s Digest 2015 April PAD Challenge to continue exploring last night’s dream…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 4: Break the code—read the message (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to write a ‘loveless’ love poem—i.e., one that does not use the word love and does not include the usual trappings associated with love poems. As luck would have it, I had a dream last night. I wrote two poems trying to capture what I remembered of the dream; this poem is a composite of the two—appropriate, since the woman in the dream seemed to be a composite of two or three different women. [N.B., I have swapped titles with the other poem I wrote about this dream, after realizing that each title fit the other poem better.]
Alarm test signals (a poem)
Today’s prompt from the Writer’s Digest 2015 April PAD Challenge is to ‘write a machine poem.’
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 3: Feline sibling rivalry (a poem)
Working with today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt, I attempted a fourteener…
The revolution will not be televised (2015 edition) (a poem)
I was sitting in a waiting room when the first line of this poem popped into my head…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 2: Secrets (a poem)
For today’s prompt, I went with the Writer’s Digest 2015 April PAD Challenge: ‘write a secret poem.’
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 1: The cat’s gone crazy (a poem)
Today has been one of those days where it has been harder to get things on paper. None of the prompts I have looked at for this first day of NaPoWriMo have done much for me, so I wrote about one of my cats acting strangely…
Movie magic (a poem)
The movie Rapture-Palooza is set in Seattle after The Rapture. Many of the outdoor scenes, though, took place on decidedly un-Seattle-like streets. That got me thinking about how movies treat the geography of the cities in which the stories are set…
Zero (a poem)
Found Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem on Amazon Prime last night…
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