Last night, I had one of the strangest dreams I’ve had in quite a while… Continue reading
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NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 24: That moment (a poem)
Today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt is to write a ‘moment poem’…
Upon seeing rhododendron leaves on my car (a poem)
For the record, I hate rhododendrons… Continue reading
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 23: Four of Cups (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to write a poem based on the card you draw from a deck. The only deck of cards I have is a tarot deck, so…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 22: What if the earth just has a fever? (a poem)
Every prompt today seems to be an Earth Day prompt: napowrimo.net, Writer’s Digest, The Daily Poet… The first thing I always think of is George Carlin’s ‘The planet is fine’ routine, so that had some influence on my Earth Day poem…
A scene from the movie where real life and dreams attempt to intersect (a poem)
Sometimes, falling asleep with the TV on affects my dreams…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 21: Erasure poem (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to create an erasure poem, in which you take existing text and erase words to make a poem from what you leave untouched. I used page 35 of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
My ambition, the great mystery (a poem)
Today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt is to take the phrase, My (blank), the (blank), fill in the blanks to create the title of the poem, then write the poem. I combined this prompt with the terzanelle from the other day…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 20: Knowledge isn’t everything (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to ‘write a poem that states the things you know.’
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 19: What is a picture really worth? (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to write a landay. Poetry Magazine describes the landay as ‘an oral and often anonymous scrap of song created by and for mostly illiterate people: the more than twenty million Pashtun women who span the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.’ It is a couplet, with the first line made up of nine syllables, the second, thirteen.
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