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National Poetry Writing Month: Day #21 (April 21, 2014)

2014/04/21 — Leave a comment

For today’s entry, I went with one of the prompts from Kelli Russell Agodon‘s list:

Write a poem with the opposite hand that you write with, or, if you type your poems on the computer, use only one hand to type.

Then I applied one of the random prompts on Language is a Virus:

Systematically derange the language: Write a work consisting only of prepositional phrases, or add a gerund to every line of an already existing work.

I then chose the bits that worked from the two versions, and combined them into today’s poem.

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National Poetry Writing Month: Day #20 (April 20, 2014)

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Family poems seem to be all the rage among poetry prompts today; both NaPoWrimo.net and Writer’s Digest suggest writing a ‘family poem’ for today’s prompt. (Okay, that’s only two. Still…)

Number 20 on LitBridge’s list of prompts involves imagining ‘living 300 or more years ago’, with ‘the same personality and body’. (Yeah, I can’t see myself in the 18th century.)

Kelli Russell Agodon’s prompt for day 20 suggests removing my shoes and writing a poem celebrating my feet. (I hate my feet.)

Once again, PoeWar comes to the rescue. The twentieth prompt on the list is:

Write a poem that begins with a line of advice or instruction, such as don’t give up or take a left at the willow tree.

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National Poetry Writing Month: Day #15 (April 15, 2014)

2014/04/15 — Leave a comment

Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt was giving me fits. The ottava rima that was last year’s Day 8 prompt worked out well, as it coincided with news of the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. For some reason, though, attempting a terza rima just had me encountering trite sentences and dead-end rhymes.

So, I decided to switch tack, and go with the 15th item on the list of prompts at PoeWar:

Write a tanka. Feel free to write more than one if you like.

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National Poetry Writing Month: Day #14 (April 14, 2014)

2014/04/14 — Leave a comment

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.

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