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…
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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…
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.
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.
Open mic terzanelle #1 (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to write a terzanelle. After three attempts, I kind of like it, though I have not quite hit upon the right subject for it yet. In any event, this poem is my second attempt at the form.
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 15: Poetry (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to write a poem that addresses itself or some aspect of its self [sic].
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 14: After the rain, everything looked different (a poem)
Today’s prompt in The Daily Poet by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano is to write a poem starting with After the rain, it all looked different. Close enough…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 8: Return of the Man in Black (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to write a palinode, a retraction of something in an earlier poem. I opted for a follow-up to my earlier poem, The man in Reno vs the Man in Black.
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 7: A dream I never want to see again (a poem)
Today’s prompt in The Daily Poet by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano is to write a backwards acrostic—that is, an acrostic in which the last letter of each line spells out a word or phrase. As it turned out, I had a horrible night’s sleep last night (with ugly dreams to match), so picking a word—insomnia—was not difficult…
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