Here is my poem for Day 20 using the POETRYisEVERYTHING prompt: three or four naani. A naani consists of four lines, with a total of 20–25 syllables. Not bound to a particular subject, but depends upon human relations and current statements.
Mine are connected, an adaptation and continuation of a poem I wrote last night (as one of my bookstore poems) shortly before a poetry reading I attended.
Fuck it. Here is my poem for Day 19 using the POETRYisEVERYTHING prompt: Mix up some well-known quotes, no more than three or four words at a time. The poem should be eight lines or longer and consist mainly of the quotes you are borrowing.
The final line comes from Johnny Rotten’s remark at the final Sex Pistols gig at Winterland.
Here is my Day 19 poem using the napowrimo.net prompt: Write an abecedarian poem. Mine addresses my failure to come up with a poem for the other prompt I had for today, which was to write a poem consisting of mixed-up quotes. Well, it wasn’t really a failure, as I did write the poem—but it was influenced too much by the news and completely ignored the ‘no more than three or four words at a time’ directive, plus I really don’t want to post an overtly political poem right now.
Here is my Day 18 poem using the napowrimo.net prompt: Write an elegy in which the abstraction of sadness is communicated not through abstract words, but physical detail. Most of this poem is inspired by what I assume was an inadvertent selfie my father took with his phone a few months before he died.
Here is my poem for Day 18 using the POETRYisEVERYTHING prompt: If you had to have one word tattooed on your forehead, which word would you choose? Include that word in a poem three times; try making it the third word of every third line in a poem 12 lines or longer.
I could not think of a word I would want on my forehead—not least of all because I would not want that word to limit how anyone might see me. And if I could think of one, it would either be in teeny-tiny letters in the middle of an eyebrow, or in invisible ink. For the purposes of this poem, I went with the invisible ink variant…
Here is my Day 17 poem using the napowrimo.net prompt: a poem that presents a scene from an unusual point of view.
Here is my poem for Day 17 using the POETRYisEVERYTHING prompt: Lots of three-syllable words, using this form:
Line 1 three-syllable word
Line 2 three words, two of them with three syllables
Line 3 six words, at least three of them with three syllables
Line 4 eight words, at least four of them with three syllables
New stanza
Line 5 six words, three with three syllables
Line 6 three words, two with three syllables
Line 7 one or two words and one three-syllable word
Here is my Day 16 poem using the napowrimo.net prompt: ‘a poem that uses the form of a list to defamiliarize the mundane.’ I don’t think my poem ‘defamiliarizes’ anything, but it is a list.
Here is my poem for Day 16 using the POETRYisEVERYTHING prompt: Write a poem with four adjectives in it, then remove the adjectives and replace them with nouns. (https://chrisjarmick.wordpress.com/2019/04/14/napowrimo-prompts-for-april-15-and-april-16-plus-some-prompt-poems/)
Harder than it sounds. I have included the original adjectives with strikethroughs, with the replacement noun following. In the first line of the first stanza, I added a word after the original noun to make the substitution work.
Yes, I left another alone, as it is technically a determiner. (I looked it up to make sure).
Here is my Day 15 poem using the napowrimo.net prompt: a dramatic monologue. I don’t know if my poem counts, but it’s a true story, and it really did feel like a scene from a Japanese drama.
Ordinary Average Thoughts 