Here I use the prompt provided by poet (and bookstore owner) Chris Jarmick on his blog, POETRYisEVERYTHING.
The task for Day 8 is to write two eight-line poems—one that excludes eight letters of the alphabet, one that consists of only eight letters. This was harder than I thought it would be.
Here I use the prompt provided by poet (and bookstore owner) Chris Jarmick on his blog, POETRYisEVERYTHING.
The task for Day 7 is to write two septolets—one formal (16 syllables in seven lines, 1–2–3–4–3–2–1), one informal (14 words in seven lines, with no more than three words in a line).
Here I use the prompt provided by poet (and bookstore owner) Chris Jarmick on his blog, POETRYisEVERYTHING.
The task for Day 6 is to create odd combinations of words for colors, then use three to five of them in a poem.
Here I use the napowrimo.net prompt: ‘a poem that incorporates at least one of the following: (1) the villanelle form, (2) lines taken from an outside text, and/or (3) phrases that oppose each other in some way.’ I didn’t follow the example and include song lyrics, because music publishers tend to be more alert to copyright infringement—but I did happen to be watching Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged appearance on YouTube, so my ‘outside text’ is ‘Come as you are’. I specifically countered that sentiment with ‘dress it up’, but tried to include opposites throughout.
Here I use the prompt provided by poet (and bookstore owner) Chris Jarmick on his blog, POETRYisEVERYTHING.
The task for Day 5 is to write a poem that includes seven references to falling. My approach was to use parts of song titles that contain some form of the word ‘fall’. All of the songs titles I chose are listed here.
Here I use the napowrimo.net prompt: sadness through simplicity. I also opted for directness.
Here I use the prompt provided by poet (and bookstore owner) Chris Jarmick on his blog, POETRYisEVERYTHING.
I’m never a fan of this type of prompt (anagrams), but I did it anyway.
Here I use the napowrimo.net prompt: to write ‘something that involves a story or action that unfolds over an appreciable length of time.’
Here I use the prompt provided by poet (and bookstore owner) Chris Jarmick on his blog, POETRYisEVERYTHING.
This prompt involves threes. This is what I did with that:
Here I use the napowrimo.net prompt: to write a poem that ends with a question.
Ordinary Average Thoughts 