National Poetry Writing Month: Day #26 (April 26, 2014)

Today’s entry inadvertently combines prompts from PoeWar:

Write a poem about a natural event.

Writer’s Digest:

[W]rite a water poem.

and NaPoWriMo.net:

…give the curtal sonnet a whirl.

Earlier, the prompt explains:

…the curtal sonnet is shorter than the normal, fourteen-line sonnet. Instead, it has a first stanza of six lines, followed by a second stanza of four, and then closes with a half-line.

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National Poetry Writing Month: Day #25 (April 25, 2014)

Today’s entry combines prompts from PoeWar:

Write a poem that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once.

Writer’s Digest:

[W]rite a ‘last straw’ poem.

and NaPoWriMo.net:

[W]rite a poem that uses anaphora.

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National Poetry Writing Month: Day #19 (April 19, 2014)

Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is kind of a long one, so I’ll condense and paraphrase:

[W]rite a poem using one or more of the sea shell names listed.

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