NaPoWriMo Day 10
Oh, crap. Where has the day gone? I have 19 minutes to write and post a poem. Today’s NaPoWriMo challenge is to write an “un-love” poem, which isn’t the same as a hate poem. A wise person once pointed...
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Since I learned about rhetorical appeals and other ways people are constantly manipulated by corporations, media, religion, and other nefarious characters from everyday life, I can’t stop analyzing...
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It’s been an busy, productive day and I just realized I have a poem to write, but I’m too tired. Instead, a departure from the suggested prompt, which was to take a walk and write about what you see....
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Today’s challenge is to write in the voice of a superhero. In Which Superman Learns How Obi Plans to Save His Friends from Global Warming After two hours in a beach-shack bar I suspect that my new...
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Who knew there were so many forms of poetry? This is a pantun. Dedicated to my overly-frenzied, bossy co-worker to whom I secretly wished I had a Xanax to offer this morning. I wanted to restrain...
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I’ve been feeling that restlessness that comes with spring and glimpsing the end of the school year. Summer and adventure are coming. Soon. Soon. Pilgrimage Give me a ticket to a faraway place. I need...
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Playing off of last week’s valediction poem, the challenge today is to write a hello poem, which means that this song has inserted itself into my brain and put itself on infinite loop. The end is my...
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NaPoWriMo Day 20 – Working from a List
Today’s NaPoWriMo challenge was to write a poem that incorporates at least five words from this list. I used nine. At midnight upwind of the dusky pine grove the hoot of an owl flutters through my...
View ArticleNaPoWriMo Day 21 – Fortune Cookie Lines
Today’s challenge is to rewrite Frank O’Hara’s Lines for the Fortune Cookies. Lines for the Fortune Cookies 2013 No man is an island. A peninsula, maybe, but not an island. Good personal hygiene will...
View ArticleNaPoWriMo Day 22 – Earth Day
It’s Earth Day. A haiku. Sapphire emerald orb, don’t give up the ghost just yet. We need our Mother.
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