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Alphabetical April
Day Eighteen of National Poetry Writing Month! Today’s prompt from NaPoWriMo.net: write an abecedarian poem – a poem in which the word choice follows the words/order of the alphabet. You could write a very strict abecedarian poem, in which there … Continue reading
Posted in daily prompt, nature, poetry
Tagged abecedarian poetry, April, NaPoWriMo, springtime
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Beyond Compare
Day Fourteen of National Poetry Writing Month. The muses at NaPoWriMo.net have given us this prompt for today: …write a parody or satire based on a famous poem… take a favorite (or unfavorite) poem of the past, and see if … Continue reading
Dog Walk on a Drizzly Day
The gray sky is low, pushing down on me as my dog and I sidestep puddles in our path. A sense of sadness seeps onto me, settling like heavy mist on a wool coat. Unexplainable loneliness rises up as though … Continue reading
Muse
A new April morning, a new prompt for a poem. My thoughts had gone hither – or was it thither? – to roam. And so I zipped off a quick five-seven-five, to keep my NaPoWriMo challenge streak alive. I tapped … Continue reading
Youthlessness
Oh, to yet be young I tire at the thought of it I’ll sit and look wise
Sea Shanty
It’s Day Ten of National Poetry Writing Month, and today’s challenge from NaPoWriMo.net is to write a sea shanty. these are poems in the forms of songs, strongly rhymed and rhythmic, that sailors might sing while hauling on ropes and … Continue reading
Posted in daily prompt, Oregon, poetry
Tagged NaPoWriMo, Peter Iredale, sea shanty, shipwreck
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Sonnet Sunday
Day Nine of National Poetry Writing Month! Today’s prompt from NaPoWriMo.net: We’re calling today Sonnet Sunday, as we’re challenging you to write in what is probably the most robust poetic form in English. A traditional sonnet is 14 lines long, … Continue reading
Tap Dance and Termite Jig
My brain is a jigsaw puzzle, with gangly termites jigging on the pieces. I saw it with my own ears! So puzzling. Fred Astaire and the six jiggers. Tap shoes on high volume, jackhammer cane dance on my frontal lobe. … Continue reading
Posted in daily prompt, poetry
Tagged Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, NaPoWriMo, tap dance, Twenty Little Poetry Projects
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seasonal conflict
new buds drip cold rain birds trill between high wind gusts no spring in my step