NaPoWriMo 2019 - Verses and Hues

30 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 30: The journey concludes

The month-long writing marathon comes to end! I’m glad I was able to keep pace with the prompts. It was indeed a great journey of learning and writing discipline. Though it became challenging on certain days to pen down,...

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29 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 29: A long wait

Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that meditates, from a position of tranquility, on an emotion you have felt powerfully. A long wait… I’ve been searching for you, Since my youth- With a...

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28 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 28: Sculpting poetry

Today I’d like to challenge you to try your hand at a meta-poem of your own- which are poems about poems. Sculpting poetry Poetry is a science; poetry is an art Poetry is passion; a form of meditation A...

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27 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 27: Shakespearean Sonnet

And now for our (optional) prompt. Our video resource for the day promises to teach you everything you need to know to write a Shakespearean sonnet, but I’m not going to ask you to do that, exactly. Instead, I’d...

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26 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 26: Just when…

Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that uses repetition. You can repeat a word, or phrase. You can even repeat an image, perhaps slightly changing or enlarging it from stanza to stanza, to alter its...

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25 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 25: The changing phase of city

The challenge is to write a poem that: Is specific to a season Uses imagery that relates to all five senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell) Includes a rhetorical question, (like Keats’ “where are the songs of spring?”)...

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24 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 24: Thesaurus of my laptop

Today’s (optional) prompt is to write a poem that, like “Dictionary Illustrations,” is inspired by a reference book. Locate a dictionary, thesaurus, or encyclopedia, open it at random, and consider the two pages in front of you to be...

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23 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 23: The monarch of Arctic

The challenge today is to write a poem about an animal. I had written on Eagle, couple of months ago, for a similar prompt. You can read that here. This time I have written about an endangered species. The...

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22 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 22: Enlivening music

Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that engages with another art form – it might be about a friend of yours who paints or sculpts, your high school struggles with learning to play the French...

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21 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 21: A surrealist dream

Today, the challenge is to write a poem that, incorporates wild, surreal images. Try to play around with writing that doesn’t make formal sense, but which engages all the senses and involves dream-logic. I have tried to combine surrealism...

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