#NaPoWriMo - Verses and Hues

13 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 13: Sands of Time

NaPoWriMo Day 13 Prompt: Write a poem in the form of a news article you wish would come out tomorrow. Artoonsinn Prompt: Write a poem on the theme “Sands of Time”. I didn’t quite follow the format of news...

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12 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 12: Waltzing to Life’s Rhythm

NaPoWriMo Day 12: I’m calling this one “Past and Future.” This prompt challenges you to write a poem using at least one word/concept/idea from each of two specialty dictionaries: Lempriere’s Classical Dictionary and the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction. A hat tip...

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11 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 11: A Letter to Leonardo Da Vinci

NaPoWriMo Day 11: This is a twist on a prompt offered by Kay Gabriel during a meeting she facilitated at the Poetry Project last year. Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a two-part poem, in the form of an...

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10 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 10: My Treasure of Love

NaPoWriMo Day 10 Prompt: It’s called “Junk Drawer Song,” and comes to us from the poet Hoa Nguyen. First, find a song with which you are familiar – it could be a favorite song of yours, or one that just...

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09 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 9: The Spotlight Effect

I followed the prompt given by Artoonsinn Poetry Parlour for today. It requires us to write a poem on the theme “spotlight.” Poem: The Spotlight Effect The glitz and glamour Of the virtual and social life The number of...

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08 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 8: I wait for you

NaPoWriMo Day 8 Prompt: Today, I’d like to challenge you to read a few of the poems from Spoon River Anthology, and then write your own poem in the form of a monologue delivered by someone who is dead. Not...

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07 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 7: Dreams

NaPoWriMo Day 7 Prompt: And now, for our (optional) prompt! There are many different poetic forms. Some have specific line counts, syllable counts, stresses, rhymes, or a mix-and-match of the above. Of the poetic forms that are based on...

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06 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 6: A Riveting Journey

NaPoWriMo Day 6 Prompt: Our prompt yesterday asked you to take inspiration from another poem, and today’s continues in the same vein. This prompt, which comes from Holly Lyn Walrath, is pretty simple. As she explains it here: “Go to a...

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05 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 5: Poem: The Cloak of Hope

NaPoWriMo Day 5 Prompt: This prompt challenges you to find a poem, and then write a new poem that has the shape of the original, and in which every line starts with the first letter of the corresponding line...

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04 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 4: Floating in the desert

NaPoWriMo Day 4 Prompt: Poetry often takes us to strange places – to feelings and actions that are hard to express except through the medium of a poem. To the “liminal,” in other words – a place or sensation...

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