#poetrychallenge - Verses and Hues

20 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 20: The Game of Cricket

The prompt for Day 20 of NaPoWrimo is to write a poem that incorporates the vocabulary and imagery of a specific sport or game. Your poem could invoke chess or baseball, hopscotch or canasta, Monopoly or jai alai. The...

#batsman, #bowler, #century, #cricket, #full toss, #game, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #pacer, #players, #poetrychallenge, #spinner, #yorker

19 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 19: The Myth of Bell

The prompt for Day 19 of NaPoWriMo is to write a poem that recounts a creation myth. It doesn’t have to be an existing creation myth, or even recount how all of creation came to be. It could be,...

#bell, #myth, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #poetrychallenge, #sound, #telephone, #voice

18 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 18: Neologism

The prompt for NaPoWriMo for today is to write a poem that incorporates neologisms. What’s that? Well, it’s a made-up word! Your neologisms could be portmanteaus (basically, a word made from combining two existing words, like “motel” coming from...

#earth, #fairy, #flowers, #grass, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #nature, #neologism, #poetrychallenge, #rain

17 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 17: Nocturne

The prompt of Day 17 of NaPoWriMo is to write a nocturne. In music, a nocturne is a composition meant to be played at night, usually for piano, and with a tender and melancholy sort of sound. Your nocturne...

#beauty, #crescent, #melancholy, #moon, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #night, #nocturne, #poetrychallenge, #Sirius, #sky, #star

16 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 16: A Letter to My Love

The prompt for Day 16 of NaPoWriMo is to take an inspiration from the act of letter-writing. The poem can be in the form of a letter to a person, place, or thing, or in the form of a back-and-forth correspondence. ...

#broken, #heart, #letter, #love, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #nostalgia, #poetrychallenge

15 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 15: Stranded

We are half way through NaPoWriMo. So the prompt for today is to write a poem that reflects on the nature of being in the middle of something. The poem could be about being on a journey and stopping for a break,...

#inspiration, #lost, #middle, #monthly feature, #motivation, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #optimism, #poetrychallenge, #stranded, #uncertainty, #vagueness

14 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 14: Clerihew Quadruplet

The prompt for NaPoWriMo for today is to write a clerihew. This is a four line biographical poem that satirizes a famous person. The first line is the name of the poem’s subject, usually a famous person put in an absurd light,...

#apple, #Bill gates, #clerihew, #fun, #humour, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #poetrychallenge, #queen, #steve jobs, #Tagore

13 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 13: Haibun

The prompt for NaPoWriMo for today has not yet been uploaded so I followed the prompt shared by Colleen for her Weekly Poetry Challenge #28 which requires words “hard” & “soft” or their synonyms to be used in a haiku, tanka...

#aqua, #enigma, #haibun, #haiku, #horizon, #micropoetry, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #nature, #ocean, #poetrychallenge, #sea, #water

12 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 12: Strange Subjects

The prompt for today is to write a poem that explicitly incorporates alliteration (the use of repeated consonant sounds) and assonance (the use of repeated vowel sounds). This doesn’t mean necessarily limiting yourself to a few consonants or vowels, although...

#alliteration, #materialistic, #money, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #poetrychallenge, #questions, #strange, #subjects

11 Apr

NaPoWrimo Day 11: Tanka

Here’s another Tanka inspired by Weekly Tanka Challenge – Week 39 with prompt “Old & New” that serves my second submission for NaPoWriMo Day 11 old rules of new game new rules of the same old game some variations some sluggish...

#5lines, #game, #micropoetry, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #new, #old, #past, #poetrychallenge, #tanka, #weeklytankachallenge -39

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