#Na/GloPoWriMo

[writinginnorthnorfolk]

Albatross

It’s a ghost in the night that keeps me awakewith whispering, muttering, sighing,and nudges in my poetic ribs.It pokes me with imageryand ties me up in allegoryuntil I reach for notebook and pen. It’s a ghost in the early morning, a wispof verse draped across my aching neck,a metaphoric albatrosschecking rhymes, ensuringenjambment and caesura makesense, without a syntactical break.By dawn, it’s…

[beautifleye]

Lupus Ghazal

Osteoarthritis introduced a new stream of thought Scooter dreams arriving swiftly Cavities overtaking my mouth Enamel eroding swiftly Sjogren’s dries out your mouth and eyes State of mind spiraling downward swiftly Obesity can lead To increased comorbidities swiftly Kimmie helps in a jiffy Willing to help swiftly

[authormarialberg]

From Where I'm Sitting, I Fill Up the Sky

From Where I’m Sitting, I Fill Up the Sky

Berg in Immediate Surroundings – by Maria L. Berg 2021 The NaPoWriMo prompt is to write a poem about the meaning of your first or last name. The April PAD prompt is to write a poem inspired by your immediate surroundings. My Janus word for the A to Z Challenge is left.As a past tense verb, it means “to have gone”; as an adjective, it means “remaining.” Because I’ve often written about the…

[mooberryink]

》𝕘𝕝𝕠𝕡𝕠𝕨𝕣𝕚𝕞𝕠 QOTD 》What’s one thing you want to do before spring turns to summer? We’re in the final week of na/glopowrimo & here are some of the prompts I’ve been working on & reworking over the past week. Inspiration has been as low as my mood lately, so thank you for putting up with my shares, book community. I’ve been holed up in my den & I need to get out into this spring sunshine. xo Noelani 4.10 》Write a love poem. 4.11 》Write a poem about a very large thing. 4.12 》Write a poem about a very small thing. Form: haibun 4.13 》Write a “good fortune” poem. 4.14 》Write a poem that takes the form of the opening scene of the movie of your life. Form: haiku 5/7/5 Painting: Water Lilies by Claude Monet, 1907 #napowrimo #glopowrimo #nationalpoetrymonth #poetrymonth #poetry_addicts #shortpoems #poetlife #writingpoems #poetrypage #poetrylife #bookstagramlife #nonbookishpost #nonbookpost #totalbooknerd #constantreader #lovepoem #poemsaboutlove #claudemonet #monet #impressionistic https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc0-m9lPSFw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[cbialczak1971]

Check it out here: https://www.napowrimo.net/ and https://youtu.be/bX_xh2do3eM Hello, poets! Happy First Day of Na/GloPoWrimo 2021! I hope you’re ready to plunge into a world of similes, metaphors, line breaks, rhymes, meter, and all of the other tricks and turns of the poem-writing trade. Our featured participant today is Namratha Varadhajaran of Namy Says So, who brings us a poem inspired…

[urdumbstruckbaby]

hàlo, repeat

It’s that time of year! I’m gonna do it again! And in my final quarter of grad school, no less! Because I don’t have enough to do, apparently!!!!!

If anyone’s following this and is unfamiliar with NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, check out my first post from last year here.

Same sort of thing as last year; I take poetry very seriously and not seriously at all at the same time, so the point of me doing this again is to:

Have a creative outlet

Release all my pent-up stress (Lord knows it’s about the same, if not more, than last year)

Connect with people, whether you make yourselves known or not

Show off a tiny bit, okay? I’ve turned in some really good writing for my grad program recently and I’m feeling good about my skillz

Some new goals for this year:

Not anticipate as much and just go with the flow of each day as much as I can

Flex and mine the writing parts of my brain for ideas that I could also use for my final project for school

Use this as WD-40 for writer’s block while working on my summary project

Archive, chronicle, journal--whether I knew it at the time or not, it’s become an historical artifact of this part of my personal timeline. I’m in love with libraries and the practice of documenting and archiving and love that something like this is such a natural way of chronicling my own history, for me.

Cool cool, you should do Na/GloPoWriMo too if you can, the prompt website I follow is here and they post every day in April. Aaaaaahhhhh okay here we go!

[divanthesimmer]

GloPoWriMo - Day 2

GloPoWriMo – Day 2

Silver Lining

Out here

In the Southern Hemisphere

In a country where it’s usually sunny

Times like these are funny

The clouds are grey

Or so they say

  I will live another day

Come what may.

Daily Prompt: “write a poem about a specific place,” from Na/GloPoWriMo.

[hexaflexageek]

Noah and the Strawberry - a poem, NaPoWriMo Day four

Noah and the Strawberry – a poem, NaPoWriMo Day four

It’s day four of National Poetry Writing Month. Not one of my better days. I was doing fine until about 9.15am. Twelve hours later and I’m doing fine again. The intervening hours were a bit of a struggle. Yay, autism! They also contained something very good – taking along a bit of my writing for an exhibition of creative work by local autistic people. Again, Yay, autism!

It’s day four of the…

[garland-on-thy-brow]

Na/GloPoWriMo: write a poem of gifts and joy Gene: *starts a horny poem about Eris*

[I haven't finished it but I think I will]

[writeallywrite]

NaPoWriMo 2023: Day 1 (Without death)

Today’s prompt: Poets, Start Your Engines And here’s our own prompt (optional, as always) for the first day of Na/GloPoWriMo. They say you can���t judge a book by its cover, but they never said you can’t try to write a poem based on a book cover — and that’s your challenge for today!  Crimson, blood, dripping, splatting,Staining a piece of white cloth,Like a scene of a murder,Without a…

[writinginnorthnorfolk]

whole lot of sparkles

sparkle on, twigs in a dazzle of rimesparkle on, bouquets of drooping iciclessparkle on, clocks in a tick-tock of timesparkle on, light off the bells of bicycles sparkle on, salt of retreating tidessparkle on, iridescent starlingssparkle on, diamonds worn by bridessparkle on, smiles in the eyes of my darlings sparkle on, vanity in a room of mirrorssparkle on, dew in a daisy’s eyesparkle on,…

[beautifleye]

Lord have mercy

Lord have mercy Chronic illness allows an uncanny stillness Sifting through what could have been Allows a time of reflection As my hymn has been written Daily, I praise GOD Being able to wake up in my right mind is precious Knowing the faculties of my body have been sustained Butterflies dance upon me like a refrain Reframing ideas of giving up Lifting my head As the wings wipe away my…

[authormarialberg]

So Many Questions

So many questions to write aboutNecessary writing accessorySome fun products from my RedBubble store with my question mark bokeh design. The NaPoWriMo prompt for today is to write a poem that poses a series of questions. The PAD prompt is to write a remix poem. These should work well together. It’ll be interesting to look back through this month’s poems and see which questions spring to…

[peaamlipoetrydoctor]

Maureen writes -

Well, it’s happened again, everyone. We’ve gotten to the final day of another Na/GloPoWriMo! We’ll be back tomorrow with a post to laud our final, featured participant, but in the meantime, let’s get to it!

Today, we have another trio of featured participants. First up, here’s Backwoods Walking‘s lyrical and nostalgic response to Day 29’s “gifts” prompt, and second and third, rather humorous responses from Graham Parker’s Poetry and Poetic Inquiry for Beginners.

Our final featured online magazine is Freeze Ray, which specializes in poems about pop culture. From their most recent issue, I’ll point you to Thomas Fucaloro’s “Into the Spider-verse Deleted Character: Charles Baudelaire Parker, the Loathsome Spiderman” and Heather Knowles’ “Wow (Or, the Time I Served Owen Wilson Coffee).”

And my response is (more or less) as follows -

Morning everyone - and a bittersweet one eh. Thank you to everyone here for your good company as we have written our way through the month! :)

If you do happen to check out the FreezeRay issue highlighted today, I also have a poem there...

It's a weirdo little multi-choice poem, inspired by a (much more serious) poem by Regi Claire, and is a throwback to my HUGE obsession with the movie Clueless - yes, from the time it first came out [that's my vintage, right there!].

May be back / hope to be back / with a cento later :)

PS and thanks to Maureen, for all the inspiration generally and for including my piece as one of the featured poems today :)

[mooberryink]

》ℙ𝕠𝕖𝕥𝕣𝕪 𝕤𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕖 QOTD 》Have you ever received a love poem? Would you be happy to receive one? Another poetry share of recent prompts, wrapping up this writing challenge in the final days of na/glopowrimo. I’m not very satisfied with these, especially the endings; might rework them at some point. Thanks for sticking with me, book friends. xo Noelani 4.15 》Write a poem about something you have absolutely no interest in. (This is a rant disguised as a poem because I’m tired.) 4.16 》Write a curtal sonnet. (omg whhyyyy?) 4.17 》Write a poem about dogs. tw: Potterhead mention Reference: Cowboy Bebop 4.18 》Write a poem that provides five answers to the same question. 4.19 》Write a poem that starts with a command. Form: haiku 5/7/5 Painting: Lane in the Poppy Fields, Ile Saint-Martin by Claude Monet, 1880 #napowrimo #glopowrimo #nationalpoetrymonth #poetrymonth #poetrywriting #poetryflow #communityofpoets #poetsoninstagram #writingislife #writingchallenge #mystuff #mywritings #instawriter #bookstagrammers #nonbookishpost #nonbookpost #bookishgirl #claudemonet #laterpost #lateposts https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc4LIYzrvYt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=