#napowrimo day 26

[amalgamationink]

[torrentialmonsoon]

we converge like the teals and turquoises of the caribbean sea; we rise and fall like the tsunamis inside me.

[dobaara]

the house plants. 08/26. S.R.

napowrimo day 26 using @mercuriian's prompts (x): a poem about a plant

transcript under the cut:-

The house plants

I collect them like seashells. A few of them are seeds hiding between the muddy soil which find a home in my nails when I bring them in. I hope to mould myself the way I did to the soil in the pots, some which escaped from a lover's quarrel thrown onto the streets. The leaves lie down on my porch like the ladies from a renaissance painting, their eyes on me and their right hands supporting their heads. I begin to mould myself like a plant. When I forget to water myself, my plants dry, I forget to tend to my roots and they wail. I am buried and I feel at home. Winds blow in and my frozen carcass is found at their feet. I bloom every year, as someone new over and over again. Burying is an eternal cycle. They thrive at the farthest corner of the house with a light in it. I think I'll give them enough love to make them survive.

— S.R.

[beautifleye]

Various Thoughts

I ought to not be petty As they drive down the road in that loud Chevy Hearing screeching sounds and gasps now my heart is heavy As I waited for my bus I ran into my high school buddy’s mom Betty My soul is anchored in the Lord Yet my thoughts seem to be continuously in a mixing bowl Struggling to correct future plans that now seem cajoled Sights set on higher standards now I’m on a…

[writinginnorthnorfolk]

Gráinne Ellen

Her names originate from myth and legend, and she bears them with a graceful nonchalance. From the Celtic word for sun, Gráinne, daughter of Cormac, was promised to the hero Fionn mac Cumhaill. She could be a descendant of Gráinne Ní Mháille, landowner of Mayo and Irish pirate queen. It’s hard to pronounce, even if you find it cool, and it’s harder still when spelling, it was easier to call…

[pattytacuri]

Happy Poetry Month! Napowrimo-Day 26

🥹🥹🎉 Emily appreciates her employees

[blackinkmess]

NaPoWriMo 2023 - Day 26

I close my eyes and remember the waiting, the endless nights that tugged at my soul. I remember the wandering the feeling of getting lost the grieving that consumed my days. Time is so mysterious the way it makes pain seem so much smaller in hindsight. It’s hard to believe all that I’ve survived these past few years, the ways I have shattered and how I have put myself back together again. I open my eyes and soak in the sunlight, grateful for this opportunity to rise.

[mabhsavage]

NaPoWriMo Day 26: Bee

Oh to be a bee Buzzing happily Fat and fluffy (I’ve got that covered) Getting shit done Sweetness in every job Nectar, pollen, honey Head in the flowers Resting in the sun Flying in a physics-defying manner Goddess-kept and loved A busy, buzzy, bee Harbinger of summer I nod my head to thee.

[nickchristian86]

NaPoWriMo 2024 - The Collected Works

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[secretsinthedarkthepodcast]

NaPoWriMo (2024) Day 26: Tough talk

Prompt 26 asks us to introduce some alliteration, assonance and consonance to our poems so here I have a bare minimum. Enjoy. Tough talk kid, you'll never get these years backThe ones you wasted back on bed crying, The trips that stood cancelled In favour of the painThat would have ridIf you did the deed, If you lived more alive than dead.Real reason of your little deaths Are because you ran Sat…

[astoryscribbler]

NaPoWriMo - Day 26

The Wicked Witch 

Take a deep breath. Its time to brace

For whatever storm cloud awaits

Behind your sickly smile

hiding venomous fangs

Today will you be kind and calm?

Or will pretence of importance

Win out again? Ready

For us to fall in line

Pretend we're your lambs to shepherd

For you, teamwork looks like orders

Given without a word

Expecting us to follow

Sacrifice peers for your ego

Minimise every molehill

And pretend they're not

Mountains forged from our flesh

You don't see how bright the sky is now

How much easier it is to breathe

No poison to choke on in the air

No more praying for the day you leave

[awyldepoetry]

Limelighter

Do you dance anytime that they ask, is it that? will you rise on command to amuse? And only the laughter, only the eyes seem to settle the restlessness in you brief, fleeting, you exasperate newly choreography you'll demean then deploy

Do I wait to be wound like a toy, is it that? do I suspend until I get to put on? And only the charm, only the wonder seem to soften the disquietude in me steady, lasting, I hold back, interlude games I'll rebuff, then play to win

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A. Wylde

April 27th, 2024 NaPoWriMo 26/30 (Day 25 Prompt)

[coloradomcpoeticslave]

Baffling Haiku (Poem #26, NaPoWriMo 2024)

By Daniel Paiz As these last few days of NaPoWriMo winds down, it’s another chance to ponder life and the world surrounding us. There are some fun and entertaining things happening, and there are some truly dreadful things happening. It’s understandable if one looks away from the bad due to how it seemingly overwhelms the good, day after day. However, it is important to recognize that bad stuff…

[mbfrezon]

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NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 26

Never a postmark • your words come to me again • unsullied

[authormarialberg]

Poetry Month Challenges Day 26: Value and Vanity

Poetry Month Challenges Day 26: Value and Vanity #poetry #photography #PAD #NaPoWriMo #AtoZChallenge

Value in Vanity by Maria L. Berg 2023 I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. Marcus Aurelius Value & Vanity I found the contradiction of value and vanity in the definition of vanity itself: excessive pride in one’s appearance, qualities, abilities,…

[rustbeltjessie]

Rust Belt Jessie’s NaPoWriMo 2023 Prompts: #26

mystery solved

In this poem, I want you to solve a mystery.

But not an important mystery, or even, necessarily, a real mystery. Nothing like you’d see on a True Crime show. I’m talking things like:

How come, on the first windy day in spring, there are globs of insulation floating all over town?

Why is the new children’s dentist’s office called ToothTown?

What are those sounds I hear coming from my neighbor’s house every night? (What’s he building in there?)

Think of a mystery you want to solve, then solve it in the poem.

(This exercise is from my ebook of NaPoWriMo prompts, which can be found here.)