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NAPOWRIMO24 #29: mercurial

#prompt: a poem titled after one of ten words merriam-webster picked from various t. swift songs. i picked 'mercurial' from illicit affairs #this is about the leadup to a manic episode while pretending that's not what's happening lmao. #i like this piece. i wish it was longer but it is what it is. i may come back to her later. #napowrimo 2024 #napowrimo #spilled ink #writeblr #poetry on tumblr #poems on tumblr #poets on tumblr #poem #poetry #poems #poem on tumblr #mania #bipolar #manic episodes #damien.txt #image description in alt

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NAPOWRIMO24 #28: Bucket List

#prompt: write a sijo - a korean form with 3 lines of 14-16 syllables. (in english translations this often becomes 6 lines.) #napowrimo 2024 #napowrimo #spilled ink #poetry #poets on tumblr #poetry on tumblr #poems on tumblr #poem #poems #love poetry on tumblr #love poems on tumblr #love poetry #love poem #writeblr #damien.txt #image description in alt

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NAPOWRIMO24 #27: Independent Bookstore Day

#prompt: write an american sonnet. #I'm honestly not sure that this ended up being discursive OR ending with a bang but uh. Hey it's 14 lines!! And it has a volta. Kinda. #I consider this an absolute win considering that I did spend most of the day out of the house crawling between bookstores. #I bought so much poetry today y'all. It's obscene. #napowrimo 2024 #napowrimo #spilled ink #poetry #poets on tumblr #poetry on tumblr #poems on tumblr #writeblr #poems #poem #ars poetica #independent bookstore day #damien.txt #img desc in alt text

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NAPOWRIMO24 #26: Feed Your Inner Child

#prompt: write a poem that plays w/ alliteration; consonance; and assonance. #those of you who read my stuff with any regularity know that almost all of my poetry plays with these things so i was kinda stuck today #here's a tiny little thing because it's what I ended up having time for. I hope you like it anyway. #(damien why do you refer to your child self as he/she interchangeably? a) bc i still do that and b) bc i was a lil boy and a lil girl) #take your inner child on a playdate this weekend ok? for me and mine. #napowrimo #spilled ink #poets on tumblr #poetry on tumblr #poetry #napowrimo 2024 #writeblr #poems on tumblr #poem #poems #recovery poetry #damien.txt #img desc in alt text

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NAPOWRIMO24 #25: BRIEF MENTAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE

#prompt: a poem based on the proust questionaire. it can be based on your answers to the Qs; on the Qs; or you can write a new questionnaire #i think it's pretty obvious which one i went with. i'm not sure i like the result but i like the concept a lot. i'd like to return to it. #maybe with some answers? formatted more like a questionnaire? idk. it could be good i know it could #right now it is SOOOO teenage emo poetry. but that's okay. sometimes that's what you have in you. #napowrimo 2024 #napowrimo #spilled ink #writeblr #poetry on tumblr #poems on tumblr #poets on tumblr #poetry #poems #poem #damien.txt #img desc in alt text

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NAPOWRIMO24 #24: Spoken Through Hysterics at the Denver Airport

The line "Here we are with love pouring out of every orifice." comes from Moon Grass Rain by Fady Joudah.

#prompt: write a poem that begins with a (not necessarily the first) line from another poem. go somewhere else with it. #this poem starts with a line from ''moon grass rain'' by fady joudah which I read for class this semester. his is much better. read it. #i did another ''write this in 25 minutes and post whatever you have at the end'' exercise for this one. still felt like clawing my skin off #but hey that's life!!! and it's how you know it's a good exercise. and i needed to catch up and now i am caught up so hooray. ://// #napowrimo #napowrimo 2024 #spilled ink #writeblr #poetry #poems #poem #poetry on tumblr #poems on tumblr #poets on tumblr #love poetry on tumblr #love poems on tumblr #love poem #love poetry #queer poetry on tumblr #queer poetry #queer poem #queer poets on tumblr #damien.txt #img desc in alt text

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NAPOWRIMO24 #23: I Saw Batman at the Cemetery

#prompt: write a poem about/involving a superhero. #this one is dedicated to Michael. and that's all I want to say about that. #(also I love you Batman you will always be famous) #napowrimo #napowrimo 2024 #spilled ink #writeblr #poetry on tumblr #poets on tumblr #poems on tumblr #poems #poetry #grief poem #grief poetry #batman #batman poetry #poem #damien.txt #img desc in alt text

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NAPOWRIMO24 #22: the holy or the broken

#off-prompt for this day bc i simply had nothing to write for it. sorry. #instead you get a writing class assignment where we had to use 3 photos in our camera roll and write an ekphrastic poem abt them #this is about a picture of my cat; a picture of some rainbow roses i saw on the street; #and a picture of me kissing the side of my partner's head. #napowrimo 2024 #napowrimo #spilled ink #writeblr #poetry #poem #poems on tumblr #poets on tumblr #poetry on tumblr #love poems on tumblr #love poetry on tumblr #love poem #love poetry #queer poetry on tumblr #queer poets on tumblr #queer poem #queer poetry #img desc in alt text #damien.txt

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NAPOWRIMO24 #21: emergency zone

#prompt: write a poem that focuses on a single colour. #this is uh. vaguely inspired by the prompt. did you know there is a shade of orange called ''emergency zone orange'' #i found this out and started thinking of the apocalypse. and then i wrote this. so there's that. #''bonfire'' ''alloy'' and ''burnt'' are also all shades of orange. #this is a really loose interpretation but it's what i have for you today. #''today'' like the prompt wasn't 3 days ago. whatever #napowrimo 2024 #napowrimo #spilled ink #writeblr #poetry on tumblr #poets on tumblr #poems on tumblr #poetry #poems #poem #img desc in alt text #damien.txt

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NAPOWRIMO24 #20: Stonewall

#prompt: write a poem recounting a historical event. #this is (perhaps extremely obviously) a found poem from the wikipedia page about the stonewall riots. #idk i thought it would be fun to do a historical event poem specifically using the language from a wikipedia page. #these are always so much harder than i expect them to be though lmao. #anyway don't @ me about the fact that this is uh. (checks notes) 4 days late. i was on vacation okay #i'm back and still on spring break for another week and i'm catching up. worry about yourself #napowrimo 2024 #napowrimo #spilled ink #poetry #poetry on tumblr #poets on tumblr #writeblr #queer poets on tumblr #queer poem #queer poetry #queer poetry on tumblr #trans poets on tumblr #trans poem #transgender poetry #trans poetry #found poem #found poetry #wikipedia poetry #wikipedia poem #damien.txt #img desc in alt text

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NAPOWRIMO24 #19: wine-drunk wiki-walking on my wedding anniversary

#prompt: i'm actually off-prompt today on account of i slept the entire bus ride to [redacted vacation locale] #so i did not have time to write the whole grandiose poem i wanted to write for today's prompt which i actually quite liked #may come back to that one. instead here is a tiny little thing i noodled with as an assignment about writing a poem based on a wikipage #(obligatory disclaimers: it's not my wedding anniversary and i am not wine-drunk. sorry) #napowrimo 2024 #napowrimo #love poetry #love poem #love poems on tumblr #love poetry on tumblr #queer poets on tumblr #poetry on tumblr #poets on tumblr #poems on tumblr #spilled ink #writeblr #found poetry #found poem #damien.txt #img desc in alt text

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NAPOWRIMO24 #18: Hawkfish

#prompt: a poem where the speaker expresses a desire to be someone/something else + explains why. #did you know that the dwarf hawkfish can change sex between male and female. many fish can change sex once #but the dwarf hawkfish can change many times either direction which is much rarer. #anyway i kind of IMPLIED why rather than fully explained it but iykyk. yk #something short today. i'm packing for vacation + temporarily off my adhd meds which is a nasty combo. #hopefully tomorrow i can do something longer that i like more. but i don't hate this one at least. #napowrimo #napowrimo 2024 #poetry on tumblr #poets on tumblr #poems on tumblr #trans poets on tumblr #transgender poetry #trans poem #trans poetry #spilled ink #writeblr #poetry #poem #damien.txt #img desc in alt text

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NAPOWRIMO24 #17: another brick in the wall (part 2)

#prompt: write a piece inspired by a piece of music and have them share a title. #ooh i am not happy at all with this one but i am once again skirting up against the edge of the day's deadline. #i wanted to write about an entirely different song originally (probably a hozier song) but uh. shit happens i guess. here's this #it is ofc inspired by another brick in the wall pt 2 by pink floyd. can you tell i'm feeling rly good about school recently #whatever spring break starts friday and i'll have time to write poetry i'm happy with again. for now there's this #napowrimo 2024 #napowrimo #spilled ink #poetry on tumblr #poets on tumblr #poems on tumblr #writeblr #damien.txt #image description in alt

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NAPOWRIMO24 #16: Last Few Winters

#prompt: write a poem that focuses on sensory details of a moment and visual descriptions before going into a philosophical + #seemingly-unrelated last line. #been thinking abt climate change recently and how it feels like i'll never experience another real winter + how much i used to hate it. #napowrimo 2024 #napowrimo #spilled ink #writeblr #poetry on tumblr #poems on tumblr #poets on tumblr #poetry #poems #poem #winter poem #winter poetry #image description in alt #damien.txt

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NAPOWRIMO24 #15: Occultation

#prompt: become inspired by the stamps collected on the stampbot twitter. #so i also needed to write a poem for class that was technically overdue (i have been neglecting my academic prompts for napowrimo ones) #and this week we were assigned to write NATURE POEMS. which i was not a fan of as i am an indoors person lmao #anyway i wanted to write about the eclipse and so i scoured the stampsbot twitter til i found an eclipse stamp. #obeying the letter of the law if not the spirit... but hey killing two birds with one stone! #anyway fuck yeah everyone else wrote about the eclipse a week ago when it happened but here i am a week late w/ dunkin' :) #i don't even really like this piece but gahhh i am really not a nature poetry guy okay. and there were limits with the class prompt- #that i didn't even TELL y'all about. i was supposed to LIMIT METAPHORS. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT DID TO ME #anyway whatever it's a poem i wrote it today it counts #napowrimo 2024 #napowrimo #spilled ink #poetry on tumblr #poets on tumblr #poems on tumblr #great north american eclipse #solar eclipse 2024 #solar eclipse #poetry #poem #writeblr #damien.txt #img desc in alt text

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NAPOWRIMO24 #14: THE AUTHOR RESPONDS TO HIS DECADE-OLD SUICIDE NOTE

#prompt: write a poem of at least 10 lines using anaphora (each line begins with the same word/phrase). #this is one of my fave things to do in poetry so i was pretty psyched to see today's prompt. #the bones of this poem already existed for a response to an assignment earlier this year but they needed intense reworks #and there was no anaphora to it before except some repetition of the phrase ''because''. this is a much different poem than it was 2 mos ag #it's a lot more solid in its sense of self now. i like it much more than i did this morning. #(also just to cover my bases: this was loosely inspired by ocean vuong's poem reasons for staying. i think it exists on its own merit- #enough that i probably don't *have* to say that. but just in case someone reads it and thinks ''hey wait a minute'' lmao) #napowrimo 2024 #napowrimo #spilled ink #writeblr #poems on tumblr #poetry on tumblr #poets on tumblr #queer poets on tumblr #queer poetry #poetry #recovery poetry #tw suicide ment #tw suicide #tw suicide attempt #damien.txt #img desc in alt text

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NAPOWRIMO24 #13: ars poetica

#prompt: create a word bank of 10 simple words. 5 sense nouns. 3 concrete nouns. 2 verbs. create rhymes for those words. write poem. #it doesn't have to be an actual rhyming poem but focus on SOUNDPLAY. #i made my partner give me the words without telling him what they were for so i couldn't cheat and come up with easy ones. #he gave me: doll. lemon. rose. clamour. hair. hat. desk. sunshine. skip. kiss. #this one is incoherent probably but i had SO MUCH FUN writing it i literally don't care if anyone else likes it bc I DO!!!! #napowrimo 2024 #napowrimo #spilled ink #writeblr #poetry on tumblr #poets on tumblr #poems on tumblr #poetry #poem #ars poetica #(technically. kind of.) #damien.txt #img desc in alt text