NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 11- My thirty one-liners
Todayâs resource is grieftolight, an Instagram account where you will find a wealth of poems.Finally, our optional prompt for the day honors the âonesâ in the number 11. Today, weâd like to challenge you to write either a monostich, which is a one-line poem, or a poem made up of one-liner style jokes/sentiments. Need inspiration? Take a look at Joe Brainardâs poem â30 One-Linersâ or FrankâŚ
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NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 10 - Cabinet Member Loses Trousers
Our resource for the day is the YouTube channel of Canadaâs Griffin Poetry Prize, where youâll find videos of past prize nominees as well as discussions of the art of translation.
And now for our optional prompt! Ezra Pound famously said that âpoetry is news that stays news.â While we donât know about that, the news can have a certain poetry to it. Today, weâd like to challenge you to write aâŚ
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NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 8 : An Ode to Barnie, the dinosaur
Todayâs daily resource is Poem Today, a twitter account where youâll typically find at least one poem every day, and usually more.
Our prompt for today (optional, as always) takes its inspiration from Pablo Neruda, the Chilean-born poet and Nobel Prize Winner. While he is most famous in the English-speaking world for his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, he also wrote more thanâŚ
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NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 7- Wish you were here
And last but not least, weâre taking it easy with todayâs (optional) prompt. Today, weâd like to challenge you to write a poem titled âWish You Were Hereâ that takes its inspiration from the idea of a postcard. Consistent with the abbreviated format of a postcard, your poem should be short, and should play with the idea of travel, distance, or sightseeing. If youâre having trouble gettingâŚ
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NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 6- Will it kill you?
Our featured resource for the day is âA Poetry Channelâ on YouTube, where youâll find an eclectic array of poems being read with accompanying images and video.
And now for our (optional) prompt. Todayâs weâd like to challenge you to write a poem rooted in âweird wisdom,â by which we mean something objectively odd that someone told you once, and that has stuck with you ever since. Need anâŚ
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NaPoWriMo 2024, Day 5- Take 2 : Joy of the leaf, the little duckling and the child.
I did a second take on today's prompt which was to write a poem from three different things/beings point of view. Joy, said the leafIs water washing down my face and backallowing me to breathe in peace andmaking me look all glossy and newJoy, said the little ducklingIs following my mother and my siblings in a blue lake which holds tall green trees and strong snow-capped mountains in itsâŚ
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NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 5 - Luck for the old man, the Hibiscus and the Lion
Our resource for the day is not a social media account, but a podcast that weâve featured in past years (and is good enough to bear repeating):Â The Slowdown. Youâll find a poem here every day â you can listen online and read the transcript with the daily poem as well.
Now, letâs get to our optional prompt! Today weâd like you to start by taking a look at Alicia Ostrikerâs poem, âThe Blessing ofâŚ
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Published: Poem 'Order of the Day'
Iâm delighted to share my poem, âOrder of the Dayâ has been published in the magazine, MasticadoresUSA. Thank you, Barbara, for giving this poem a home, and for providing writers a space to share their work. Hereâs a verse from the poem:How do I talk about what is âout of orderâ?When I no longer knowThe order of thingsTake the supermarket round the corner, for instance-the one with two entrancesâŚ
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NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 4- Cave-Dwelling Birds
Todayâs resource is the Instagram account Read a Little Poetry, where you will in fact find a lot of poetry.
Our (optional) prompt for the day challenges you to write a poem in which you take your title or some language/ideas from The Strangest Things in the World. First published in 1958, the book gives shortish descriptions of odd natural phenomena, and is notable for both its authorâs turn ofâŚ
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NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 3- The Clothline
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NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 2 - Paruppu Payasam- If only Shakespeare knew you
Todayâs poetry resource is Secret Chords, an Instagram account where you will find a new poem every day.
Today, weâd like to challenge you to write a platonic love poem. In other words, a poem not about a romantic partner, but some other kind of love â your love for your sister, or a friend, or even your love for a really good Chicago deep dish pizza. The poem should be written directly to theâŚ
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NaPoWriMo 2024 : Day 1 : Christmas Day
Todayâs resource is the twitter account of the poet Tom Snarsky, where you will find a plethora of poems to peruse!âToday, weâd like to challenge you to write â without consulting the book â a poem that recounts the plot, or some portion of the plot, of a novel that you remember having liked but that you havenât read in a long time.â
It was hard to choose between so many favourites. Amongst theâŚ
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Friday Fictioneers 290324: Dance
The prompt for this weekâs Friday Fictioneerâs challenge hosted by Rochelle, is the below photo by Dale.
âCome on, darling. Weâre getting late to class,â Sonia coaxed Sara, locking the car.Sara dragged her feet to the single storey building that housed her nightmare. Why did she have to learn to dance? Every minute of the forty-five-minute class was pure torture.âCan you hurry. Here, let me takeâŚ
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Easter Sunday & NaPoWriMo 2024- Day 0: The window
First, Iâd like to wish everyone who celebrates, a very Happy and blessed Easter!
Itâs that time of the year again- Iâm talking about NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month). This is my 6th year participating in NaPoWriMo. I wasnât sure about participating this year as I was due for a surgery on the 25th of March. Thatâs why I traveled to India. However, the doctor said, I should wait andâŚ
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Tanka Tuesday 26.3.24, Art Diaries : The girl in the yellow dress
This week for the tanka tuesday challenge hosted by Colleen Chesebro, Iâm writing a series of tanka. The weather is cool in Dhaka. Itâs been raining and weâve had thunderstorms, lightning and short bursts of rain. I used the kigo word âBirds enter cloudsâ. âTranquil Dawnâ and âHoliâ which is the festival of colors celebrated by Hindus to celebrate Spring and is symbolic of the victory of goodâŚ
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First year anniversary
I woke up feeling different today. I wasnât sure why but it felt like something had lifted off me leaving me lighter. Since I had no idea why I was feeling the way I was, I decided it was the thunder, lightning and rain we had the previous night that had worked its magic. There was a bolt of lightning at around 2.30 a.m. that completely lit up our bedroom. Kind of like âManifestâ (if youâveâŚ
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Dhaka Diaries : Tanka Tuesday, Art of the week, Thankful Thursday
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