#napowrimo day 30

[blood-sweat-pencraft]

And what, precisely, were you doing in the garden?

Smashing the padlock and trespassing

Eating the apple and getting into trouble

Looking for answers from the gardener

It is like three different people talking at the same time

And every word means three different things

He was answering too many questions too quickly

And they were stacking up in my head like loaves of bread in a factory

Like being corrected by three mathematicians and still not seeing my mistake

Found poem source:

Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Vintage Books, New York, 2003. pp: 7-8, 31-33, 59-63, 85-6, 134

#found poem #poetry #writing #thepoeming #amwriting #writers on tumblr #napowrimo #30 day challenge #mark haddon #the curious incident of the dog in the night time #banned books #bans off our poetry

[shloks23]

April 4

across the dotted line 99 seconds to anything else

Source: A blackout culled from p. 23 of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon.

#found poetry #vispo #thepoeming #napowrimo 2024 #national poetry writing month #blackout poetry #30 poems in 30 days

[creativefrustrations]

Day 26 - Bite

Hold still. Let me test the pulse in your neck with my teeth. Let me press the threat of my hand around your wrists; the cut of sharp nail pinned to your palms. Hitch of breath, crescendo approaching as the heat rebounds between our bodies. Feel your life pass across my tongue as it traces the road of an artery down the map of you; a world to conquer in this moment as you, caged bird, sing my name like a deity.

#napowrimo #poetry #30 poems in 30 days #writing #creative writing #spilledink #writerscorner #new poets society #queer poetry

[adreamingskin]

Poetry Competitions, Submissions & Opportunities – MARCH 2024

Spring is here and with it (finally) over 150 poetry competitions, writing submissions and opportunities open or with deadlines in March 2024.​For the first half of this month I was in autistic shutdown due to a very difficult personal situation that is coming to a head this week after 16 years. I am hopeful that this release will remove significant stress from my life and allow me to give time,…

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[guns-wanderingsoul]

April 1: to dream alone.

Source: Found Poetry from Page 8 of The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.

#thepoeming #shirleyjackson #hauntingofhillhousepoems #found poetry #30 poems in 30 days #napowrimo

[stitchwitchsapprentice]

National Poetry Month 13/30

Apology:

Dear Friend,

I considered writing you a broken sonnet

but I do not feel like rhyming.

I apologize for my timing.

Ten years ago, I left you behind

out of sight, out of mind

and now I find

friendship

is not what I'm seeking

I only care now about talking shop

but between two struggling writers

what's the difference,

really?

#National Poetry Month #30 poems in 30 days #napowrimo #original poetry #poem

[trickstersaint]

it’s getting dark. i don’t know if you’ve noticed. i noticed—i always do, i feel the loss of light like it’s a loss of air, it’s like the world ends when the sun goes down. i don’t know if it’s the same for you. i hope not.

every night another story closes out. it’s unhealthy to let yourself die every night, i think, just to be born again in the morning, but i have to let things go. i have to let this fade to black. 

i have (had) many friends who loved winter, loved the dark: and when i said my favorite season was summer, they couldn’t understand. that’s alright. i don’t understand a love of the last cold vestiges of the year. i’m clinging to long days like a lifeline (and i think the short days were a relief, for them. a refuge.)

it’s getting dark, dear. i know you’d like to continue living, i know it’s the time for you to come alive—but i have to lay my head down on a pillow, now, and lay a weary soul to rest. it’ll be someone different in the morning, maybe. but it’ll be in the morning. always in the morning. 

#april 30 #napowrimo #escapril #from the prompt: it's getting dark #could've sworn i wrote a poem with the opening line 'it's getting dark dear' sometime before this but i can't find it elle oh elle #and that's the end of napowrimo! lost a week's worth of poems to being sick but that's ok. i don't blame myself #finishing strong with a poem that made me go 'hey maybe i Am a little bit depressed' dkfgjhsf #have a good day everybody! might not be back with a poem Tomorrow but i want to write them more often now :) #hope everybody who started reading these poems cause of napowrimo enjoyed them and sticks around for the future ily <3

[coloradomcpoeticslave]

Drained (Poem #24, NaPoWriMo 2024)

By Daniel Paiz Sometimes you just need to chill out, relax, take a break, because you are drained. Too often these days there’s an obsession with being busy, with being “productive”. If you’re tired, you aren’t always going to create something that turns out how you wanted to. This NaPoWriMo entry is going to dig into this just a little bit. Drained Palest white you’ve ever seen to the point…

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[writinginnorthnorfolk]

The Poet Gives Up

Vincent might have felt differently when he tried to paint a starless night in Saint-Remy: the poet detests the pungency of words stagnating in her mind like a humid day. She sees them fall, lumpen and heavy flocks of birds that scratch her with censorious claws as they ascend again into phonemes, oscillating with unsatisfactory memes. Now she no longer writes poetry, buds open, fresh and…

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[lipstickonmugs]

"Brace for impact"

This illicits fear

throat tight

every muscle ready to be torn apart

But

it's all I've wanted to do

Make an impact

We love a racing heart

Feel accomplished in a spirit broken

So it's decided

there's no need to brace yourself

I will dissolve

and leave you

with nothing to remember me by

...

b.t.a. Napowrimo 2023, Day #14

#a short one #and although i havent posted everyday ive written a bit each day sooo just fyi #napowrimo #napowrimo 2023 #14/30 #mine

[p4indemands2scream]

Hello interwebs :3 It’s day 3, but prompt #2 because school is a thing and I am still behind. And exhausted. I’ll get Day 3 up tonight though! This prompt had a few parts to it, but I am SO OBSESSED with the final poem. Let’s just get to the poetry!

Prompt: Surrealist Question poem inspired by Romanian-born poet, Paul Celan. Pick 5-10 words from the following list and write a question for each word. Make a one line answer for each question. Logic not required, these are surrealist answers after all. Place all answers on a new page and see if you can create a poem with just the answers.

Chosen words: thunder, ghost, fog, salt, miracle, song, river

I Was a Magic Tree House Kid

Rolling anger from the Pantheon’s court room

The last whisps of energy from a stubborn soul

A smoky, misty, wet mystery

The key ingredient to not passing out

A Disney Princess happy ending full of hope

A Southern comfort staple including the ingredients:

Sugar

Spice

Rythym

Symphonic peace

A rushing flow of water leading you back home

#napowrimo #poems and quotes #poem a day #30 day challenge #national poetry month #poetry #spilled poetry #poem #surrealism #paul celan #poetry prompts

[blood-sweat-pencraft]

People think computers are different from people

But I was frightened in two different ways

And they were in inverse proportion to one another

So that the total fear remained a constant

A new force altogether like electricity

A fixed pair of crossed spanners

I should pull my stupid self together

Found poem source:

Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Vintage Books, New York, 2003. pp: 99, 107, 115, 136

#found poem #poetry #writing #thepoeming #amwriting #writers on tumblr #napowrimo #30 day challenge #mark haddon #the curious incident of the dog in the night time #banned books #bans off our poetry #fear

[schuylerpeck]

Woot woot!! It’s NAPOWRIMO time, babeeeyyy!! Pen a poem everyday for 30 days or browse around and write when you can—the choice is yours. ❤️ I’ve loved making prompt lists over the years and I’m excited to see what this years brings. Be silly! Write some bad poems! Write some okay poems! Enjoy ya’self. Love you. ❤️

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[creativefrustrations]

It is March 31st.

Meaning tomorrow is the beginning of Napowrimo and the 30 poems in 30 days challenge of 2023!

I will be posting the prompts here and on my other blog. I hope people enjoy and attempt some of the challenges in store.

#creative writing #poetry #writing #poem #writerscorner #queer poetry #new poets society #prose poetry #spilledink #prose poem #napowrimo #30 poems in 30 days

[septembersung]

April as poetry month also means NaPoWriMo - write 30 poems in 30 days.

One complete set of prompts here

Daily prompts posted here

#napowrimo #April is national poetry month #napowrimo 2024 #I wrote the core of my first chapbook in NaPoWriMo 2014 #poetry

[on-poetry]

30 Prompts for NaPoWriMo

Taken from my article on having a successful NaPoWriMo :)

Write about an object that has a lot of nostalgic value for you. As a bonus challenge, try to write about this object without directly stating what it is in your poem.

Write a poem about your hometown: how you feel about it, the connection you have to it, how it has shaped you (for better or worse).

Collect scraps of “junk writing”—spam mail, credit card bills, newspaper clippings, billboard text, etc. Stitch those texts together into a poem.

Write a poem about a piece of clothing that reflects something important or essential about who you are as a person.

Find something dark and hidden inside your brain, your body, your heart. Shine a light on it. What do you see?

Think of a memory where the details aren’t clear. Fill in the details in a poem.

It’s spring! Write about coming out of a long hibernation—either literal or metaphorical.

Flash of lightning. Crack of the baseball bat. Stoplight turns green. Write about a time when a seemingly mundane event created a stroke of inspiration.

You look into the lens of something—a camera, a telescope, a pair of binoculars, etc.—and something strange peers back at you. What do you see?

Write about an event that you might interpret as a sign from a higher power. This higher power could be a god, aliens, the universe, etc.

Write a poem in which two people begin as lovers and end as enemies. OR the other way around.

Write a poem about what keeps you warm. Perhaps it’s a hot cup of tea, the glow of a happy memory, or the light at the end of the tunnel.

Write a poem that involves diametrically opposing views about something simple. For example, two people might bicker over the proper way to brew coffee, or whether a hotdog is a sandwich.

What do you see in the mirror? Write a “self-portrait” poem.

Spend some time listening to other people talk. It can be in a public space, a voice on the radio or TV, or outside listening to your neighbors. (Just don’t get caught!) Use a line from someone else’s conversation as the starting place for a poem.

Write about two opposing yet co-existing realities.

Write about an important realization you had, at a time when you felt particularly alone.

What’s something you’ve seen hundreds, even thousands of times, but has never lost its beauty? Write an ode to this thing’s beauty.

“Apophenia” is the human tendency to see patterns in random information. Write a poem about patterns that seem to be connected, even if they’re completely random.

Write a poem in the form of a letter, addressed to a specific person.

Write a poem from the perspective of a detective. They’re not solving crime, necessarily—you might write about a detective for lost things, for past emotions, for new opportunities, etc.

Explain something to a younger version of yourself. How to survive heartbreak, solve differential equations, drive, avoid bad people, etc.

Write about a mundane task that (secretly) doubles as a magical ritual.

Smells are one of the most powerful triggers for memory. They also make for impactful imagery. Write a poem that begins with a smell. Let the smell waft into memory, then write from there.

Write a poem that uses all of these words: chartreuse, guide, safe, sweat, wall, presentation, manor, perfume.

Close your eyes, flip through a poetry book, and put your finger on a page. Whatever word you’re pointing at, use it as a title for your poem, and write from there.

Write a poem about family traditions: keeping them, breaking them, or anything else you can do with them.

Write a poem that begins at the end of something, then moves backwards.

Write a poem inspired a certain genre of music. Try to write in the style of that genre—for example, pop is rhythmic, rock alternates in staccatos and riffs, etc. (You might be interested in Jazz Poetry for inspiration. Learn about it here.)

“If _______ didn’t exist for a day.” Fill in the blank, and write about the results of something not existing – but only for 24 hours.

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