These mountains were named after you
Touching your heart like climbing peaks,
Destined to reach the perfect view
These mountains were named after you.
Your eyes from up here; gorgeous blue
Hiking through galaxies - legs weak,
These mountains were named after you
Touching your heart like climbing peaks.
I love jazz! Oh, how I dig it;
Like Miles Davis, “Blue in Green.”
Night arrives, my mind goes twilit,
I love jazz, oh. How I dig it.
That modal mood makes my brain split.
Some square cats say: “What do you mean?”
I love jazz! “Oh, how?” I dig it.
Like Miles Davis. Blue, in green.
—Jessie Lynn McMains, “Untitled (Jazz Triolet)” (NaPoWriMo 2023, Day 4; prompt from NaPoWriMo.net)
Life has become a gentler thing;
I don’t want to die anymore.
Winter has passed. It’s time for spring.
Life has become a gentler thing.
I’m smiling again. Heart, take wing
and glimpse the tomorrows in store.
Life has become a gentler thing.
I don’t want to die anymore.
On Resilience
I kiss you while the world’s in flames.
We will survive in the ashes.
In the bombed-out dawn, with no shame,
I kiss you. While the world’s in flames,
we carry on. We make the same
jokes as always. We keep our passion.
I kiss you. While the world’s in flames,
we will survive in the ashes.
On Ronan
The weight of you mends all my wounds.
I’m saved by the scent of your fur.
On the days I am dazed, confused,
the weight of you mends all my wounds.
We snuggle in the bed like spoons.
The world melts away when you purr.
The weight of you mends all my wounds.
I’m saved by the scent of your fur.
Time also came up a lot in the special section of the Jan/Feb 2020 Poets&Writers Magazine. Keith S. Wilson who wrote Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love (assoc link) his writer’s block remedy is: “Time. They say time heals all wounds, which is a lie, but it is true that no wound healed without time. I hope that given enough time, I will come to an epiphany or someone will happen to teach me just the…
Prompt: you are madly in love with someone on the other side of the world and you know you can never be together, so you force yourself to move on
Highly specific prompt for an eight line poem but I'll do my best xD
I fear I have to let you go
Despite the aching of my heart.
In hope I let my loving grow,
I fear I have to let you go
Because this distance makes it so;
Though minds are close, my mind must part.
I fear I have to let you go
Despite the aching of my heart.
Let me live in this melody.
Of this I swear to always sing-
The way you guide me so gently.
Let me live in this melody-
A humility that set free.
Grace was humming-the softest ring.
Let me live in this melody-
Of this I swear to always sing.
Following @the-francakes lead. Excellent idea, and thanks for the tag.
My takeaway from this list is that people are meh about drabbles, non-smut, and poetry.
My Top 5 LEAST Read (or kudos) Fics:
Winter Koi (G, 1k)
Not fanfic. Just a story. It actually has a lot more hits than I'd expected.
Sonorous Sonnet (M, 150)
This is possibly the best thing I've written.
For Drarry Drabble Challenge, August, 2021.
Prompt: "Hold My Butterbeer."
Wordcount: 150
Notes: This is a sonnet... mostly.
Ten syllables per line, alternating stressed syllables, ABAB rhyme scheme, crammed into exactly 150 words.
It got weird.
Secret Ingredients (M, 1.3k)
This was an alternate beginning of a fic. It's in the Crack This WIP collection. If you want to finish it, let me know.
Summary:
Meal trays in Azkaban are monotonous. Usually.
Days in Azkaban are uneventful. Usually.
Stone fortresses are fireproof. Usually.
Triolets for Rainy Days (T, 197)
More poetry.
Draco gets interrupted while writing poetry about his Auror partner.
The Seven Weasley Horcruxes (G, 899)
Be careful with this one.
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As the normal effectiveness of renovations wanes, questions come up concerning the destiny of getting older properties. Residential conversions, typically seen as an answer for ailing workplace buildings, are restricted, with fewer than 100 properties in Texas assembly the mandatory standards for adaptive reuse, on account of ground plate dimension and different components.
Triolet emphasised the necessity for strategic investments in extremely fascinating areas, emphasizing the significance of understanding evolving tenant wants within the post-pandemic period.
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I notice that my prompt for today bares a slight similarity to yesterday's from the official site but here goes! For something a little different, I would like you to write a sonnet in reply to one of Shakespeare's. And perhaps in a less flattering manner. Have fun with it and see what sticks!
From the Napowrimo site:
And now here’s another prompt drawn from our archives – and, as usual, optional! Today, let’s try writing triolets. A triolet is an eight-line poem. All the lines are in iambic tetramenter (for a total of eight syllables per line), and the first, fourth, and seventh lines are identical, as are the second and final lines. This means that the poem begins and ends with the same couplet. Beyond this, there is a tight rhyme scheme (helped along by the repetition of lines) — ABaAabAB.