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Day 20 Napowrimo
My shoutout today is to Only Poems, a new online lit journal featuring a poet of the week, rather than a poem of the day cadence. I...
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Apr 21, 20241 min read
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Day 19 Napowrimo
I'm catching up as the last two days have been spent on a home renovation project. Our master bedroom has had one wall covered in old...
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Apr 21, 20241 min read
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Day 18 Napowrimo
I found inspiration to write today's poem from Victoria Chang's The Trees Witness Everything. I'm a big fan of Chang's poetry and I am...
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Apr 18, 20241 min read
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Day 17 Napowrimo
I decided to write a sijo to save time. I didn't follow today's prompt or any prompt, but took inspiration from a past notebook. As I...
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Apr 18, 20241 min read
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Day 16 Napowrimo
I'm not sharing this across the main NaPo site this evening. It doesn't follow the daily prompt, but was written in response to...
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Apr 16, 20241 min read
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Day 15 - NaPoWrimo
I didn't follow any prompt today, but just sat down and wrote. My writing desk looks out the window to a magnolia tree, but it's dark as...
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Apr 15, 20241 min read
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Day 14 Napowrimo
I followed today's prompt on napowrimo.net, which was to start each line of a poem with the same word or phrase. I chose "start with" to...
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Apr 14, 20241 min read
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Day 13 Napowrimo
I followed today's prompt on napowrimo.net, which was to build a list of words, and then find words that rhyme and build a poem with or...
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Apr 13, 20241 min read
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Day 12 NaPoWriMo
I follwed today's propt and write a tall tale... Nine Lives All nine of its lives hidden In the vallies and thickets Of its shadow dark...
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Apr 13, 20241 min read
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Day 11 Napowrimo
I followed today's prompt from napowrimo.net to write a poem of one line or a poem of many one lines (a collaboration of seemingly...
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Apr 11, 20241 min read
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Day 10 Napowrimo
Thank you to Christopher Luna again for his Tuesday Zoom poetry session. The sonnet I wrote below exists because of his prompt inspired...
mishrabrittany
Apr 10, 20241 min read
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Day 9 napowrimo
I sort of followed today's prompt, which follows Pablo Neruda's lead in being an ode. But my ode is small, and his odes are long and...
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Apr 9, 20241 min read
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Day 8 Napowrimo
I followed today's prompt to write a poem about two people that shouldn't have ever met. I decided to write about myself and my...
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Apr 8, 20242 min read
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Day 7 Napowrimo
I wrote today's poem in response to the Day 7 prompt on napowrimo.net "And last but not least, we’re taking it easy with today’s...
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Apr 7, 20242 min read
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Day 6 Napowrimo
Today I used the napowrimo.net prompt for Day 6: "And now for our (optional) prompt. Today’s we’d like to challenge you to write a poem...
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Apr 6, 20241 min read
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Day 5 - Napwriomo
I used today's day 5 prompt on napowrimo.net. The prompt asks to read Alice Ostriker's poem "The Blessing of the Old Woman, the Tulip,...
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Apr 4, 20241 min read
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Day 4 - Napowrimo
Today's poem I used the @poetrypromptgenerator on Instagram. I used the 4/1 post that referenced the Gwendolyn Brooks poem "To the Young...
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Apr 4, 20241 min read
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Day 3 - Napowrimo - Parable
I decided to use the Day 3 prompt from napowrimo.net and make my own parable, or something as close as I could get to my own parable....
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Apr 3, 20241 min read
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Day 2 NaPoWriMo - To RM in 2040
Thank you to Christopher Luna for his Tuesday Zoom poetry session. His prompts and collages inspire me to write and push through language...
mishrabrittany
Apr 2, 20241 min read
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Day 1 - NaPoWriMo - Could've
Happy April and Happy #NaPoWriMo . It's National Poetry Month and it's time to poem some poems. I didn't follow today's NaPoWriMo.net...
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Apr 1, 20241 min read
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