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NaPoWriMo day 8 – April 8, 2021

Hello All. Today’s prompt is to take inspiration from Spoon River Anthologies, and create a poem that speaks from the grave. After rereading the entries by Edgar Lee Master’s, I am left with this: Spoon River Haiku Edgar Lee Masters … Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo Day 7 – April 7, 2021

Hello All. Today’s prompt had the delicious, syllable counting poetic form the Fib. This lovely little construction is built upon a syllable count that is based off the Fibonacci sequence of 1/1/2/3/5/8. The Fibonacci numbers, where each number is the … Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo Day 6 – April 6, 2021

Hello All. Today’s prompt comes from Holly Lyn Walrath: Go to a book you love. Find a short line that strikes you. Make that line the title of your poem. Write a poem inspired by the line. Then, after you’ve … Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo Day 5 – April 5, 2021

Hello All. Today we are using a poem as a guide to write a different poem, starting line for line with the same letters, letting the easy outline guide our words and thoughts. Though I naturally lean towards Ogden Nash … Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo Day 4

Hello All, and Happy Easter. I hope everyone had a lovely weekend. The prompt for today was to use a photo from the twitter channel Liminal Spaces. I was drawn to this photo, though its not as cheery as I … Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo Day 2

Hello All. The prompt for today was to use Robert Frost’s wonderful poem The Road Not Taken as inspiration. It is a poem I love, so it was easy to run with this one. I hope you enjoy it. How … Continue reading

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Welcome to Poetry Month 2021

Hello All. The crazy times have lasted a whole year now, and Poetry Month is once again upon us. Thank you for joining me on this journey. Because we have all had a heck of a year, I am going … Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo day 30! – April 30, 2020

Greetings all!  We made it!  It’s day 30 and the final day of Poetry Month.  Today’s prompt was to write a poem about something that returns.  Being that I am a thing that returns, this one was an easy finale. … Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo day 29 – April 29, 2020

Hello all.  Today’s prompt was to write about a pet.  So with only one more day to go, today’s poem is – Dash Cat They had a cat that liked to lay flat. Some say it’s that he was a … Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo day 28 – April 28, 2020

Hello All.  Today’s prompt was to write about a bedroom from our past.  So here it is: Far from Needham Far from Needham A painting by Andrew Wyeth The print hung in my room A print I chose, at the … Continue reading

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