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It’s Complicated (2025 NaPoWriMo #5)

I’m celebrating National Poetry Month! It’s complicated – click link and see prompt for April 5th. I followed the prompt loosely. napowrimo.net It’s Complicated Breaking my radio along with my heart,Untuned instrumentals angrily blared,While she sang apologetic verses offbeat,Unable to select a genre she mixedrhythms and mistaken intentionsBefore titling our break-up anthem:It’s Complicated. Be well,…

Drawn (2025 NaPoWriMo #4)

I’m celebrating National Poetry Month! Write a poem about living with a piece of art. napowrimo.net Drawn He drew me with everlasting lovingkindness,The only love he knows,Who am I to complain about the lines etched across my face?Or my rotund shape that seems to be forever further sagging?These are but evidence of a full life,Of…

Licensed to Poet (2025 NaPoWriMo #3)

I’m celebrating National Poetry Month! Write a poem that obliquely explains why you are a poet and not some other kind of artist napowrimo.net Licensed to Poet Clumsy feet,Unmusical in beat,I cannot paint a sky,I’m not an acting guy,I’m quintessentially unique,Rhyming my only feat,With punctuation bordering on absurd,I’m always playful with my words;If you didn’t…

Dear Me (2025 NaPoWriMo #2)

I’m celebrating National Poetry Month! Write a poem that directly addresses someone, and that includes a made-up word, an odd/unusual simile, a statement of “fact,” and something that seems out of place in time (like a Sonny & Cher song in a poem about a Greek myth). napowrimo.net Dear Me, I’ve traveled decades,First forwards,Then backwards,Then backwards again;Don’t…

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Hi, Monty Vern here. I’m a work-in-progress personal blogger, author/ illustrator, and fallible human being. This is the new home for Monty’s Blahg. A place for musings both written and drawn. More

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