April is here again and that means its National Poetry Writing Month and for my second year I’ll be joining the 30 poems in 30 days challenge hosted by napowrimo.net. For this challenge, a poetry prompt will be provided daily during the month of April and if I can keep on track I’ll achieve the 30 poems in 30 days goal. So enough chatter…let’s go! It’s time for NaPoWriMo!
Choose an abstract noun (from list) and write a poem with very short lines and at least one invented word.
April is here again and that means its National Poetry Writing Month and for my second year I’ll be joining the 30 poems in 30 days challenge hosted by napowrimo.net. For this challenge, a poetry prompt will be provided daily during the month of April and if I can keep on track I’ll achieve the 30 poems in 30 days goal. So enough chatter…let’s go! It’s time for NaPoWriMo!
What would future archaeologists make of us today? Answer this question in poetic form.
Digging in dirt to unearth mysteries Deciphering ancient scripts Interpreting cave scratched triptychs Studying remains in old crypts All to understand what they’d
April is here again and that means its National Poetry Writing Month and for my second year I’ll be joining the 30 poems in 30 days challenge hosted by napowrimo.net. For this challenge, a poetry prompt will be provided daily during the month of April and if I can keep on track I’ll achieve the 30 poems in 30 days goal. So enough chatter…let’s go! It’s time for NaPoWriMo!
Cast your mind back to your own childhood and write a poem about something that scared you — or used to scare you — and which still haunts you (if only a little bit) today.
There is something in the puddle; Beneath the surface; Beneath the reflection of you and me, there is something down there we cannot see! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(something in the puddle)
I’ve always been a little afraid of the unseeable beneath water’s surface.
April is here again and that means its National Poetry Writing Month and for my second year I’ll be joining the 30 poems in 30 days challenge hosted by napowrimo.net. For this challenge, a poetry prompt will be provided daily during the month of April and if I can keep on track I’ll achieve the 30 poems in 30 days goal. So enough chatter…let’s go! It’s time for NaPoWriMo!
By coincidence I have a poem in my drafts folder called “XXX (an abecedarian poem)” – and that’s all there is. I guess I felt that such an alphabetical project was beyond me at the time. Well, now IS the time.
An AiBaChi-Darian
Ai (爱）is for love and my daughter’s first name; Ba (爸） is for father which I love to be called; Chi (吃）is to eat anything at all; Di (弟）is for younger brother which I am; E (饿）is for hunger and a good time to chi(吃); Fan (饭）is a meal, prepared just in time; Ge (哥）is an older brother of which I have one; Ha (哈）is part of a laugh; I is spelled “wo” (我）and that’s me; Jia (家) is house and home and my favorite place to be; Kai (开) is to open — a door to one’s heart; Lai (来）means to come – come be with me; Men (门）is the door I’ve opened for you; Ni （你）is for you as in “wo ai ni” (我爱你); Oh (哦) is an expression of surprise just like 😯； Pa （怕）is fear — no need for that; Qi (七) is seven — coming after liu (六) and before ba (八); Re (热) is hot as in Shanghai’s summer weather; Shang（上）means above as in Shanghai (上海）“above the sea”; Tian (天) is a day and also the sky; U never shows up in the beginning without a Y first; V is also a humble sound, never alone to be found; Wo (我）is for I， which we covered once before; Xiu (秀）is the “beauty” in my wife’s name; Yi （一）is one and I love its simplicity; Zhong (中) is for middle or China Zhongguo (中国).
No we’ve gone from A to Z, all in Chinese. Perhaps you’ve learned some new vocabulary by coming along with me.
I was intrigued about the idea of how this form would work in a language other than English and decided to play with that a little bit. Hope you found it interesting.
April is here again and that means its National Poetry Writing Month and for my second year I’ll be joining the 30 poems in 30 days challenge hosted by napowrimo.net. For this challenge, a poetry prompt will be provided daily during the month of April and if I can keep on track I’ll achieve the 30 poems in 30 days goal. So enough chatter…let’s go! It’s time for NaPoWriMo!
Write a poem that contains the name of a specific variety of edible plant — preferably one that grows in your area. Make a specific comparison between some aspect of the plant’s lifespan and your own (or someone close to you).
In the interest of educating myself I went into our garden and took the below photograph and then did research to identify what I was looking at (i.e., I asked my wife and together we checked with the translator to get the English name).
Our Garden’s 枇杷 (Pi Pa) Tree (i.e., “loquat”)
Dear Pi Pa
Dear Pi Pa, My how you have grown since baba planted you years ago in the back corner of our garden; where the sun and shade seem to partner perfectly to provide the right amount of light to bare fruit. Baba isn’t around this year to delight in your abundance. Will we taste the bittersweetness in you?
In celebration of National Poetry Month @murisopsis from A Different Perspective is once again hosting a poetic scavenger hunt. This year’s theme is “nonce” form poetry. What is nonce form poetry? Well, it’s basically a form that was created by a poet for their own use. What’s interesting about a nonce form is that if it is adopted by other poets and used more often it will no longer be considered a nonce form, but rather become recognized as a “valid” poetical form.
The scavenger hunt features thirteen nonce form challenges all to be completed within the month of April. I highly encourage you to check out the prompts and participate here.
Ok, now onto the thirteenth (and final) challenge…The Zig-Zag Sonnet
The Zig-Zag Sonnet
Three quatrains (4 lines) followed by a coda (2 lines) for a total of 14 lines. There are 10 syllables per line. The first word of L1 rhymes with the last word of L2 and the first word of L3 rhymes with the last word of L4 and keeps repeating for all 14 lines.
Once again we have come to a sweet end This time we have learned the art of the Nonce With a Mouse, a Tail, and a fun Whimsey And the Trioku of haikus as the fifth
We wrote DoReMiDo’s full of singsong And Inside Outs, not to forget the Dizzy Colored brightly with our Interspersed words And American Paragraphs were heard
We also read the words of each other And borrowed the Silver ones all for free Repetition occurred repeatedly But never were we in competition
Nonce forms are fun, like Zig-Zags and He- Lipads, they deserve a try at least once.
Well there you have it! Another fantastic challenge in the books! A big thanks again to @murisopsis for creating and hosting this wonderful celebration of poetry. I’m looking forward to continuing to read everyones contributions. Happy poetry month!
April is here again and that means its National Poetry Writing Month and for my second year I’ll be joining the 30 poems in 30 days challenge hosted by napowrimo.net. For this challenge, a poetry prompt will be provided daily during the month of April and if I can keep on track I’ll achieve the 30 poems in 30 days goal. So enough chatter…let’s go! It’s time for NaPoWriMo!
Write a poem that involves describing something in terms of what it is not, or not like.
Uncool (but quite cool!) Not heavier than air (unless there’s a big tear) Never get sad or even elated (although sometimes deflated) Rarely fast or super speedy (except when it’s very windy) Take a ride if your not wary (but I find it quite scary) It won’t take you too far (I’ll wait at the bar) | | | | | | | Let’s | | watch | | from | |_there_|
Look at that! A concrete poem all about what it isn’t! I’m feeling awfully clever about myself in this moment (especially since “concrete” could be considered an opposite of a hot air balloon)! Just for fun (and because WP formatting is so difficult to work with to get just right) I also created the illustrated version below.
In celebration of National Poetry Month @murisopsis from A Different Perspective is once again hosting a poetic scavenger hunt. This year’s theme is “nonce” form poetry. What is nonce form poetry? Well, it’s basically a form that was created by a poet for their own use. What’s interesting about a nonce form is that if it is adopted by other poets and used more often it will no longer be considered a nonce form, but rather become recognized as a “valid” poetical form.
The scavenger hunt features thirteen nonce form challenges all to be completed within the month of April. I highly encourage you to check out the prompts and participate here.
Ok, now onto the twelfth challenge…The Helipad
The Helipad
A poem of 9 lines. All lines begin and end with the letter H which is capitalized and bonded. All words in line 5 are also capitalized and bolded. All lines should be of equal physical length (including words and spaces) to create the shape of a helipad.
I never realized how many words end with H! I cheated a little bit on the spacing to make the line lengths work, but it was worth it to make the visual just right.
April is here again and that means its National Poetry Writing Month and for my second year I’ll be joining the 30 poems in 30 days challenge hosted by napowrimo.net. For this challenge, a poetry prompt will be provided daily during the month of April and if I can keep on track I’ll achieve the 30 poems in 30 days goal. So enough chatter…let’s go! It’s time for NaPoWriMo!
Write a poem about a person – real or imagined – who has been held up as and example of how to live life, but who you have always had doubts. Exaggerate the supposedly admirable qualities in a way that exposes your doubts.
In celebration of National Poetry Month @murisopsis from A Different Perspective is once again hosting a poetic scavenger hunt. This year’s theme is “nonce” form poetry. What is nonce form poetry? Well, it’s basically a form that was created by a poet for their own use. What’s interesting about a nonce form is that if it is adopted by other poets and used more often it will no longer be considered a nonce form, but rather become recognized as a “valid” poetical form.
The scavenger hunt features thirteen nonce form challenges all to be completed within the month of April. I highly encourage you to check out the prompts and participate here.
Ok, now onto the eleventh challenge…Silver Lining
Silver Lining
A modified golden shovel where only the meaningful words are included (skipping words like a/an/and/the/or etc. that are not essential to the meaning of the line).
How exciting for my own nonce form to be featured here. Much thanks for giving this form more visibility. Now I’m off to find a WP poet’s poem to work with. The key is to pick one with particularly interesting choice of words.
I’ve decided to chose the work of another poet participating in this challenge and this poem that features some intriguing word choice: Monuments by saintvi. I hope I can do it justice.
Lady of Stone from Monuments by saintvi
Lily of white, Lady of stone, En-shrines Her lovers, once erected, To remember the past And tend To her till they crumble; Be it fast or slow, Through the years of progress, And years Of decline, they tell the truth; Once concealed Behind curlicues; Now forever standing tall in glory; Functionally carved; Preserved in stone; Monuments To vigor, never to disintegrate; Never to fade in their aged years; Never to leave; They now stand side-by-side; a dozen and a few; Only to her they tend; Her passions cultivated, Insatiable and storied; Her lovers of the past Greet the new ones now — Soon to also be overgrown By kudzu Vines Concealing the truth.
I loved working with this poem (Thanks saintvi for a wonderful word pallet to play with).
Monty’s Blahg 