Tag: NaPoWriMo

So, I made 29 out of 30 days for the month, which is pretty damn good, I'd say. I could go back and bang something out for the day I missed, but it's just not worth it to me. Today's prompt was to write a letting go poem, and I thought about one of the … Continue reading Day 30

I don't want to say I'm mailing it in here at the end of NaPoWriMo, because I'm trying, but the prompts just aren't sparking much in me. Plus, as this poem illustrates a little, it's the end of the term, which means I'm burnt from the work and facing a pretty significant workload between final … Continue reading Day 29

No poem yesterday--just couldn't get into the prompt. Maybe I'll find something to go with it today, but I can't say I'm all that worried about it. Today's options were to write a hopeless or a hopeful poem. This one isn't really hopeless, but it does look at a discouraging situation that anyone who's ever … Continue reading Day 27

Prompt for today was to write a poem inspired by a song. This is even harder to do well, in my opinion, than an ekphrastic poem, just because music is so ubiquitous and so often repurposed that to do it in a poem seems cliché from the start. And it's also very easy to come … Continue reading Day 25

Today's prompt was to write an exhaustion poem, and given the time of the semester, and the length of my Thursdays, it would have been pretty easy to go with physical exhaustion as a topic. But I also felt like that would come off as self-absorbed whining, especially given that my current job is far … Continue reading Day 23

Just jammed this out in the break between classes. It's an earth poem, and that's really all I think I need to tell you about it. It's pretty straightforward. I knew that learning the Greek alphabet while in the fraternity would pay off one day. Earth is not alpha and omega; more like iota and … Continue reading Day 22

The prompt for today is to write a poem with the phrase "According to" in the title. One of my favorite terms is "according to studies" because it has the air of authority while being so vague as to have no meaning at all--perhaps it even offers a negative measure of meaning because of that … Continue reading Day 21

Today's poem is cynical, but the prompt asks us to look back, and while I write a lot about my past, I try not to do so with any sense of regret or nostalgia. I hate nostalgia--there's no greater lie we tell ourselves as humans, I think, than the one in which we imagine a … Continue reading Day 20

Today's prompt asked for a name in the title, and I tossed this one around for a while before deciding. I wrote one to Amy last night, and I've written a lot to my daughter and parents and so on. I considered writing about my best friend in high school, the one who I looked … Continue reading Day 19

I've been preoccupied all day by other peoples' poetry--and I have more of it to deal with--which meant getting original today has been difficult. I'm not really satisfied with today's poem, mostly because I was never able to figure out what kind of poem this wanted to be--a love poem, an ironic poem about love, … Continue reading Day 18