Tag: #day16
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NaPoWriMo 2023 : Day 16 – It’s not what you think it is
Today’s resource is Poetry Northwest’s online collection of essays exploring different poets, craft elements, and styles of poetry. And now, without further ado, our optional daily prompt, once again pulled from our archives. Today’s prompt is a poem of negation – yes (or maybe, no), I challenge you to write a poem that involves describing something in terms…
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NaPoWriMo Day 16: Heavenly grace
This is my second take on the NaPoWriMo prompt (to write a curtal sonnet) for today. I used the rhyme scheme ABCABC DBDCC. After writing NaPoWriMo Day 16- Save the sunflowers on the current situation in Ukraine, I needed to write something lighter. How delicate must be the hand that created those dainty things?Fluttering eyelids in…
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NaPoWriMO Day 16 – My Sister’s Dog
“Today’s prompt is to relax with the rather silly form called Skeltonic, or tumbling, verse. In this form, there’s no specific number of syllables per line, but each line should be short, and should aim to have two or three stressed syllables. And the lines should rhyme. You just rhyme the same sound until you…
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NaPoWriMo Day 16 – You’re the corn!
“Today we challenge you to write a poem of over-the-top compliments. Pick a person, place, or thing you love, and praise it in the most effusive way you can. Go for broke with metaphors, similes, and more. Need a little inspiration? Perhaps you’ll find it in the lyrics of Cole Porter’s “You’re The Top.” (Scroll…