Tag: #Day21

• NaPoWriMo 2023: Day 21- Courage

  

  Our daily resource is the BBC’s archive of poetry-related writing, where you’ll find essays and articles aplenty, exploring different poets, poems, and poetic forms. Last but not least, here’s today’s (optional) prompt. Begin by reading Sarah Gambito’s poem “Grace.” Now, choose an abstract noun from the list below, and then use that as the title for…

  Smitha V

  April 21, 2023

  Poetry

  #brave, #candles, #courage, #Day21, #fear, #GloPoWriMo2023, #gut, #NaPoWriMo2023, #phoenix, #strength

• NaPoWriMo Day 21 – I remember

  

  Today’s prompt is one I got from the poet Betsy Sholl. This prompt asks you to write a poem in which you first recall someone you used to know closely but are no longer in touch with, then a job you used to have but no longer do, and then a piece of art that you…

  Smitha V

  April 21, 2022

  Poetry

  #Art, #Day21, #friendship, #GloPoWriMo2022, #life, #memories, #NaPoWriMo2022, #nostalgia, #poem, #stories, #truth

• NaPoWriMo Day 21: Today, I’ll tell myself

  And now for our (optional) prompt. Have you ever heard or read the nursery rhyme, “There was a man of double deed?” It’s quite creepy! A lot of its effectiveness can be traced back to how, after the first couplet, the lines all begin with the same two phrases (either “When the . . .”…

  Smitha V

  April 21, 2021

  Poetry

  #Day21, #GloPoWriMo2021, #itellmyself, #NaPoWriMo2021, #poet, #repetitionpoem, #time, #timeflies, #today

• NaPoWriMo: Day 21 – Cancer

  

  And now for our (optional) prompt, which takes its inspiration from another surrealist work, Federico Garcia Lorca’s poem “City that Does Not Sleep.” Lorca took much of his inspiration from Spanish folklore, but also wrote a group of harrowing poems based on time he spent in New York. (Lorca was nota fan of the Big Apple).…

  Smitha V

  April 21, 2019

  Experiences

  #cancer, #Day21, #fightingcancer, #GloPoWriMo2019, #inspiration, #life, #napowrimo, #NaPoWriMo2019, #poem, #solidarity, #surrealism, #truth, Experiences, Poetry