Tag: #Day22
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NaPoWriMo Day 22- School mornings
In honour of today’s being the 22nd day of Na/GloPoWriMo 2022, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that uses repetition. You can repeat a sound, a word, a phrase, an image, or any combination of things. My poem- School mornings One eye squeezed like a lemon the other forced open Stretch for the…
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NaPoWriMo Day 22 : Take me Home
Wrote this poem on the subject “Holidays” for a Competition hosted by Asian Literary Society and won the First Prize. Not the days spent lazing, overlooking the Seine or the vineyards of Chianti, having food and wine Not the tip of Jungfrau, where heaven and earth align or the nights in the Wadi, gazing at…
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NaPoWriMo Day 22 – I’m eating the head
Our (optional) prompt for the day asks you to engage with different languages and cultures through the lens of proverbs and idiomatic phrases. Many different cultures have proverbs or phrases that have largely the same meaning, but are expressed in different ways. For example, in English we say “his bark is worse than his bite,”…
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NaPoWriMo : Day 22 – An ode to baking
And now for our daily (optional) prompt. As our film for the day shows, art and poetry can richly affect one another. Frank O’Hara’s poem, “Why I am Not a Painter,” speaks to this mutual engagement, as do explicitly ekphrastic poems (i.e., poems that are about a specific work of art), like Thom Gunn’s “In…
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NaPoWriMo 2018: Day 22 – Just because you don’t believe in it , Doesn’t mean it can’t happen… Nothing’s Impossible
Our craft resource for the day is a series of reflections by Wesley McNair on “indirect entry” into a poem. McNair writes of inviting mystery and uncertainty into our poems, both with respect to the writing process and the finished work. And now for our daily prompt (optional as always). I’ve found this one rather useful in…