Tag: #NaPoWriMo 2017
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NaPoWriMo : Day 30: A Mother’s Song
National Poetry Writing Challenge Day 30 (last day of the challenge) is to write a poem about something that happens again and again (kind of like NaPoWriMo). It could be the setting of the sun, or your aunt Georgia telling you the same story every year on Thanksgiving Day or the birds returning without fail or…
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NaPoWriMo: Day 29 – WHEN…
National Poetry Writing Challenge Day 29 to take one of your favorite poems and find a very specific, concrete noun in it. Then take the chosen word and spend five minutes free-writing associations- other nouns, adjectives. Then use your original word and results of your free-writing as building blocks for a new poem. Here’s…
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NaPoWriMo : Day 28 – Who’s the Boss?
National Poetry Writing Challenge Day 28 is to write a poem using Skeltonic Verse. Skeltonic Verse gets it’s name from John Skelton, a fifteenth century English poet who pioneered the use of short stanzas with irregular meter, but two strong stresses per line (otherwise known as “dipodic” or two-footed verse). The lines rhyme but there’s…
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NaPoWriMo : Day 27 – For The Love Of Chocolate
National Poetry Writing Challenge Day 27 is to write a poem that explores the sense of taste. This could be a poem on food, wine or even the oddly metallic sensation of snowflake on your tongue. Being a total foodie, this topic shouldn’t be difficult but it is. Well, I’m finding it difficult to choose. From…
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NaPoWriMo: Day 26 – PAPER…What’s That?
National Poetry Writing Challenge Day 26 to write a poem based on what future archaeologists, whether human or from alien civilization would make of us. This question should be answered in poetic form, exploring a particular object or place from the point of view of some far-off future scientist. The object could be anything from a…