Tag: #NaPoWriMo2019

• NaPoWriMo : Day 20 – What happened over lunch today

  

  And now for our optional prompt! Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that “talks.” What does that mean? Well, take a look at this poem by Diane Seuss. While it isn’t a monologue, it’s largely based in spoken language, interspersed with the speaker/narrator’s own responses and thoughts. Try to write a…

  Smitha V

  April 20, 2019

  Poetry

  #children, #conversationpoem, #Day20, #drama, #family, #GloPoWriMo2019, #home, #justanotherday, #lunch, #mealtimeconversation, #NaPoWriMo2019, #parents, #sisters, Poetry

• NaPoWriMo: Day 19 – Must I? Must I not?

  

  And now for our (optional) prompt! Today, I’d like to challenge you to write an abecedarian poem – a poem in which the word choice follows the words/order of the alphabet. You could write a very strict abecedarian poem, in which there are twenty-six words in alphabetical order, or you could write one in which…

  Smitha V

  April 19, 2019

  Poetry

  #choices, #Day19, #decision making, #GloPoWriMo2019, #happiness, #heartversushead, #inspiration, #life, #NaPoWriMo2019, #people, #poem, #truth, Poetry

• NaPoWriMo: Day 18 – Forgotten

  

  Our optional prompt for the day takes its cue from how poetry can help us to make concrete the wild abstraction of a feeling like grief. “The Lost Pilot” does this, as does this poem by Victoria Chang, called “Obit.” In both poems, loss is made tangible. They take elusive, overwhelming feelings, and place them into the…

  Smitha V

  April 18, 2019

  Poetry

  #awaittheend, #Day18, #death, #depression, #elegy, #forgotten, #GloPoWriMo2019, #life, #loneliness, #NaPoWriMo2019, #poem, #Sorrow, #truth, Poetry

• NaPoWriMo: Day 17 – Till Death Do Us Part

  

  And now for our prompt (optional, as always). As long as we are on uncovering or embodying feelings that may not be commonly presented, I’d like to share this poem by Sharon Olds, who I think of as sort of a Master (or Mistress, I suppose) of discomfiting the reader. This poem is beautiful in its focus…

  Smitha V

  April 17, 2019

  Poetry

  #adifferentpointofview, #Day17, #diary, #friend, #funpoem, #GloPoWriMo2019, #life, #love, #NaPoWriMo2019, #objectpoem, #poem, #truth, #women, My diary, Poetry

• NaPoWriMo Day 16 – Wait! Its in here. Somewhere.

  

  Our video resource for the day is this lovely animation of Lucy English’s poem, “Things I Found in the Hedge.” One wonderful thing I’ve learned in researching our videos for the month is that poetry seems very often to inspire filmmakers, painters, and musicians, just as movies, art, and music inspire poets. Art likes to make more…

  Smitha V

  April 16, 2019

  Experiences

  #day16, #funpoem, #GloPoWriMo2019, #humor, #ladieshandbag, #life, #listpoem, #NaPoWriMo2019, #poem, #truth, #woman’sbag, #women, Experiences, Poetry