Tag: #NaPoWriMo2019

• NaPoWriMo: Day 4 -My Husband’s Cousin

  

  And now for today’s (optional) prompt, inspired by Teicher’s poem “Son“. One thing you might notice about this poem is that it is sad, but that it doesn’t generate that feeling through particularly emotional words. The words are very simple. Another thing you might notice is that it’s a sonnet – not in strict iambic…

  Smitha V

  April 4, 2019

  Experiences, Poetry

  #Day4, #death, #elegy, #family, #inspiration, #life, #live, #NaPoWriMo2019, #notincontrol, #poem, #regret, #theonlytruth, #truth, Experiences, Poetry

• NaPoWriMo Day 3 : Legs

  

  Today’s prompt is based in a poem by Larry Levis called “The Two Trees.” It is a poem that seems to meander, full of little digressions, odd bits of information, but fundamentally, it is a poem that takes time. It takes its time getting where it’s going, and the action of the poem itself takes place…

  Smitha V

  April 3, 2019

  Poetry

  #boys, #comparison, #day3, #female, #girls, #growing, #growingup, #journeys, #legs, #life, #lifepoem, #NaPoWriMo2019, #parenting, #poem, #timepoem, #truth, #women, Poetry

• NaPoWriMo Day 2 : Kidnapped

  

  Today’s prompt (optional, as always) is based on this poem by Claire Wahmanholm, which transforms the natural world into an unsettled dream-place. One way it does this is by asking questions – literally. The poem not only contains questions, but ends on a question. Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that…

  Smitha V

  April 2, 2019

  Poetry

  #dreamorreal, #fear, #kidnapped, #life, #lost, #napowrimo, #NaPoWriMo2019, #parenting, #poem, #protectchildren, #staysafe, #truth, Poetry

• NaPoWriMo Day 1: An Instruction Manual to do…umm…’Nothing’

  

  Its April and its NaPoWriMo time – 30 days, 30 poems. Its great to be back and to meet acquaintances made during the previous NaPoWriMo challenge and new ones too. Wishing all those who are taking part in the 30 day challenge, ‘All The Best!’ Today’s craft resource is to write poems that provide the…

  Smitha V

  April 1, 2019

  Poetry

  #artofdoingnothing, #humor, #Instructionmanualpoem, #life, #napowrimo, #NaPoWriMo2019, #parenting, #poems, #stayidle, #teenagelives, #timeflies, Poetry