Tag: #NaPoWriMo2023
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NaPoWriMo Day 1, 2023: The Feet
P.C. John Lord Peck. Dress and Care of the Feet. New York: Fowler & Wells, 1871 ‘And here’s our own prompt (optional, as always) for the first day of Na/GloPoWriMo. They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, but they never said you can’t try to write a poem based on a book cover…
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NaPoWriMo Day 2 2023- A series of sweet nothings
I’m catching up with the days I missed. The prompt on Day 2 was ‘And now for today’s (optional) prompt! The Romanian-born poet Paul Celan once wrote a series of surrealist questions and answers. Here are a couple of examples: What is forgetting? An unripe apple stabbed by a spear. What is a tear? A scale awaiting a weight.…
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NaPoWriMo Day 3: Hero
I’m a little late this year as I’ve been travelling and returned home only last evening. I’ve been busy editing and getting my debut novel out into the world that it feels like a long time since I wrote a poem. It had me a little scared of participating in NaPoWriMo this year. However, here…