Tag: NaPoWriMo
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Paint Chip Poem: Playing with Poetry #playingwithpoetryNPM 1/30
I wasn’t going to do an April writing challenge. I had many reasons not to commit to more daily writing. Don’t we all? And truly, the daily poem challenge last year was HARD. I write an occasional poemish thing when I’m slicing, but I don’t think of myself as someone who writes poetry. Another good…
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What I Wish Report Cards Looked Like: Slice of Life #sol18 #NaPoWriMo18 #npm2018
What I Wish Report Cards Looked Like: Advanced Internet Rabbit Holes A Latte Art Appreciation A- Introduction to Patience B+ Reading Plans 101 A Principles of Introversion A+ The Anthropology of Cake A+ Cats in Popular Media A Field Experience in Book Hoarding A+ This poem comes from a writing prompt I occasionally give…
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How Do You Know If It’s Done? #NaPoWriMo18 #NPM2018
You can’t pop a poem in the oven set the timer go about your business until–DING–it’s done. You can’t press your finger to your poem its pillow top springs back when it’s ready You can’t take your poem’s temperature measure the thermometer’s rise 190° and it’s not quite ready 212° and it’s too dry You…
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My Corner of the World: Slice of Life and NaPoWriMo #sol16
My Corner of the World The bottom of the ocean is a field Green, then yellow. Gold, then brown. Once this ocean was brown with bison Prairie grass bends with the wind So dry it’s hard to imagine it was once ocean So much space a person can feel small Or exactly person-sized Strangely grounded,…
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What’s In My Gratitude Journal: NaPoWriMo
I’m participating in National Poetry Writing Month, NaPoWriMo, in celebration of National Poetry Month. Today’s poem was inspired by a prompt at Amy Ludwig VanDerwater’s blog, The Poem Farm (plus a little help from William Stafford’s “What’s In My Journal“): I know many people who keep thankful journals. Some call them gratitude journals. These are books for…
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A New Writing Challenge: A Daily Poem
I’ve decided to tackle a new writing challenge in April: NaPoWriMo. April is National Poetry Month, which means it’s also National Poetry Writing Month. I don’t write poems. Ever. Except I wrote several for the March Slice Challenge. I couldn’t quite bring myself to call them poems. They were “kind of sort of poems.” They…