Category Archives: Poetry Month

Hello All and welcome to the last day of NaPoWriMo 2023. Today’s prompt, “to write a palinode – a poem in which you retract a view or sentiment expressed in an earlier poem.” I scanned my month of poems, and … Continue reading →

Hello All – Today’s prompt, from the NaPoWriMo site, “Start by reading Alberto Rios’s poem “Perfect for Any Occasion.” Now, write your own two-part poem that focuses on a food or type of meal. At some point in the poem, … Continue reading →

Hello All! Today’s prompt is to write a poem based on an index. And this poem is inspired by the index in my favorite book on children’s literature, Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s Literature as an Adult, by … Continue reading →

Hello All. The prompt today was “begin by reading Bernadette Mayer’s poem “The Lobelias of Fear.” Now write your own poem titled “The ________ of ________,” where the first blank is a very particular kind of plant or animal, and … Continue reading →

Hello All. The prompt today – write a poem that focuses on, or plays with the meaning of the subjects name. I mostly played. Judy Dench Your name Judy, Judy Simple game Judy, Judy Not to blame Judy, Judy For … Continue reading →

Hello All. Today we write a love poem, one that names at least one flower, contains one parenthetical statement, and in which at least some lines break in unusual places. We started by reading the poem by e. e. cummings … Continue reading →

Hello All. Today’s prompt, to write a review of something that does not always get reviewed. Allow me to describe A system preposterous That only those aloft View the calamitous Nature of design that Made so nefarious Can swallow in … Continue reading →

Hello All! Today’s prompt – use sections and numbers to break up the poem, and set it in a specific place that you spent a lot of time once, but do not get to much anymore. 1 Land between two … Continue reading →

Hello All. Today’s prompt was to take a poem by Emily Dickinson, strip it of its dashes, and put it together as prose, then break it apart again into a new poem. I have chosen Hope is the thing with … Continue reading →

Hello All! A series of very long work days caught up with me, and derailed my Poetry Month posting. So here are 3 poems, to get me up to date. April 21 – Delight The prompt for the 21st, choose … Continue reading →