Napowrimo 2024. Day 26. Blue Bells

Napowrimo 2024. Day 26. Not feeling today’s prompt. So my own flow again. Blue Bells Blue bells are swaying In a gentle soft spring wind A beautiful view By Katie Haigh ©️K.Haigh 26/04/24

Napowrimo 2024. Day 19. Hunted

Napowrimo 2024. Day 19. Finally, here’s our prompt – optional, as always! This one comes to us from Moist Poetry Journal, which posted this prompt by K-Ming Chang a while back:What are you haunted by, or what haunts you? Write a poem responding to this question. Then change the word haunt to hunt. Trigger Warning. …

Napowrimo 2024. Day 16. Petals On Grey

Napowrimo 2024. Day 16. Finally, here’s today’s (optional) prompt, taken from our 2016 archives. Today, we challenge you to write a poem in which you closely describe an object or place, and then end with a much more abstract line that doesn’t seemingly have anything to do with that object or place, but which, of…

Napowrimo 2024. Day 10. A Pane

Napowrimo 2024. Day 11.Finally, our optional prompt for the day honors the “ones” in the number 11. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write either a monostich, which is a one-line poem, or a poem made up of one-liner style jokes/sentiments. Here’s my monostich. A Pane A window is a prison to escape from…

Napowrimo 2024. Day 8. A Spider in the Bath

Napowrimo 2024. Day 8. Tired day today. So a little haiku but may do today’s Napowrimo site prompt tomorrow because I have an idea I’d like to pursue. A Spider in the Bath Climbing porcelainPlease don’t wash me away nowTrying to escape By Katie Haigh©️K.Haigh 8th April 2024

Napowrimo 2024. Day 7. Horrorwood. Heywoods 1st Horror Con

Napowrimo 2024. Day 7. We’re taking it easy with today’s (optional) prompt. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem titled “Wish You Were Here” that takes its inspiration from the idea of a postcard. Consistent with the abbreviated format of a postcard, your poem should be short. It suggested it be about…

Cherry Blossoms

Cherry blossoms bloom Pink pretty petals scatteredGone away, too soon By Katie Haigh ©️K.Haigh

Learn To Ride The Waves

Life is so fragile,Ready to break apart.As unexpected shock waves hit,Shattering mind and heart. We are each trying our best,To live and to survive.To be who we are meant to be,Despite the scars inside. Society tells us to conform.That there’s a tick list to be completed.Without which we won’t be successful,And live a life depleted….

Napowrimo 2023. Day 30. National Poetry Writing Month

Napowrimo 2023. Day 30. For thirty days and thirty nights, We write, write, write.Sometimes, we use the prompts, Trying to get them right. Our words can be freeflow or rhymed, A sonnet or haiku.As long as they form together,Any style will do. Some choose to follow a theme.Others do different topics every day. As long…

Napowrimo 2023. Day 29. Night

Napowrimo 2023. Day 29. A little haiku for today. Stars sparkling night Peppered across velvet black Night fall has arrived By Katie Haigh ©️K.Haigh