Napowrimo 2024. Day 17. This is me

Napowrimo 2024. Day 17 Last but not least, here’s our optional prompt for the day. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that is inspired by a piece of music, and that shares its title with that piece of music. My inspiration comes from our Sign Along with us anthem, ‘This is…

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 15. Full Stop.

Napowrimo 2024. Day 15. Just my own flow today. Full Stop. Today’s plans are out the window,All because I can’t.It’s not a case of choice or mind changing,I simply can not. My head is stuffed full of fluff,My body riddled with aches.My get up and go, is out of order,My body feel like it’s been…

Napowrimo 2024. Day 14. Expensive Words

Napowrimo 2024. Day 14. Today’s (optional) prompt asks you to write a poem of at least ten lines in which each line begins with the same word (e.g., “Because,” “Forget,” “Not,” “If”). This technique of beginning multiple lines with the same word or phrase is called anaphora, and has long been used to give poems…

Napowrimo 2024. Day 13. Eyesore

Napowrimo 2024. Day 13.Just went with my own flow today. Eyesore Jackanory,It’s the same old story.Something that once was,Is no more.Demolished,With new ideas and hopes,For the land lost.But instead, it’s left,To rot and decay.To waste away,Into an overgrown,Weed filled,Rubbish dumped,Eyesore. Even the buildings,That remain,Are abandoned.Derelict and unkempt,Smashed windows,Graffiti walls.Run down,Into wreck and ruin,Another eyesore. Yet…

Napowrimo 2024. Day 12. A Little Tall Tale

Napowrimo 2024.. Day 12 And last but not least, our optional prompt. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that plays with the idea of a “tall tale.” American tall tales feature larger-than-life characters like Paul Bunyan (who is literally larger than life), Bulltop Stormalong (also gigantic), and Pecos Bill (apparently normal-sized,…

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 9. A Twisted Love Story

Napowrimo 2024. Day 9 Prompt from day 8.Finally, our (optional) prompt for the day takes its inspiration from Laura Foley’s poem “Year End.” Today, we challenge you to write a poem that centers around an encounter or relationship between two people (or things) that shouldn’t really have ever met – whether due to time, space,…

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 5. Its Only Nature

Napowrimo 2024. Day 5, let’s get to our optional prompt! Today we’d like you to start by taking a look at Alicia Ostriker’s poem, “The Blessing of the Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog.” Now try your hand at writing your own poem about how a pair or trio very different things would perceive…