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…
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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 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 10. Money, Money, Money
Napowrimo 2024. Day 10.Our optional prompt! Ezra Pound famously said that “poetry is news that stays news.” While we don’t know about that, the news can have a certain poetry to it. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem based on one of the curious headlines, cartoons, and other journalistic tidbits featured…
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 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…
Katie’s Words in Dark Corners 