NaPoWriMo 30/30 April 16, 2018

“Tears are words that need to be written.”― Paulo Coelho

NaPoWriMo Writing Prompt for April 16, 2018

 

 

From Sam Hamill:  “Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry to be an eternal conversation in which the ancient poets remain contemporary, a conversation inviting us into other languages and cultures even as poetry transcends language and culture, returning us again and again to primal rhythms and sounds.” ― Sam Hamill

If you haven’t heard, we lost Sam Hamill April 14^th.  He was born of unknown parents in Utah in 1942 or 1943 probably September 5^th.  Quite the early life but ‘poetry and Ken Rexroth saved him’.   Poet, Translator, Copper Canyon Press founder, poets against the war and much much more. Do read about him. Poetry Foundation Biography here   I was fortunate enough to have interviewed him, and hosted a few events that he was involved in.   R.I.P. Sam!    Hayden Carruth wrote: “No one — I mean no one — has done the momentous work of presenting poetry better than Sam Hamill. His editing and publishing, his criticism and translations, his own very strong and beautiful poems have been making a difference in American culture for many years.”

“I believe the poem is a sacramental act, pure devotion to whatever may be revealed only through the music of intuition. The dance of the intellect, the dance of wild imagination, illuminates what cannot otherwise be known.” ― Sam Hamill

NaPoWriMo – 30/30 –  Poem-a-Day prompt for April 16, 2018

Write a poem that evokes or is about Sam Hamill.

Poetry is a very large house with many rooms, closets, attics, basements, bedrooms and kitchens. For me, the practice of poetry is a way of life–as it was for many of the ancient Chinese and Japanese poets I have translated. For me, poetry is for re-reading, a world to be explored and revisited, a world that enriches the quality of one’s life.  — Sam Hamill

Keep Writing!

“I write in my notebook with the intention of stimulating good conversation, hoping that it will also be of use to some fellow traveler. But perhaps my notes are mere drunken chatter, the incoherent babbling of a dreamer. If so, read them as such.” ― Sam Hamill, The Poetry of Zen

Septolet Prompt 14  Write an informal and formal septolet.  I wrote 2 of each.

Formal syllable Septolet 1

Syria Septolet

By Christopher J. Jarmick

 

Bomb

Assad

without long

term strategy.

 

Distraction

needed;

Bomb.

 

Formal syllable Septolet 2

Bookstore Blue Septolet

By Christopher J. Jarmick

 

I

truly love

indie bookstores

so many great books

 

Wish there was

time to

read.

 

Informal Word Septolet 1

 

In under three, Septolet

By Christopher J. Jarmick

 

I really

only need

three words

make that two.

 

Simple, direct

these:

love you

 

Informal Word Septolet 2

Scribbled Septolet

By Christopher J. Jarmick

 

Another NaPoWriMo

Septolet scribbled quickly

to meet daily

deadline

 

can’t use

too many

words.