I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.”― Anaïs Nin
This is it! NaPoWriMo 2020 is almost yesterday. Do keep the habit of writing every day. Do read each and every day. In a few days you may discover some more posts on this blog. There is a Writing Prompts page available on your right. Hope you’ve had fun and challenged yourself. Keep writing.
Promp 30
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Lie down and look up at the sky… are there clouds… stars…. Write about what you see, what you imagine, what you feel, the shape of things that are or could be. . .
BONUS PROMPT – 31
Make a found poem from some of the lines you wrote in your NaPoWriMo poems. Use at least 8 different poems and write a poem at least 10 lines long. Yes you can combine half lines too.
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poem Starter CV19 – 29
By Christopher J. Jarmick
What can we take for granted again
and when can we take it for granted.
Is there a cost for too quickly
taking things for granted again.
Will normal be new again?
Whose new normal will it be?
“Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.” ― Basho
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Currently Reading: Apeirogon by Colum McCann ; Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson; Lilian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney; Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
Recently read and recommended: Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice Of The American Century by John Loughery, Blythe Randolph ; Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson; A Pilgrimage to Eternity by Timothy Egan; Poems, 1960-1967 by Denise Levertov; Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate; A Cold Trail by Robert Dugoni ( all 7 of his Tracy Crosswhite mystery thrillers set in Seattle area, are good and it’s best to start with #1 My Sister’s Grave); Fade Out: The Calamitous Final Days of MGM by Peter Bart ; The Deaf Republic (2019) by Ilya Kaminsky
The root of the word Poetry is from the Greek ποιέω (poieō), “‘I
make’”). , poiesis, meaning a “making” or ‘creation’
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Poetry is Everything
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KEEP WRITING!