The half-way marker is in the dust behind you. Congrats to those with persistence and perseverance and welcome to any new-comers who’ve decided to give this NaPoWriMo thing a try!
“Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.” ― Anne Rice
Author Robert Dugoni at BookTree bookstore in Kirkland On Wednesday April 17 at 6:30 pm for talk, Q and A and signing. Facebook Event Page here!
Free Creative Writing workshop (4:30pm), followed by the PoetryIsEverything Third Saturday reading and open mic (6:15pm) at BookTree on Saturday April 20th. Share our Facebook Event Page here! Thanks.
Prompt 17 – Here’s the prompt for the poem you write on April 17th.
Three-way
It’s Day 17, and Seventeen has 3 syllables in it. So
start your poem with a three syllable word
On the next line Line 2 use 3 words with 2 of them three syllables
Line 3: 6 words with at least 3 three syllable words
Line 4: 8 words with at least 4 three syllable words.
Stanza 2 – Line 5: 6 words and 3 three syllable words
Line 6: 3 words and 2 three syllable words
Line 7 1 or 2 two words and 1 3 syllable word.
Prompt for April 18 (write poem to this prompt on April 18th )
“Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life as well. It’s about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy. … Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.”-― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
From Brendan McBreen:
third eye sore
if you had to have one word tattooed on your forehead
which word would you choose?
now include that word in a poem three times
try making it the third word of every third line in a poem 12 lines (or longer).
Happy Poeming!
Prompt for April 19 (write poem to this prompt on April 19th )
“The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.” ― David Nicholls
Mix up some well- known quotes no more than three or four words at a time.
Poem should be 8 lines of longer and consist mainly of the quotes you are borrowing.
You can use some of the quotes I’ve shared on these pages or some that you know and love. (Share the sources of the quotes you used).
Keep Writing!
“It’s okay to write crap. Just don’t try publishing it while it’s still crap.” ― S.M. Blooding
Prompt for April 20 (write poem to this prompt on April 20 )
“Don’t get it right, get it written.” ― Ally Carter
Write 3 or 4 NAANI poems. The NAANI form.
This poetry was introduced by one of the renowned Telugu poets Dr. N.Gopi.
- Naani is one of India ’s most popular Telugu poem forms. Telugu are a particular people in India.. Naani means an expression of one and all.
- It consists of 4 lines.
- The four lines combined are made up of 20 to no more than 25 syllables.
- The poem is not bound to a particular subject but it depends upon human relations and current statements.
Examples of NAANI poems:
Bollimuntha Venkata Ramana Rao
In-between four walls
A loneliness with deep silence
Became paleness
When book accosts.
In-between
Language and slang
Arise the difference
Who are noble?
With pain
With commotion burnt out
Waving flow of intention
Oh! Where’s my pen?
Poetic expression
Economy of words
story canvas
Knows only squandering.
KEEP WRITING!
Prompt for April 21 (write poem to this prompt on April 21 )
“I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged.” —Erica Jong
From Brendan McBreen – negative
write a poem describing a subject by only what the subject is not
“Words are a lens to focus one’s mind.”- Ayn Rand
And here’s a few poems I’ve written for passed prompts.
Prompt 15 half your 14 line (or less) poem should consist of borrowed lines/phrases from a book, poem, or magazine article, The endline should be compromised of up to 15 borrowed words .
Dog in the Park (with lines from Dog by Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
By Christopher J. Jarmick
The dog is playing fetch in the park on a bright sunny day.
He will not be muzzled.
The large man wearing the red MAGA baseball cap
is just another fire hydrant to him.
He ignores the three young men with swastikas
he has his own free world to live in.
The dog has not yet decided to fetch the ball
He is touching, testing and investigating everything.
Man’s best friend decides to drop the ball because he has
a real tale to tell and a real tail to tell it with.
Poets reading on the stage in the park with
something to say about reality and how to hear it.
The politician takes his place now in the park’s gazebo, a question mark holding a megaphone
with its wondrous hollow horn about to spout victorious answers to everything.
Prompt 16 Brendan’s suggested prompt was to write a poem with four adjectives in it
now remove the adjectives and replace them with nouns. I did this and also eliminated and changed several verbs to nouns too (except in the title).
Those Magnificent Fabulous Jaunty Adjectives
By Christopher J. Jarmick
Today’s investigation into nominalization of language
avoidance of emotiveness, sequestration now a noun.
Adjective (and Verbs too) transmorphed into nouns.
Call it the corporatization of language, legalese, advertising jive.
Editors, now insane.
Here to stay. Focus on the build. The reveal of a beauty beneath.
Can I have a modifier.
Please?
Answer: no.
No.
Accentuate with less waste.
Imagine sky
(you know the color).
Concept clear, concise
a distance between you and I.
Things to do.
People (you know),
Time wastes.
Bye. Not good,
just bye.
Keep Writing!
