Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?” ― Charles Bukowski,
If you are just starting to write a poem a day for NaPoWriMo 2020 – welcome. Enjoy the challenge, develop the habit of writing every day.
Prompt 19
Short and Sharp
Write a poem using only single-syllable words to mimic short, sharp, precise actions.
“I’m nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!”
― Emily Dickinson
Prompt 20
Triffids
Develop a menacing plant metaphor or two and use it in the poem you write today.
Poem Starter CV19 – 18
by Christopher J. Jarmick
Ah….manufactured drama, tweets, aspirational deadlines
fighting words, finger pointing, mixed messages
political games, posturing, positioning, messaging
and the clouds roll in with a little rain for the
flowers and trees.
“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”― Leonard Cohen
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Currently Reading: Apeirogon by Colum McCann ; Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson; Dorothy Day by by John Loughery and Blythe Randolph
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!