The 2017 NaPoWriMo Wrap-up
“Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.”
― Mark Strand,
“Safety isn’t always safe. You can find one on every gun.”
― Andrea Gibson
NaPoWriMo is done for 2017. Congratulations!
You owe it to yourself to check out Brendan McBreen‘s just published collection of poetry from MoonPath Press. Cosmic Egg. Read a poem from it here.
Want a few more prompts for the next few days?
Here’s 6 more you can try.
From Brendan McBreen:
Prompt 31 – Write a concrete poem, a poem physically in the shape of something.
Prompt 32 – Use consonance, pick a consonant and use it in each word of a line, pick another for the next line and so on. Try for eight lines.
Prompt 33 – Write an ode to dentists.
From me.:
Prompt 34– Write an ekphrastic poem based on a work of Art you find on a random Google Image search.
Prompt 35 – write a clerihew (look it up and have at it)
Prompt 36 – Use three words from each of the 6 quotes I’m sharing today to create a 6 line poem.
Here are the poems I’ve written from the 29th and 30th NaPoWriMo prompt
Day 29 NaPoWriMo Prompt suggested picking 4 or more Titles of current Best Sellers.
(I went a little crazy using most of the titles on the New York Times and Publishers Weekly Bestseller Lists)
The Burial Hour
By Christopher J. Jarmick
‘The Fix’ is in!.
‘A Man Called Ove’, told too many
‘Fast and Loose’, ‘Big Little Lies’
collected in ‘The Black Book’
by me, ‘All By Myself, Alone’
because ‘This Fight is Our Fight’
not just ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’
who was ‘Shattered’ hearing of
‘The Killers of the Flower Moon’
In the ‘Lost City of Z’ by
‘Hidden Figures.’
‘The Women in the Castle’
thought they had told
‘The One Perfect Lie’ to
‘A Gentleman in Moscow’
But ‘The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane’
knew the ‘Dangerous Games’
played by ‘The Cutthroat’ and ‘The Whistler’
were part of the ‘Vicious Circle’
and there were ‘Thirteen Reasons Why’
it all led back to
‘A Man Called Ove’.
Day 30 Prompt suggested Choose 4 lines from what you have written in the last 29 days. These lines become lines 1,3,5, and 8. Write new material for the 2nd , 4th , 6th and 7th lines to create your final NaPoWrimo 2017 poem.
Previously
By Christopher J. Jarmick
We pretend we’re better
sometimes by escaping with a pill, a smoke, a movie, a book.
Twice, I have changed my reflection.
adjusted the light, changed my focus remembered that place
where imagination meant understanding.
History teaches with every decision, with every belief, there is more to learn.
Walk through the woods, by the lake and ocean, touch living things with compassion.
My brother and I would make a pile of sand.
Keep Writing!
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. –Walter Scott
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. –Virginia Woolf
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. – Robert Frost
Virginia Woolf
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