Another NaPoWriMo entry written with relish. This is a good period for creativity, methinks! 😀 (DAY 26) [Poem currently under submission, therefore unavailable for the time being.]
Words came a little easier today
I switched tactics today and started rather than ended my day by writing a poem. Of course it worked much better, since my brain wasn't fuzzy and clogged for a change. Hope you enjoy! (DAY 25) [Poem currently under submission.]
Battles and Treaties
It took me a while to come up with something today, but I eventually managed to get it together. (DAY 24) War Front We observed our reluctant silence with dignity, like old friends on the war front. Your hopes were bruised, as was my vanity. Stubborn in our anachronism, we pledged our truce over cheap …
More Short Forms and Quests
I realised I hadn't played with the tanka form in a while, so thought I'd give it another try. You can read my previous experiments with the tanka here and here. (DAY 23) Knights Errant On and on and on they went, like faery children, planetary scouts. They were on a sacred quest encrypted in …
Late Entry
I know it's quite late for the daily poem, but my lack of access to an internet connection throughout the day must excuse me. (DAY 22) [Poem currently under submission and therefore unavailable for the moment.]
Haikus…Again.
Don't judge on me, OK? It appears that when I'm tired and on the run, short forms work best for me. (Of course they would!) (DAY 20) Traveller's Haikus Moonlight, refracted off the right wing of the plane; just us, in silence. *** The screech of the rails caught and mimicked by the wind - …
Less Is More?
Not much motivation going on today, so I tried (a version of) the ruba'i, as per yesterday's prompt. Not sure about the end result though, as I have the feeling that I used some rhymes I've already used before... (DAY 19) *** It was an old and strange affair - There were no flowers in …
Does this count as cheating?
I may or may not have cheated a bit with this poem. Thing is, I appear to be functioning after a certain time zone whilst living in another. Therefore, I'm not quite sure whether the poem qualifies as having been written very late on the 17th or extremely early on the 18th... Either way, this …
Sound and Hearing
This time round, I started from today's NaPoWriMo prompt, but decided to narrow it down somewhat. So, instead of writing "a poem in which you very specifically describe something in terms of at least three of the five senses", as the original suggestion went, I focused on sound and hearing specifically. There was no complicated …
Collective Memory
Memory - in all its forms - is another topic that fascinates me, and since today appears to have been a good day for thinking about this, the token poem, unsurprisingly tackles the same theme. I hope you enjoy! (DAY 16) Remembrance I don't remember you, but, writing down these lines, my hand remembers: the …
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