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In four days, it will be the beginning of April--April first, to be exact, more widely known as April Fool's Day. But it's also the start of NaPoWriMo--National Poetry Writing Month!
Two years ago, I didn't know about NaPoWriMo, and last year, it slipped my mind. But this year, I'm really into writing poetry, and I would actually like to do NaPoWriMo. And so I thought I’d mention it in case other people were planning to do it or just hadn't heard about it--NaPoWriMo is where you try to write one poem each day (or more, if you're super motivated), for every day of April.
There isn't a website for it like there is for NaNoWriMo, but I believe there's a sort of blog/website where prompts are posted daily. (And you're supposed to put your poetry on your blog, but do you have a blog? I don't.) However, I don't have much access to the website and I won't be able to go on it to find prompts every single day, so I thought maybe if there are people who want to do this we could compile some prompts together for us to do—just any random prompts or poem themes or whatever to use, because thirty poems is kind of a lot to just be doing impromptu.
So, if anyone else is doing NaPoWriMo, if you’d like to post your poetry here you can do that, and there’s also the Poetry Thread.
http://www.cricketmagkids.com/chatterbox/puddingsplace/node/315784
I’m excited!
~Leafy
submitted by Leafpool, age No, not a cat
(March 28, 2019 - 9:46 am)
(March 28, 2019 - 9:46 am)
Oh, I think I read that one, too! *checks* Yeah, I did. It was really pretty. I’ve been reading a lot of the poems linked on the NaPoWriMo website even though I’m not really participating, and they’re basically the first non-CB modern poetry I’ve read, too. They’re really inspiring, and that along with the daily prompts has been making me want to write poetry. Unfortunately my camp NaNo project is taking up all my writing time for now, but maybe I’ll be able to write some next month.
I really like your poem, too, Leafy. The imagery is so pretty.
(April 13, 2019 - 10:50 pm)
dance
dance is the light-footed happiness of soaring
through the air, one moment floating, the next
on the ground
dance is the gleeful success of
mastering a sequence, of learning a part
dance is the scream when you win
(you thought you'd lose)
the hug from your friends, the weight
of the trophy the size of your head
dance is all of these things, and yet
dance is also the gulping of water, more, more, more, as you
pant, exhausted, having danced with no breaks
for five. long. minutes.
dance is the blister on your heel, so bad it hurts
to walk, but you have to
keep going, to finish the dance
dance is the shoes that are so tight that you
need a shoehorn to get them on your red, rubbed, toenail-missing feet
dance is joy
and dance is misery
--
I don't know how this is, but I was experimenting with different styles and line breaks and such. I'd welcome feedback.
(April 13, 2019 - 11:05 pm)
An acrostic, today, for the structure.
Winter
When winter comes
Enters through the mysterious rotating door of seasons
All of us will
Remain
Entrenched under the snow
Somehow we will survive
Eating nothing
Empty bodies
Despite the cold we will carry on 'til finally it comes:
Spring
(April 14, 2019 - 8:18 pm)