Tag Archives: NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo

In A Still Sleeping Place Inside My Head

The for the fourth day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020 is: “…to write a poem based on an image from a dream”.    … and so I did…. In A Still Sleeping Place Inside My Head by Michael Doyle The feeling comes … Continue reading

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I of the Camera

It’s the first official day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020! So what’s the prompt, right? “… a self-portrait poem in which you make a specific action a metaphor for your life – one that typically isn’t done all that often, or only … Continue reading

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Day 25: Change of Locks

The home stretch of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo is on!  The challenge today is to write about some space that might have some sort of emotional tie to it.  Having spent an evening hearing from my little girls how my ex is being … Continue reading

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Country Folk

This was for Earth Day and I was out and about for some of the day and well a thousand excuses, none of them good, as to why I did not ‘get’ okay… take the opportunity to post this as … Continue reading

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Garden Into Gateway

It is the 19th day of  NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo.  New day, new challenge.  This one is to write a poem of any kind with any perspective pertinent to a ‘creation’ story.  Many who know me would assume that I would ease over … Continue reading

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Wakcup Call

The eighteenth day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo brings a challenge that only Lewis Carroll’s mother would like.   To quote: “to write a poem that incorporates neologisms. What’s that? Well, it’s a made-up word! Your neologisms could be portmanteaus (basically, a word … Continue reading

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Nocturne #31

Today is the seventeenth day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo.  Its topical choice is to write a nocturne.  A poem for the night might be the subject of a penny dreadful or a tale of romance.  For me, this night, it becomes more … Continue reading

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A Letter To My Daughters

Day Sixteen of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo has the challenge of writing a letter as a poem.  What a fascinating concept that is to me.  Many letters along the path of my have incorporated blurbs of poems and tried to express things by … Continue reading

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Self Inflicted Purgatory (Day 15)

Going back over this past weekend’s challenges in writing at least a poem a day, I find that the day 15 challenge for NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo is to write something regarding the middle.  Which middle? Apparently, any middle will do. I picked … Continue reading

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Elegy For Superman

Day Three of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo:  The challenge?  To write an elegy.  I opted for an elegy for Superman based on the multiple issue death of Superman cycle that was written in the 1990s. Elegy For Superman by Michael Romani The story … Continue reading

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