NaPoWriMo Day 6:  Universal Guidance

NaPoWriMo Day 6:  Universal Guidance

Here’s our optional prompt for the day. Many of us had to write “acrostic” poems in school. These are poems in which the first letter of each line spells a word as you go down the poem. For example, the first line of an acrostic poem that spells the word “ghost” would...
NaPoWriMo Day 4: Prompt Poetry

NaPoWriMo Day 4: Prompt Poetry

The prompt for Day 4 is to write a poem in the form of a poetry prompt 🙂 Interesting, isn’t it? The poet Mathias Svalina has been writing surrealist prompt-poems for quite a while, posting them to Instagram. You can find examples here, and here, and here....
NaPoWriMo Day 3: A Mystical Experience

NaPoWriMo Day 3: A Mystical Experience

NaPoWriMo Day 3: And now for our (optional) prompt. This one is a bit complex, so I saved it for a Sunday. It’s a Spanish form called a “glosa” – literally a poem that glosses, or explains, or in some way responds to another poem. The idea is to take a quatrain from a...
NaPoWriMo Day 2: A Rendezvous with Self

NaPoWriMo Day 2: A Rendezvous with Self

The prompt for Day 2 is to write a poem based on a word featured in a tweet from Haggard Hawks, an account devoted to obscure and interesting English words. Will you choose a word like “aprosexia,” which means “an inability to concentrate”? Or maybe something like...
A trip down the memory lane

A trip down the memory lane

As I walk down the memory lane I drown in the sea of emotions I rejoice with the flowers of ecstasy As memories of love and care embrace    The wind of nostalgia quivers me As I see the time escape The tears of regret, tasks left undone How relationships evolved and...