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Today’s prompt “asks you to peruse the work of one or more of these twitter bots, and use a line or two, or a phrase or even a word that stands out to you, as the seed for your own poem.” In Twitter fashion…   @carsonbot “Consider incompleteness as a verb.” #calltoaction #moneymoves #ambition oh Read more

Got a bit busy with work today so this one’s short, but don’t fret I’ll definitely write something soon to do this article justice. No harm intended Mr. Pres!   A boxer no doubt Shirt, tie, optional of course Presidential, sure?   Read more

I will remain perched upon this coarse-grained sandstone ledge Peering from across the amaranth pink fountain To the depths of the still cerulean pond neighboring it’s base I am wholly detached from the passage of time Allowing me to observe the universe’s marvels unfold, one of which The spread of life across our beautiful home Read more

Today’s prompt is called “Twenty Little Poetry Projects”, and was originally developed by Jim Simmerman. The challenge is to use/do all of the following in the same poem (below in Notes). I didn’t get them all since I came across a classic Les Misérables quote browsing the web and didn’t know how to follow it. Whatever, Read more

Today’s prompt asked us to “write a poem based on an image from a dream”. I tried to recollect my dreams all day, but came up dry so decided to write one inspired by my uncle’s day 4 poem (he posted before me) that describes marine life in space. This one tells the tale of Read more

Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt encouraged us to “first, make a list of ten words” in whatever way we liked then “for each word, use Rhymezone to identify two to four similar-sounding or rhyming words”. I’m reading The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt right now and decided to select my ten words by closing my eyes, flipping to random Read more