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An Antarctic Zen Garden
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…
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London, Island of Sodor
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…
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Millennium C
Today’s prompt encouraged us to “write a poem about a specific place — a particular house or store or school or office”. I decided to write a Haiku about the office since it’s been just about a month now since we started working from home (although it feels like a…
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Soap Scum
I’m back for another shot at poetry month! Haven’t written much other than mediocre code in the past 4 years, but we’ll give this a try. Today’s prompt was to “write a self-portrait poem in which you make a specific action a metaphor for your life”. I generalized a bit and…
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Made in China
Using my late pass on Day 11. The prompt was to write a poem about an object or a place and end it in a surprising or abstract/philosophical way. Adjacent the curb, A wood plank, machine carved to resemble the cousin of a surfboard Composed of airy yellow,…
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The Medic
I’ve been pretty swamped with school the last few days and I haven’t been on top of writing. I still want to write on each of the prompts, but they may be a bit out of order now as I try to catch up again. The following is Day 7’s…
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Botany
Notes: Not sure if this constitutes as poetry, but I did what I could with what I had! I’m a little late finishing this one up, but the day 5 prompt was to write a poem either using the names of Heirloom plants or inspired by one. The…
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Seasons
Notes: NaPoWriMo Day 4. I’ve been tied up with homework lately so a bit tight on time; I free-versed it for this one, but kept it relatively short. The prompt for this poem was to write about the month which you believe is the cruelest. I wrote about the month…
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A Letter to Gandhi
Notes: This one is formatted a bit oddly – I wanted to give it the structure of a letter, but still write it with stanzas that flow well together. The prompt for today was to write a letter to a celebrity, so I decided to write to Gandhiji, a very…
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Family
Notes: This poem was written to complement the photo above. Family is a pretty widely defined term for me and this particular ‘family portrait’ focuses on the two cousins on my mom’s side and my sister. The poem itself is composed of rhyming couplets with each one of us pictured…
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