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So the prompt for today was really complicated, and I was spending time with family, so I didn’t have the energy to write a good poem. So I wrote a little something for Easter since I’m with my family celebrating Easter this weekend. Enjoy!
Jellybean Easter
this year a change from the norm
Peanut M&Ms
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The poetry prompt for today is lists. Use or write a list to inspire your poem. Right now I have someone special in my life, so I wanted to write about what they mean to me and used that as inspiration for my poem. Enjoy!
Reasons I Love You
You are always there
Your long brown hair.
Your beautiful slate blue eyes
How you always listen to my rants and cries.
The little ways you help me out
Including the ones I don’t even know about.
You’re interested in what I have to say
The warm hugs you give at the start of each work day.
This list too short my reasons too few
Just keep on being your wonderful handsome you.
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An interesting poetry challenge for today; it's to find a poem in another language and use the sounds and feel of the words to write your own poem. I've always loved haikus so I looked to haikus written in Japanese as inspiration. In particular I found this one. It caught my interest because it feels like each line is one word and it got me wondering, can you do that in English? Write a proper haiku, that makes sense, where each line is just one word? Turns out you can! Enjoy!
Pulchritudinous
Demisexuality
Indiscernible
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The poetry prompt for today really resonated with me. It is to "write a poem in which laughter comes at what might otherwise seem an inappropriate moment". The past few weeks I have been through a lot, and all the while I've had a good attitude about it all, and I've had friends say that I'm handling things really well. So I used that as inspiration for my poem, thinking back to that particular day and how even though it was something very serious, I can only remember the good parts about it.
Smiles and laughs all 'round
As I grab pieces of my life from boxes.
Fond memories of happy times
Nostalgia coming in waves
As I hastily pack things in boxes and bags.
The guys chat in the kitchen
About mechs, and hobbits, and other wonderous things
While the cloud of years of emotional abuse hang over me.
A storm of emotions as I grab what I can
But all I can see are rainbows
Soon I will leave and I will be free.
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Today's prompt is to write a triolet. The style seems vaguely familiar, I think I wrote one in a previous year. For the topic of the poem, at first my mind was going blank. I couldn't pick what I wanted my poem to be about. While sitting at lunch at my workplace with my notebook open in front of me, I was looking around for ideas when I saw someone walk into one of the testing labs, and got the idea of writing a poem about a solar simulator. The company I work for designs and manufactures them. It was unique that it caught my interest, and well, here is the poem. Enjoy!
The Artificial Sun
The artificial sun shines bright
To test the latest solar cells
The spark goes off, a flash of light
The artificial sun shines bright
I'm in a lab away from sight
The only sound is instrument bells
The artificial sun shines bright
To test the latest solar cells.
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Today's poetry prompt was a fun one! It was to take a short poem and then replace as many words as possible in it with their opposites and create a new poem from there. At first I wasn't sure what poem to use, but with a quick google search I came across Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night. The words and imagery of it was just too perfect for this prompt so I ran with the idea. And here it is! Enjoy!
Do go passionately into that awful day
Youth should grow and breath at opening of night
Whisper, whisper with the birthing of the dark
Though foolish children at their beginning question if the light is wrong
Because their silence has joined no thunder they
Do go passionately into that awful day
Bad children, the first wave by, cheering how dark
Their strong thoughts certainly have rested in a red bay
Whisper, whisper with the birthing of the dark
Calm children who released and spoke to the moon as it sank
And forget, too soon, they welcomed it on its way
Do go passionately into that awful day
Joyful children, far from birth, who see with clarity of sight
Clear eyes could freeze like comets and be sad
Whisper, whisper with the birthing of the dark
And me, my mother, there on the happy depth
Bless, curse, you now with my calm tears, I swear
Do go passionately into that awful day
Whisper, whisper with the birthing of the dark.
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The prompt for today was rather convoluted and interesting. Picking a few words from a list, write questions about those words, come up with a one line answer for those questions, then write a poem with those answers. I admit I was thinking ahead when I picked out the words, coming up with a rough idea of what I wanted my end poem to be. Still, it was an interesting experience and here is the poem.
The king of birds sitting on his perch
Watching over the movement of essence from the mountain to the sea
As he sits he can feel the weight of the world pulling on him, bringing him down
While overhead the rumbling of the sky, bated into anger, begins.
He wants more from life, his thoughts flowing from the heart through the soul, given words as it leaves.
His heart calling out to another, wanting more.
He will gift them the gift of cheese and fascinate them.
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Woo it's the first official day of NaPoWriMo! Let's get this started! The prompt for today was to write about a book cover, the idea that you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover. Well, just before reading the prompt for the day I was at my local library and in one of their front book displays was the recent book of one of my favourite authors, The Dead Romantics, by Ashley Poston. I took a picture of it, and I plan to post it on social media, and it seemed like a fitting cover to use as inspiration for my poem today. So here it is. Enjoy!
Lying here with my book
Trying to read but unable to focus
My thoughts are of him
Are you thinking of me?
Romance is dead
Except in stories
Reading true love conquer all
But knowing I won't find that with her.
The world in books
A place where romance can be found
Not something of reality
Will he...Will she...
Prove me wrong?
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It's another year of NaPoWriMo! I love this event and I love the challenge of writing a poem every day for a month and I've been looking forward to it this year. To get the creative juices going I jumped on the early bird prompt to write a poem: to write a poem based on a "fun fact". I decided to go with something science-y since that's a common theme for a lot of my poetry. Did you know that light is both a particle (photon) and a wave? It is! And we have the science to back it up. But it is strange to think about light that way. So here is a poem dedicated to light.
Light is a photon and a wave
What a strange way to behave
As if the universe gave
Light the ability to waive
All logic in its properties.
Light is a wave and a photon
What an interesting phenomenon
In both states until acted upon
Through measurements and conclusions drawn
We know this fun fact to be true.
Thanks for reading! And stay tuned for a month full of poetry!
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This is a book review for Bed of Rose and Thorns by Lee Hunt.
Bed of Rose and Thorns is unlike any other story I have read. Lee takes a simple idea of a knight who loves his queen and wants to protect her at all costs from her enemies, and turns it on its side and digs into the emotion, the dichotomy, and the magic that often gets glossed over in other stories. Here is a knight that is so in love that he literally rings with the emotion when in service of his beloved queen. And not only is it love, but rage as well. That two emotions and ideas that are seemingly opposites have the same roots.
This story takes the reader into the realm of the mind as the knight explores his desire to protect his queen and his love for her, all while in the physical realm he seeks to solve the mystery of who are her enemies and stopping them before they can get to her.
Full of vibrant imagery and strong emotions that manifest themselves physically in this fantasy world, Lee has created a unique story that will leave you wondering about the events that are transpiring in this world, all while reflecting upon yourself and your own emotions in your own life.
A must read for anyone who loves fantasy and books that make you look at the world a little differently.
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