Playing with Google search bar for today's inspiration.
Today's prompt was a Fourteener - http://www.napowrimo.net - which I started but haven't completed. So, there will be that. Here's today's poem:
Playing with Google search bar for today's inspiration. Today's prompt was a Fourteener - http://www.napowrimo.net - which I started but haven't completed. So, there will be that. Here's today's poem:
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My poem for today is very loosely based on today's poetry resource (*STOP and see below, #1) and the prompt, in so far as I mention "night" in the first line (*STOP and see below #2).... Straight from the official NaPoWriMo 2015 site: #1: In keeping with the theme of fun, our poetry resource for today is, well, less a resource than a diversion. You know how, when you go to search something in Google, the search box will automatically pre-populate with potential searches, based on your first few words? Sometimes, there’s a sort of serendipitous poetry to these automatically completed search terms, which leads us to Google Poetics, a website devoted to capturing these rare specimens and preserving them for posterity. #2: And now, our (as always, optional) prompt, provided to us by NaPoWriMo participant Carla Jones. Today, I challenge you to take your gaze upward, and write a poem about the stars. You may find inspiration in this website that lists constellations, while also providing information on the myths associated with each one, as well as other salient information. Your poem could be informed by those myths or historical details, by the shapes or names of the constellations, or by childhood memories of seeing them. Any form or style will do. Without any further ado, the poem... Last night I had the strangest dream... There was a car and a girl and it went on and on for a bit and then a bit more. I might have laughed if I had remembered how. It's like that time with that tipped cow; Legs a twitchin' Body itching' Stuck. Done like dinner Like the cow. Ow. So.... NaPoWriMo 2015 is off to a late start! It seems I am already behind.... D'oh! But without further ado, here goes... PROMPT for DAY 1: a poem of negation – yes (or maybe, no), I challenge you to write a poem that involves describing something in terms of what it is not, or not like. For example, if you chose a whale as the topic of your poem, you might have lines like “It does not settle down in trees at night, cooing/Nor will it fit in your hand.” Straight from the NaPoWriMo official site! Surely a Surly Cat she's a little Angel she's not Mean at all when she's Extra Angry she swats me with her paw Still worse than bad and badder than worse Before it gets better, you can bet your purse! Sun dogs and Solar halos may be heaven-sent But all still part of a different argument. Over and over for many an eternity; So many cycles about the same shit patty. Refractions down low and some way up high; Reflections of the demon in the mirror lie. Who is wrong? Who is right? Does it matter? Why do we fight?
For a complete list of FAQs, visit www.NaPoWriMo.net, owned by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. She started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. How do I participate in NaPoWriMo? Easy! Just write a poem a day for the month of April. You can post them on the internet. You can hide them in a notebook. You can make up a special book just for yourself out of them. Really, all you need to do is write a poem a day for the month of April. If you choose to post your work on the internet, you can submit your website for inclusion in our online roster of participants. See the “Submit Your Site” link above. FEBRUARY 14, 2011 So…. three years ago there was some snow…. |
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