by Jill Crammond Wickham
Welcome to National Insanity Poetry Month! We’re going to start off easy.
Metaphor.
The definition that I like best is “two disparate things yoked together to create new meaning.” Not sure where I heard that — might have been a professor, might have been a drunken poet … . Either way, it’s an apt description!
Right now, at this very minute, list five things in front of you. In front of you being a relative term: on your desk, on your arm, out your window … . Choose the two most disparate things and yoke them together into a fabulous metaphor. Now, use it in a poem.
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Poet, Can You Spare a Word (or 50)?
This is part two of Welcome to NaPoWriMo Day! For future use this month (don’t worry, you’ll find out why soon enough), please use the above statement in an email to a poetry pal. Ask someone you know well, or ask someone you barely know (check out our participant page, perhaps, or the sign up list in the intro post here) for a list of 50 words. Feel free to ask for interesting words. Ask for wild words. Ask for mean words. All you really need is a list of 50 words and a poet (or two) willing to provide them. Stay tuned for your 50-word assignment(s)!
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A note from “admin”: This month, since we’re all trying to write every day, we’re leaving the comments open with each prompt so you can post links to your poems as you write them. So, go ahead and write your poem, post your poem (with a link to Read Write Poem and a Read Write Poem tag, if you would) and come back to this very spot and share your link with us.
Of course, if you’re a creature of habit, you can always post your links at tomorrow’s “Get Your Poem On” post. Who are we to mess around with what works for you?
And don’t forget to go read the poems of others in this wonderful writing community. We’re all in this NaPoWriMo “mess” (ha ha!) together; let’s support each other in the insanity that is writing (every day)!
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First poem up for the month. http://starsandmuses.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/shivers/
Alrighty, I try to metaphor and see what happens and off to find a soul to help me out.
I think my prompt #1 will be my poem #2, since April 1st is almost finished here. I’m just off to polish today’s effort and post it on my blog, and I will work on metaphors tomorrow. (I may have to make it a 31 day April, to use all the thirty prompts).
And here is my poem #1, inspired by the Wordle (I’ve no idea where I should be linking it, so I’m linking it on both posts)
Escher at the Salmon Ponds
Wrote this one for Wordle. Starting the new year with this
http://poemsotherwise.blogspot.com/2009/03/muddle-it-over.html
I’ve used half of Wordle #13 so I’ve the other half and today’s prompts in hand.
NaPoWriMo #1
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Here is my response to a phone ringing: Mocking Courtship
http://natalief.livejournal.com/1147773.html
a juicy poem to get the month started
http://a-mus-ing.blogspot.com/2009/04/juicy.html
What do you do when the things on your desk are a book of very difficult theology and a bunch of daffodils? Actually it isn’t as bad as I thought.
http://leftturnatjoy.blogspot.com/2009/04/theology-and-daffodils.html
Of chairs and letters…
This month is coming in like a ferocious lioness. Love it!
Thanks, Jill, for suggesting that we begin with the crux of the matter.
Birth of the Sun
You’ll find mine here:
http://an-eotw.blogspot.com/2009/04/my-life.html
Mine is here – Withdrawn
Here is mine.
Slouching Toward Spring
Catherine, glad you’re here. You can link anywhere this month. It is a free for all.
And goodness. 31. I can only hope for 30!
My entry for #1 and my first poem in close to two years or more.
http://adenmuse.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/napowrimo-1-metaphor/
Thanks for hosting this!! My first poem is up:
poem 1. cotton candy melts so fast
(here is the link)
http://exlibrisbb.blogspot.com/2009/04/poem1-cotton-candy-melts-so-fast.html
This is exciting!!
Here’s my first piece, based on read write word #13. Happy reading!
My Thoughts Gather
http://thinkingcities.blogspot.com/2009/04/my-thoughts-gather.html
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Yea! Happy Poetry Month, all!
Napowrimo 1
doctor’s waiting room + vague idea + later seeing this prompt and feeling it all fit in = in the waiting room, after many months
My first ever attempt to write such poem
Here it is:
http://blog.mohdrashidi.com/poetry/2009/04/01/rejuvenate.html
I cheated. My two things were not in front of me. Spring snow and fried onions. I have the snow, but not the onions. As I wrote, the metaphor turned into cold and silence, of which I have an abundance.
The Origin of Minnesota Nice
On the Table
http://alotus-poetry.livejournal.com/67092.html
Posting April 1st poem at Facebook on my Note page….
Someone feel free to give me a clue as to a better way to do this (emeraldchris@yahoo.com)
http://www.facebook.com/editnote.php?draft¬e_id=96518405096&id=763293708
thanks,
Chris J.
Poem #1 is up…check it out!!!
http://iwriteforreal.blogspot.com/2009/04/napowrimo-poem-1.html
Happy National Poetry Month!
Good luck, poets.
Mine’s not really for any of the prompts – but it’s my first poem for April:
http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2009/04/01/clumsy/
it will take a lot of endurance to get me going this year- last year was a struggle but I did it – so wish me luck for this year, didn’t do the prompt but kick started the first day with a little note…
not sure if i’ll follow the prompts, maybe if i’m stuck but regardless,
day 1 ~ http://djkreutzer.com/moments/archives/357
THE JESTER RULES
I’m not feelin’ this but I’m in with this The Origin of Brain Farts aka 30 Days of Bad Poetry
Putting your link in my daily writing prompts at Meme Express.
Here’s today’s post:
http://memeexpress.blogspot.com/2009/04/pranks.html
Blessings,
Linda
Poem #1 using metaphor challenge – bracelet/window
http://seashelllz.livejournal.com/104277.html
I can’t promise to do all 30 days of napowrimo, but at least I’ve got something for prompt #1. It doubles as part of the ongoing series of weekly Torah poems I’ve been writing for the last year & change; it’s called Red.
Here is my first poem for NAPOWRIMO. It has nothing to do with the prompt:
The Box
http://brokeness.blogspot.com/2009/04/box.html
Also, by the way, I could not get this year’s ReadWRITEPoem badge to work on my blog, so I used last years.
Here’s my short attempt.
Thanks!
Here’s my effort. After reading the prompt, I found myself staring at a picture of myself and another of the Little Spokane river. I’m not sure I’ve got a pure metaphor going on, but the idea of linking two things got me started…
http://freckledwriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/muddy.html
Attempting NaPoWriMo for the first time. We’ll see if I make it all the way to the end.
http://napowrimotrial.blogspot.com/2009/04/1-she-had-loved-him-once.html
Didn’t use this prompt but the wordle 13
I veered off on my own, but I actually wrote something!
Am working on the 50 words with someone, too! Thanks!
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Here is a first shot…
http://eatsbugs.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/untitled-40109/
another year… hrz mine oath…
Followed the prompt to the letter and it was great fun.
http://www.kylapasha.com/main/?p=79
http://mylifeinrhymingwords.blogspot.com/2009/04/solitaire.html
Okay after putting it off most of the day I finally got my big ole butt in front of the computer LOL. Click on my name and HOPEFULLY it takes you to the page.
http://therer2doors-thespacebetweenwords.blogspot.com/2009/03/if-you-were-candle.html
I never write poetry; I’m a prose writer. But today, without knowing its was National Poetry Month, I felt compelled to write a poem. And strangely enough, it fits the writing prompt here (which I discovered many hours later). The objects in front of me just happened to be words and phrases.
Here goes:
http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/04/google-inspired-poem/
http://birdswordpoetry.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/circling/
day one here we go!
ps
I hate wordpress! I can’t figure out how to write in single space on it. I type in Word save to HTML and post that way bc at least I don’t loose the indents….but I want single spacing. If anyone has any ideas-I would love to hear them. I think this is why I stopped posting to my blog in the first place….
i mistakenly posted a note on the sign up post…
However!
#1 is done! “Burning Bowl” can be experienced at
http://quicksilvermind.blogspot.com/
Hint: My metaphor was “thread of ashes”…
Looky here! Poems and more poems. Welcome to poets new and versed, prose writers all!
Roberta,
Try pasting when you are in html instead of visual. That was you get to see it and then go back to visual editor. That’s what I have to do sometimes, so that the Word format doesn’t follow me and do strange things.
deb
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holy crap! look at all the poems. wow!
here’s mine for today: i am lost
i’m flying without a password for the month. living dangerously in honor of napowrimo.
My first NaPoWriMo poem doesn’t follow the prompt. Is it still okay to post here?
http://cassandralee.tumblr.com/post/92118264
My first official NaPoWriMo poem, using the prompt:
when holding on becomes too hard
Looking foward to this month, should be fun (if a bit scary). Cheers all!
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http://maritaisabel.blogspot.com/2009/04/napowrimo-1-inside-my-poetry.html
Had some fun with this one even though (I think) it’s a fairly obvious metaphor.
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From Day 1:
http://alsoknownasro.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/a-good-day-for-chocolate
i partially followed this prompt…
no metaphor
but i did take the idea of picking 5 things
in front of me and using 2 words from that to
make this…
http://itsacanadiangeek.blogspot.com/2009/04/april-09-post-poem-1.html
the words i chose were snow and blind.
Great prompt… and used it. You inspired me!
http://scriptophobe.blogspot.com/2009/04/national-poetry-month-poem-day.html
this was my metaphor one from yesterday…sooooooooooo busy forgot to post
http://www.waynepitchko.blogspot.com
oops
computer probs…or just me…i posted short poem yesterday but…looks like it is ou there or not outhere ….anyways the metaphor is posted I think
soory….stilll checkin this thing out
http://www.waynepitchko.blogspot.com