napowrimo #4: fresh paint or make up
by Christine Swint
Saturdays in my town people go to the hardware store to stock up on supplies for sprucing up their homes. Spring is a great time to apply a fresh coat of paint on old furniture, walls or maybe even a poem or two! Here’s the idea –- go to the hardware store (or an online paint store) and look up some colors you like. They tend to have evocative names, like White Truffle or Blackberry Harvest.
Maybe the whole idea of a hardware store makes you yawn, or worse, cringe. If so, head over to the make up counter, or browse the Clinique Eyeshadow store online.
The idea is to find a color or two, write the phrase on a card, and then write down the associations you have with the phrase. Do a 5-minute free-write, and then turn your musings into a poem.
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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 wait until Thursday, when we’ll have our weekly “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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- the latest (virtual) book tour stop for ‘a walk through the memory palace’
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James Brush provided our first tour stop at his blog, Coyote Mercury.
You can find all our plans for the tour here.
- planning for napowrimo in april, and you are invited!
February 2, 2010 | 6:12 pmHello, hello dear Read Write Poem community members! We are in the planning stages for NaPoWriMo. (What? Is that a groan I hear, or an excited exclamation?)
We are planning another prompt-every-day for those folks who love to write a daily poem in April (which is, as most of you know, National Poetry Month in the United States — although there is an international following of writing poetry every day in April, too, so it is not just about the States).
Anyway! This is a call for prompts because we want to run your ideas, one every day, in April. So here’s what to do:
- Prompts must be no more than 250 words, and we will take the first 30 that we receive.
- Include “NaPoWriMo Prompt” in the subject line of your email as well as your username (e.g., the name you use when you log in) so we can match you up with your prompt and give you the link love.
- Email your submission (in the body of the email — no attachments please) to prompts (at) readwritepoem (dot) org!
We’ll let you know when we’ve got the 30, but don’t delay because it takes a lot of time to format the posts and we want to be ready come April Fools’ Day. Woohoo!
- new senior contributors at read write poem
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Ren and Dave will fill the roles vacated by Carolee Sherwood and Jill Crammond Wickham, who have moved into the manager role.
Everyone please thank Ren and Dave for their hard work and commitment to Read Write Poem.
- rounding out the virtual book tour of sarah j. sloat’s ‘in the voice of a minor saint’
January 31, 2010 | 1:53 pmOur last stop on the Virtual Book Tour of Sarah J. Sloat’s In the Voice of a Minor Saint is with Ren Powell. Find Ren’s review at More Babel.
Joseph Harker provided our first stop in December, and you can find David Moolten’s review at Edible Detritus. David’s was followed by Dave Jarecki’s. Dave’s review is at his blog. Find Jill Crammond Wickham’s at Jillypoet: Mom Trying to Write.
In case you missed the introduction, we are (virtually) hosting Sarah J. Sloat’s In the Voice of a Minor Saint. For complete tour information, such as how you can get your own copy of the collection or how you can get involved in future tours, read this post.
- make your own book: get off the computer and onto the paper
January 30, 2010 | 4:19 pmBeth Adams has posted her latest project at The Cassandra Pages. “A Handmade Book” may not explicate all the details of bookbinding, but Beth shows readers the “Secret Belgian Binding.” It’s a beautiful as well as inspiring post.
If you would like more detailed instructions, Google “secret Belgian bookbinding” and find sites such as this one. Or look for a local book arts class for hands-on instruction.
As Beth says, ” … it did me good to get away from the computer and feel my hands at work!”
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My 3 a.m. poem (for NaPoWriMo):
scarecrow’s dream / burnt sienna
Painting by Poetry for Day 4
at my facebook notes
or here:
http://dash30dash.ning.com/profiles/blogs/day-4-napowrimo-april-4th-2009
Snow flakes
Used the three in a row prompt
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I’ve used Christine’s prompt.
fresh paint
Thanks for the prompt Christine
http://sewina.blogspot.com/2009/04/napowrimo-4.html
Slap on the lippy!
I picked two paint colors: Poetic Princess & Snow Ballet. I would never have written anything like this without your nifty prompt. Thanks!
Snow Ballet Starring the Poetic Princess
smoothie
http://a-mus-ing.blogspot.com/2009/04/smoothie.html
Wow, thanks Christine! What a great prompt idea! I actually bookmarked the Behr site because I saw so many wonderful phrases! Love it…
I wrote this in ten minutes:
http://therer2doors-thespacebetweenwords.blogspot.com/2009/04/colors.html
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See comment #10. I’m not sure what I am doing that automatically posts to the comments section! Anyway, there are two poems here. http://haystravelogue.com/poetry/2009/04/napowrimo-4
Oooh! Great prompt! I had fun with this… though I didn’t follow the directions precisely.
http://missionimprovisational.blogspot.com/2009/04/it-aint-easy-being-green.html
Beautiful prompt. I love colors, got lost looking at the samples!
http://page247.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/napowrimo-4/
Excellent opportunity to reflect the colours of my life and my late mother’s love</A.
Thank you!
Day 4 and I’m still hanging in there…ENJOY!
http://iwriteforreal.blogspot.com/2009/04/napowrimo-poem-4.html
Keep it up everybody!
my two paint colors: swan white, olivine
This one was a little harder than I thought it would be LOL. Thanks for such a challenge
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http://lori102870.blogspot.com/2009/04/his-biggest-fannapowrimo-poem-4by-me.html#comments
blue makes her smile
This one was so much fun!!
http://alotus-poetry.livejournal.com/68057.html
Love the prompt ~ might well use it for tomorrow! In the meantime here’s todays slice:
Not What I Expected
Goodbye Beard
http://eatsbugs.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/goodbye-beard-40209/
I did a cinquain today (at least I tried). Four days and loving it!
Used paint as the prompt and written a sijo.. not quite like you intended I guess..
A sijo
Here’s one about a barnacle, sort of. I don’t think it matters at all how people use the prompts. The idea is to have fun, right?
The Barnacle Says
Thanks for this prompt. I love it.
ohhh, thaz a good prompt… just happen to be on my way to the hardware store anyhow.. getting paint and flowers and a few other things… sun is finally out!!! filament
http://birdswordpoetry.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/napowrimo-2009-4/
Day 4
I’m having a harder time coming up with a title not the poem…
Tired from travel, so this one is short.
http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/04/hummingbird-haiku/
Again, I didn’t follow today’s prompt, and I took the easy way out and did a haiku today.
http://cassandralee.tumblr.com/post/92960770
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mine’s here
napowrimo 5
day four and i look to see what other people are doing and here’s all of this!
day 4…here is mine….RED and BLACK
On FRESH PAINT:
THE BEAST’S BLUFF
Here’s my NaPoWriMo #4
#6299 – Discreet White
Here’s my color-inspired poem:
http://freckledwriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/red.html
A list poemFeathered gold
My NaPoMo poem #4: Bleed-Through
day 4 – painting prompt
http://seashelllz.livejournal.com/105170.html
#4 and #5 are in this one. My colour was ‘Morning breeze’
http://littlemisscatterbrain.blogspot.com/2009/04/sniffle.html
Spanish/English poem :
lo feo de la noche/ugly night
Warm Stone
Longest poem yet….
Tropical Holiday
Here’s today’s (and scroll down for April 1-3)
http://everythingflowersfromwithin.blogspot.com/
http://poemsotherwise.blogspot.com/2009/04/skin-deep.html
This was a difficult one. I am falling over with sleepiness, so I’m just going to slap up a link:
http://thisyearsblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/nablopomo-2009-day-4/
I worked 29 different paint colours into my poem inspired by Sir Walter Scott’s Lochinvar
# 4 for NaPoWriMo:
Haiku Poems
http://brokeness.blogspot.com/2009/04/napowrimo-4.html
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I really enjoyed gathering paint names and here is the result of my efforts:
Ionic Sky
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I can’t really call myself a poet, but I’m happy that napowrimo has gotten me writing again.
i forgot to post my link yesterday!
tangerine fusion
Just finished a pantoum using this prompt. Thanks!
[...] Just finished an intensely sexy pantoum inspired by this prompt. I’m still one poem behind (from Wednesday) and hope to catch up tonight when I get back from [...]
[...] poem. Just tired and not in the mood to write. I finally got inspiration from Christine’s prompt from yesterday. So glad the fabulous Read Write Poem team is putting together all these prompts to keep us going [...]
I loved loved loved this prompt.
Something Blue is in my name link.
[...] Just finished an intensely sexy pantoum inspired by this prompt. I’m still one poem behind (from Wednesday) and hope to catch up tonight when I get back from [...]
Posted last night. http://starsandmuses.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/delicious-berry/
Days 2, 3, & 4 – should all be in the first post!
catching up as fast as i can.
http://ilikeyouthanks.tumblr.com
light shines ~ http://djkreutzer.com/moments/archives/368
I had a picture to go along with it, but it got messed up – oh well!
http://cannedoriginality.blogspot.com/2009/04/spruced-up.html
[...] Prompts: Poetic Asides ”animal” and Read Write Poem “color swatch.” [...]
http://triatriatria.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/greyhound/
I’m late, i’m late, for a very important date!
http://sintaxandsemantix.blogspot.com/2009/04/photoshop.html
I’m running a little behind, but enjoy!
Chalkboard Circus
Hey Madeline.
Glad to have your poems, but I am deleting them because we “link” our poems here. To your blog. Sorry to be the meanie, but those are our rules. And since we have very few of them, we have to follow what we do have.
Come back when you have a blog, and post a link to your blog where your poems are located.