napowrimo #8: wednesday is list day
by Jill Crammond Wickham
List all of your old flames. Try to go back as far as your first kiss in the second grade coat closet. Sit with your list. Depending on your mood today, choose the flame with the most sparks, or pin the list on the wall and throw a dart. Whatever your method or mood, write a poem about an old flame.
If all else flames fails, write a list poem giving your old flames new names.
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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 link tomorrow on “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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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:
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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.
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Great prompt, Jill! I did a freewrite and a short poem, but I think I might like the freewrite better than the poem right now.
http://thisyearsblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/nablopomo-2009-day-8/
And yesterday’s — please forgive for posting it here as well, but I am falling asleep and must retire. Also, it’s about giant guinea pigs. Yes, really.
http://thisyearsblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/nablopomo-2009-day-7/
Night.
My NaPoWriMo #7….no prompt
Out of Context:
http://brokeness.blogspot.com/2009/04/napowrimo-7.html
I’ve already started on a second poem, though I need to put it down and come back to it later. Day 8 looks like it could be a good day!
http://paperdreams-jgc.blogspot.com/2009/04/its-day-8-and-im-up-in-flames.html
only third! i may have to write something else on today’d prompt tho…
Here’s my shot at the theme Old Flames (flames, flings, etc.) Oh the memories! Like that movie title: the good, the bad and the goddamn ugly…
http://sintaxandsemantix.blogspot.com/2009/04/age-of-consent.html
http://poemsotherwise.blogspot.com/2009/04/speaking-of-past.html
This one’s going to be tricky – I have no old flames. Only ever one, and I married him
Here is my poem:
#8 fibonacci flames
Here is a little ditty about Other People’s Husbands. I think you could say I actually followed the prompt today…
[...] I was never really into dating so I don’t have a vast store of old flames to list. Today’s prompt over at Read Write Poem is to list them and write a poem. I’ve [...]
I managed to light a fire, beware the flames.
http://itsacanadiangeek.blogspot.com/2009/04/april-09-post-poem-7.html
laundry list of memory…
not sure how long i will keep this posted.
not sure how happy it makes me.
maybe its just the rain
that makes me feel this way.
Loved the past loves theme . . . here’s my offering!
http://bsquared86.blogspot.com/2009/04/poetically-correct-napowrimo-edition.html
A new “flame”, really:
Levi—to cuss . . .
in the list of my month of poems.
Little sparks from a long time ago: Poker
A Poem about Burning Desire
Conflagrare
Did a few things today regarding NaPoWriMo prompts and poems. Wrote a new one, took an old one and scrambled it on a site, took the new one and scrambled it too.
You’ll find it on my Facebook Notes
and on the blog here:
http://dash30dash.ning.com/profiles/blogs/road-well-travelled-napowrimo
keep the momentum
write on!
oh, my…first crush for #8.
http://therer2doors-thespacebetweenwords.blogspot.com/2009/04/first-crush.html
“you are a wicked, wicked girl, jill,” said the girl surrounded by flames, utterly without a poem.
Oh, I am caught up! I Wrote three today and now I feel much better.
check ‘em out: poems
I’m finally on task today!
Eight False Starts
Ooh, I’m sensing the “naming game” here. Yesterday was nicknames, today is flames, well, I’m just game!
So far so good on keeping up with NaPo! Hope everyone else is too!! Hurrah!
Loving the prompts. When the month is over, I’m actually excited about revising some of these.
Here’s mine: Some Collect Shoes
We’ll call this a list of do’s & don’t’s:
http://antarcticamag.wordpress.com/
I really had fun with the prompt! Here it is #8:
http://iwriteforreal.blogspot.com/2009/04/napowrimo-poem-8.html
years ago, i promised myself i wouldn’t write a poem for him again. but i didn’t say no paragraphs.
the link: http://mountainsofmolehills.blogspot.com/2009/04/napowrimo-8-d.html
Not quite as graphic as yesterday’s- but still kinda icky. What would a psychologist have to say with my sudden infatuation with all things death??? Goodness. I want to do today’s post– I love Wordle! Maybe later…
http://missionimprovisational.blogspot.com/2009/04/reallly-im-not-usually-so-dark.html
I got a bit silly with this one and gave into rhyming. That’s what thinking about old flames does for me.
http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/04/packing/
Third Grade (a haiku) – http://morningsongspoems.blogspot.com/2009/04/third-grade.html
Ah, the good old days.
Can’t do this prompt… never been kissed, never had a boyfriend. Woo freewrite! I’ll probably write it in a few hours.
This is my NaPoMo poem #8 My First
This one was tough….
First Kiss
So far I have written 23 poems at this point! I have not put a link to each one because it may clutter up the postings here! Instead, I’ll just mention how I’m travelling! All this means that when I return to school, I won’t need to worry if school pressures keep me away from posting! I’ll have a backlog!
played with the image previously posted u & i
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Here is one from me combined with the prompt words from Three Word Wednesday:
First Love
Without even realizing it, I wrote a poem about two lovers on the sea… too bad it’s not an autobiographical piece, that’d be so romantic…
http://cassandralee.tumblr.com/post/94316967
I didn’t exactly LIST old flames, but that was sort of the point of my entry:
IT’S NOT FUNNY . . . OR IS IT?
I’m still on track but didn’t follow the prompt for today. I do like it, though, and will use it later. Instead, I wrote this for Totally Optional Prompts.
Meditation on the Letter V
That June Cleaver, she must’ve been a hottie in her day! June Cleaver Sends Her Old Lovers Flying
http://alotus-poetry.livejournal.com/69663.html
This is the fourth or fifth poem I have written about him x)
http://cannedoriginality.blogspot.com/2009/04/there-was-time.html
Anaïs: NaPoWriMo #8
http://a-mus-ing.blogspot.com/2009/04/jason.html
To tell the truth, I didn’t have a lot of time to write, and I’m not too happy with what I came up with. I’m sure I’ll be revisitinhttp://freckledwriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/old-flame.htmlg it. It is, however, based on a real argument I had today…
OK–I’m not sure how I messed up my previous post. Let’s try this again. I didn’t have a lot of time to write, and not too happy with what I came up with. I’m sure I’ll be revisiting it later to try again. This is, however, based on a real argument I had today…
http://freckledwriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/old-flame.html
I MOS DEF want to do this prompt!! In preparation, here’s the warm up:
Charming Haiku
[...] NaPoWriMo Read Write Poem Prompt #8 [...]
YAAAA!!!! I finally found my inspiration
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http://lori102870.blogspot.com/2009/04/ode-to-jasonnapowrimo-8by-me.html
song of the city …. http://djkreutzer.com/moments/archives/388
oh, bittersweet memories.
ehh.
late…but i posted it
didn’t use all the words. I had ten minutes to write, one of my worst yet
Forgot to link this yesterday, but if anyone’s interested, I did enjoy this prompt and learned a little about myself in the process:
Alphabet Love: http://melstra.livejournal.com/236446.html#cutid1
http://birdswordpoetry.wordpress.com/napowrimo-8/
A bit late…but I loved this prompt!
a list without flames
[...] this is how we would begin NaPoWriMo #8 [...]
Cautious
Yikes! This ones heavy and serious! The Old Flames strikes again!!!!
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