napowrimo #23: put on another (cowboy) hat
by Carolee Sherwood
What do you have in common with a cowboy? What do you share with a circus clown? How are you like a fireman, a supermodel, an alligator wrestler? For today’s NaPoWriMo prompt, pick a new career or lifestyle, assume the identity and start writing.
We all wear many hats, but for today’s poem, dream up a new hat and write a poem while looking out at the world from beneath its brim. “The poet as pilot.” “The wife as bullfighter.” “The mother as janitor.” (I hope you’re able to stretch a little bit more than that. None of my examples are too far out of the realm of possibilities, but I hope they give you an idea of what the prompt is asking. Go wild.)
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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 today’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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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!
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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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- make your own book: get off the computer and onto the paper
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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.
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Here’s my # 22
Form Over Function or Functionless Form
http://brokeness.blogspot.com/2009/04/napowrimo-22.html
I’ve chosen a different image in pareeerica’s collectio.
<a href=”http://watermaid.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/the-lonely-path/”The Lonely Path
The link didn’t work so I’ll try again.
The Lonely Path
here’s mine, coming at the prompt sideways.
http://knittingthewind-westering.blogspot.com/2009/04/road-drags-at-my-feet-tempting-me-to.html
Well, I missed a few days, but here is a new poem.
Corpus Christi.
http://poemsotherwise.blogspot.com/2009/04/attention.html
I don’t know how I ended up like this:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2009/04/going-from-one-extreme-to-other.html
A haiku today: A Hooded Crow
perry [mason] ha! fu 2
The hat I wore this morning was that of the wife of David Kellermann, the Freddie Mac CFO, who committed suicide early yesterday morning…
A Mother’s View…
here is #23…the hat i wore was that of a
CAR WASHER
wearing my cowgirl hat
http://a-mus-ing.blogspot.com/2009/04/cowgirl.html
and today…
i am taken by the prompt tho so maybe more later
A different hat.
http://paperdreams-jgc.blogspot.com/2009/04/day-23-i-never-wear-hats.html
My NaPoWriMo #23 entry is written from the perspective of Phillip Marlowe’s widow
on my facebook notes
and
here:
http://dash30dash.ning.com/profiles/blogs/widow-marlowes-last-case
write on
[...] This poem was made using a skeleton from another poem of mine (you can read the original here). Skeleton is below — you’ll notice I didn’t stick to it exactly (where’s the fun in that?). Feel free to use it if you like, just leave me a link so I can read it! More Napowrimo Day 23 poems here. [...]
Day 23!
http://thisyearsblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/napowrimo-2009-day-23-down-to-the-bare-bones/
A rondeau with fangs.
http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/04/a-career-path-not-taken
A grouchy router slowed me up but could not keep me down! Sorry I’ve been out of commission for the past week…. ugh! How frustrating.
If you can forgive me, come on back and catch up with some of my backed-up poetry while I suffered alone and bereft of internet in my lonely wirelessness!
http://missionimprovisational.blogspot.com/2009/04/back-among-blogging-on-router-deaths.html
Here’s my NaPoMo poem #23, a bit of whimsy: Fashion Faux Pas
Are you nearly there yet?!!!
Links
I’m up and ready. Didn’t follow the prompt exactly,
(, but it’s done.
http://lori102870.blogspot.com/2009/04/hat-of-different-colornapowrimo-23by-me.html
I didn’t do the prompt, but “it is this” for #23:
http://therer2doors-thespacebetweenwords.blogspot.com/2009/04/it-is-this.html
En la celebración de la terminación de mi examinación oral en español hoy…
poema en español
En la celebración de la terminación de mi examinación oral en español hoy…
Fixing the broken link above
poema en español
Here’s mine:
http://freckledwriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/plants.html
I found this prompt exceedingly difficult until I decided to let go and just have fun with it….
A Pirates Life for Me
[...] a nod to Carolee’s prompt at Read Write Poem about wearing different hats. (My husband brought me a beautiful kippah from Jerusalem. I don’t use it. I sometimes wish I [...]
[...] For Read Write Poem’s [...]
I took the prompt in a slightly different direction:
Wish for Rain
here’s my response to #23 put on another hat
http://eneri-hot.blogspot.com/2009/04/masseuse.html
SEW REGRETS – DENIM DELUXE
http://alotus-poetry.livejournal.com/75410.html
[...] was triggered by the Read Write Prompt for day 23: Put on another (cowboy) hat. One of the examples given was a mother-matador, and for some reason it just stuck in my [...]
Donning the hat of author of a sad single’s ad:
http://antarcticamag.wordpress.com/
I am sooo late: http://deowriter.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/poetry-friday-outside-my-window/
Had fun time imagining what if I WERE God/dess
http://joybringer.gaia.com/blog/2009/4/omg_-_if_i_were_god_dess_napowrimo_23
A bit late, but I was in Chicago with no free time.
Didn’t follow the prompt.
http://cassandralee.tumblr.com/post/100487766