by Juliet Wilson
The world seems to be getting noisier all the time, and often writers find themselves needing to block it out so they can concentrate. Well this week, don’t do that. Instead, listen to all the noise and let it inspire your poetry!
For example, you could write a mood piece based on the sounds around you at the moment or write a narrative driven by sound. Or you might prefer to write about silence. Or something else entirely.
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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 next week’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)!
Here’s mine for today:
movie script ending
Inspired by a song I was listening to at the time.
Twitter-time
Silence says it all
http://poemsotherwise.blogspot.com/2009/04/arid-summer-words-dry-after-argument.html
For almost the first time I’m not using the prompt, I have posted two tonight so I am all caught up for the day I missed
Sloe Gin
Here is my NaPoMo poem #24: My Words
Day 24 — just one more week!
http://thisyearsblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/nablopomo-2009-day-24-a-found-poem/
Here’s my # 23
Pushing Beyond the Albatross:
http://brokeness.blogspot.com/2009/04/pushing-beyond-albatross-napowrimo-23.html
here’s mine for tonight, with thanks.
http://knittingthewind-westering.blogspot.com/2009/04/read-write-poem-is-psychic.html
This is my NaPoMo poem #24-A: Dissonance
And here is mine:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2009/04/moon-eats-sugar-puffs.html
Here’s mine:
Sounds of silence
Here’s mine:
http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2009/04/reformuation-of-silence.html and I look forward to readign everyone else’s
THE DIVINE DELIVERER
echo
http://a-mus-ing.blogspot.com/2009/04/echo.html
I got mine posted before noon! :0)
http://freckledwriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/break-through.html
24th NaPoWriMo poem
on my
facebook notes
and here:
http://dash30dash.ning.com/profiles/blogs/sincerely-lc-napowrimo-24-1
write on.
in uses today’s prompt shock!
Not very noisy ~ but it at least mentions guitars!
Casting
Feels about 1/2 half done: Middle Ear
a silence of sorts…
{my own}
http://itsacanadiangeek.blogspot.com/2009/04/april-09-post-poem-11.html
Day 24.
http://paperdreams-jgc.blogspot.com/2009/04/day-24-im-listening-to-spring-songare.html
Here’s mine.
Petrified Noise – a triolet
http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/04/petrified-noise
http://lori102870.blogspot.com/2009/04/lovers-leftoversnapowrimo-24by-me.html
instead of dancing on the head of the pin
Angels at the Point
The LISTEN poem took a shape & form of its own…
Here’s a version that is embedded in tulip trees image
http://joybringer.gaia.com/blog/2009/4/listen_and_napowrimo_23
here’s mine
listen
Here is #24…..UNPLUGGED
my response to #24 listen up
http://eneri-hot.blogspot.com/2009/04/ambient-sounds.html
PASTURE PARTNERS – OPPOSITES ATTRACT
I’m back: I got my wisdom teeth out last week. (: Hopefully I can write double the poetry this week to make up for what I missed.
Here’s my first poem for today.
Silence, Brushed Over With Cheap Gold Paint
http://morningsongspoems.blogspot.com/2009/04/silence-brushed-over-with-cheap-gold.html
a long week of testing leads to this one for #24:
http://therer2doors-thespacebetweenwords.blogspot.com/2009/04/quiet-please-children-testing.html
TAKEN FOR A RIDE – DRIVING LESSONS
Symphony of Sound
The cicada call for mates makes me stir
in bed late at night, shuffle, shuffle the sheets
where legs meet without lubricant-
no glide only pop-stick.
Away from here–dogs howl trying to be wolves
and cats cry like babies I should have by now.
But the phone doesn’t drip–it’s empty
I took the last sip when I said, “Good-bye.”
Good-bye, a hush of breath mumbled
under your words, folded, folded, pulled
plucked, gone, swished over and spit out.
This one was inspired by a photograph but it is about sound nevertheless
Inchmahome
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Here is my poem inspired by the severe weather this week:
Storm
Instead of listening I went shopping in a more unfortunate area than the place I live in and this was my experience.
I was in Chicago with no free time, so this is a tad late. Love the prompt, though.
http://cassandralee.tumblr.com/post/100492770
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