by Jill Crammond Wickham
Today, keep track of all the things you see that are red; be creative. Red-faced is as good as a red tomato or a red sky. Use the ones that interest you most in a poem.
For added enjoyment, try coming up with several synonyms for red to use in your poem. Stuck? Visit the Visual Thesaurus.
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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 this 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 my poem for today; I used the random prompt in the sidebar.
http://knittingthewind-westering.blogspot.com/2009/04/two-poems-today-first-because-i-liked.html
Here’s my poem. I did not use a prompt.
Beware of Homosapiens:
http://brokeness.blogspot.com/2009/04/beware-of-homosapiens-forget-about-dog.html
http://poemsotherwise.blogspot.com/2009/04/red-runs.html
Seeing red
http://heretheyrest.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/crimson-days/
[...] Ginsberg’s American sentence (17 syllables like the haiku). The prompt at Read Write Poem is ’seeing red’. I’ve given my American sandwich a British flavour by making it red white and blue. If I had [...]
Today i have written An Anglo-American
my poem is also titled ’seeing red’
http://eneri-hot.blogspot.com/2009/04/seeing-red.html
[...] pot pourri Posted on April 28, 2009 by gautami tripathy it is not merely an olive branch I extend on to you, towards you can’t you read every bud on it, in the angled branches, still so green you want each word circled, each line underlined with a red marker? [...]
A haiku of rain in Texas
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2009/04/pot-pourri.html
Call me a rebel.
See red, if you will.
I changed “red” to “read,”
So the red ink wouldn’t spill.
Linda
A THOUSAND THOUGHTS – BECKONED HOMEWARD
my poem poem for today
NaPoWriMo
Read was an interesting one. I chose to see red!
Lady in Red
Where will you walk today?
this is me. still trudging.
i thought red. fire engine. engine. train engine. then i thought of a conductor i knew. this is a poem about him.
Keep it up folks!
<a href=”http://thisbrokensky.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/napowrimo-2009-28/”Today’s Red
Oh no, not again
Today’s Red
Still playing catch up on past posts….take a look, enjoy, and keep up the good work everyone!
http://iwriteforreal.blogspot.com/2009/04/napowrimo-poem-14.html
I thought it would get easier the closer we got to the end. I was wrong.
http://paperdreams-jgc.blogspot.com/2009/04/day-28-nearing-end-and-my-writing-has.html
Some Other Mother’s Red-Letter History
[...] For Read Write Poem’s prompt, [...]
One of my favorite colors:
Joy of Seeing Red
Wow, you’ve all been busy while I’ve been in bed, I thought I was getting in early today.
An Absence of Red
I wrote about red on day 4, and didn’t feel another red poem in me, so I took the “random writing tip” on the sidebar, which was to write about a current event in the news…
http://freckledwriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/post-falls-gas-station.html
“that red bag” for #28…
http://therer2doors-thespacebetweenwords.blogspot.com/2009/04/red-bag.html
Thanks for the RED prompt!
Here’s mine:
DON’T WALK DON’T WALK DON’T
I wrote mine on the random prompt on the right side. The word was jejune
#28 Little Red Iris
Late today but it’s done.
I’ve been looking at red things all day and even had my students helping me!
A very rough sestina on frogs with some red in it -
http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/04/the-croak-of-the-wild
http://cassandralee.tumblr.com/post/101284906
[...] A few others are seeing red today. Find them at Read Write Poem. [...]
BARELY THINKING – BEARING UP
The Bride Wore Red
http://destineeweathers.blogspot.com/2009/04/bride-wore-red.html
Couldn’t follow the prompt as written, but I think I didn’t do too bad of a job.
http://lori102870.blogspot.com/2009/04/lunch-time-visionsthree-in-one-blogby.html
[...] NaPoWriMo Read Write Poem Prompt #28 [...]
here is my poem: http://deowriter.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/napowrimo-seeing-red/
Work is getting in the way, but my latest poem, “City Lights”, is over at http://sandarastraveljournal.blogspot.com/
at http://waynepitchko.blogspot.com
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http://www.waynepitchko.blogspot.com