by the Read Write Poem Staff
Valentine’s Day is long past, says Read Write Poem member Jill Crammond Wickham, but we poets must keep up our reputation as the world’s foremost experts on writing about love!
Today, think of your current love, your current obsession or the one who got away. Now come up with five or more unusual metaphors for the object of your affection/obsession: wool scarf, cough drop, puddle, half-empty bottle of red wine… Choose your favorite of the bunch and write a poem celebrating (or trashing) your love. 
Reminders for everyone
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My most painful one to eek out thus far: Obsession, Okay?. Tomorrow’s will be better for me, I decided.
Not on prompt today.
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Nanny Saves Boy
She ran into flames,
literally–
barefoot on burning carpet
Rushed
with singular purpose
toward a single soul.
Bravery yes, but what caught
my breath was the force
made visible by the searing light,
the fury of love.
My unusual love connection…
http://mylineofwords.blogspot.com/2010/04/napowrimo-8-my-mr-rochester.html
NaPoWriMo #08 second poem Watershed
A Prayerstone god of my familiar
I am revisiting, what we once left
in soft prayer beside the
scattered temple of you and I
I summon the love of peace be
reassembled in our names
*this one is late but I’m still in.
Arch & Pulse
In her black-and-pink New
Balance shoes, I’m the Ultra
Arch Support; and in my green
hi-top Nikes, she’s the Pulse
Technology.
Geoff M. Pope replied:
April 9th, 2010 at 1:26 am
P.S. Poem posted at 11:24 (PDT) in Renton, WA.
Here is my # 8:
Step Into Your Life
http://brokeness.blogspot.com/2010/04/napowrimo-8-step-into-your-life.html
Here’s my poem http://zevoice.blogspot.com/2010/04/string-of-pearls.html
Day 8 at http://alienfireworks.blogspot.com/2010/04/day-8-rwp-suggests-another-love-poem.html
http://self-intoxication.deviantart.com/art/Mezzanine-Blues-160104409
hmmm…
http://scriptophobe.blogspot.com/2010/04/napowrimo-8-unusual-love-connections.html
Off Schedule
This morning, you are
the 7:10 bus.
You are just entering the neighborhood
and I am a block away from the pickup point.
Even though you are trundling along at a mere ten miles an hour,
I will miss you.
My pain is all the greater at seeing you that
close,
within view,
but not near enough to touch.
hubris
that feather in my cap
caught an updraft,
lifted skyward, and left me bereft:
earthbound and humble
Marie replied:
April 9th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Great one.
Two off-topic pieces, while I’m on my trip. I’ve been “snapshot” writing to fulfill my poetic requirements, but surely the drafts will change radically with time.
http://avniously.blogspot.com/2010/04/from-phoenix.html
Late, but very proud of this one. Please let me know what you think.
http://tasmith1122.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/rwp-napowrimopoetic-asides-day-8/
http://bitsandpieces.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/napowrimo-8-unusual-love-connections/
Only four days off. Bleh.
“The Kookaburra Laughs”
http://poemsaboutnothinginparticular.blogspot.com/2010/04/kookaburra-laughs-napowrimo-8.html
http://jazzandpoetry.com/2010/04/napowrimo-8-unusual-love-connections/