by the Read Write Poem Staff
We are more than one-third through NaPoWriMo. If you feel like you’ve started to make things up (two parts desperation, one part coffee grinds), then Carolee Sherwood’s prompt for Day 12 will play into your hand.
Make up a secret code. Begin by writing a few nonsense sentences, like “The raindrops tap out a cry for help” or “The dandelions are saying all at once, ‘You are overwhelmed.’” The formula is easy: come up with a message and assign it to something unlikely. Remember, of course, that inanimate objects can speak and that signs and symbols may be nonverbal.
Once you have a few sentences, select the one that is most intriguing to you and use it to start a poem. 
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Inspired by the prompt, though not a one-to-one correspondence to it…
http://triatriatria.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/aubade/
http://thebooklife.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/4-12/
http://bygraceandfaith.tumblr.com
Day and prompt 12
Each gentle wave soothes
and takes with it your salty tears
Each strong wave sucking you under whispers:
I’ll comfort you and take you away.
The sun drying your skin is saying:
“It’s another day”
beating down on your face
massaging the tight fear
embodied in your soul
Dipping back in the ocean
each wave says “welcome back”
cleanse my past and pain
and renew my soul again.
Not literally following the prompt but trying to map a message to something unlikely here.
http://poetry-life-distilled.blogspot.com/2010/04/napowrimo-day-12.html
Well this is really late but as the poem says….she was crook …too ill to write
http://ingeborgsblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/napowrimo-april-12th-secret.html
I used this one today: Best to Ignore the Wind.
My secret code poem is here:
http://ragbone.wordpress.com
http://tasmith1122.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/rwp-napowrimopoetic-asides-day-11/
The Last Meal
Crap. Wrong day. lol
http://bitsandpieces.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/napowrimo-prompt-12-secret-codes/
it’s about fish
http://tasmith1122.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/rwp-napowrimopoetic-asides-day-12/
Shrouded Revel
I am late with this one, I used it as my prompt for day 15: Baseball Signals
http://mayaganesan.blogspot.com/2010/04/napowrimo-12.html
Sorry, my computer was acting up and I couldn’t get my comments here through for days…