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NaPoWriMo

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NaPoWriMo: Heroic Similes

27 April 202227 April 2022

I really don’t think that my use of heroic simile and extended metaphor will be putting Homer out of a …

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NaPoWriMo: Our Lady of the Loos -A Vision

26 April 202226 April 2022

When the daily prompt asks you to try writing an aisling *poem and you take a trip to London only …

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NaPoWriMo: Tulips

25 April 202225 April 2022

Not long to go now. I can’t believe that the month has gone by so fast. Yesterday we were playing …

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NaPoWriMo: Alphabet Poem

23 April 202223 April 2022

Latest prompt: Repetition. I ended up trying an Alphabet poem. Slow slug slimes soft seams Sliding seamless sewn in silks …

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NaPoWriMo: Heather

21 April 202221 April 2022

I’m going off prompt today with a quatrain variation: L1 – 1 noun, L2 – 2 adjectives, L3 – 3 …

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NaPoWriMo: Porridge Power

20 April 202220 April 2022

Anthropomorphize a particular type of food: that’s the optional prompt for NaPoWriMo Day 30. What fun I had going back …

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NaPoWriMo: A Command

20 April 202220 April 2022

Yesterday’s effort, in response to the prompt to write a poem beginning with a command. I can’t believe that we’re …

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NaPoWriMo: Big Question

19 April 202219 April 2022

The prompt this time: to give five dfferent answers to the same question, (without actually mentioning the question itself!) 1.That …

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NaPoWriMo: Dogs

17 April 202217 April 2022

This was a fun challenge; to list all dogs you’ve known, met or heard of, past and present and then …

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NaPoWriMo: Holy Saturday to Easter

17 April 202217 April 2022

Day 16 of NaPoWriMo and we were challenged to write a Curtal Sonnet: Gerard Manley Hopkin’s 11 line variation on …

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NaPoWriMo: Boring!

16 April 202216 April 2022

This was fun! “Write a poem about something you have absolutely no interest in.” Football ball gam[es]bling unless delicate and …

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NaPoWriMo: Catching Up

16 April 202216 April 2022

Here I am; a mini, very mini me, aged zero, in my hospital crib. Here I’ve written a series of …

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