POEMS- NaPoWriMo Review

NaPoWriMo  WHAT?  

It is not some Native American celebration or tradition.  It stands for:

National Poetry Writing Month.

Every year, there is a writing challenge for National Poetry Month to write a poem a day for all 30 days in April.   There is a website that gives you writing prompts and suggestions if you need some added inspiration.   (April is National Poetry Month)

April is the

cruelest

month breeding lilacs

out of dead land

t.s. elliott

Now if you are a poet, or a writer who sometimes does a poem here or there, trying to force yourself to write something every day is of course going to give you mixed results.  You are not going to write brilliant poems every day and you should not think for a moment that you will be equally inspired every day to turn out wonderful, lasting work.

It is a challenge however and when it comes to writing and poetry I do love challenges.

Some of the poems I've written I will forget... perhaps a line or idea will wind up in something worth keeping.   Some of the poems will be worth setting aside and working on to improve and play with until they are ready perhaps to be submitted for publishing or to be read aloud at poetry readings.

A website to check out is:

readwritepoem.org   (google it). 

Here's a few poems  I've written so far in April.

THE UGLY

 APRIL 10, 2008

YOU

 FIGURE OUT THE GENIUS

OF THE POETRY IN THE PAGES

OF THE BOOK.

I'VE STARED AT IT FOR HOURS

WANTING TO LIKE IT,

WANTING TO BE INSPIRED BY IT,

LOOKING FOR A PHRASE

WITH A NEW TWIST OR TWO

I COULD MAKE MINE,

BUT ALL OF IT SEEMS DULL

AND SOME FORCED AND BANAL

WHY  WERE THESE POEMS

PUBLISHED?

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NOT AWFUL

APRIL 9TH, 2008

Despising the helpless waste of sleep

The restless tosses and turns

can't turn off the chatter within,

not by counting,

not by fantasizing,

not by substituting positive mental attitude clichés

You're great!   Tomorrow will be a great day.

You can do anything you set your mind to do.

So. . .

It's up to watch old Western

Gary Cooper, trying to teach

Walter Brennan a lesson.

But I LOVE this movie (The Westerner)

And don't fall asleep,

But watch it all the way through

And wonder how I will

possibly function  this whole day through

with barely two hours sleep.

APRIL 18

I believe her when she writes;

‘half my Nobel prize money goes to you,'.

She doesn't dream she'll get nominated

But when she does

when she wins and forgets her promise to me,

again my heart will break.

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GETTING THERE

APRIL 20TH, 2008

The knight is shining armor

The white knight in shining armor

Rescues the damsel in distress

Rescues the black guy in the nick of time.

Fairy tales are alive and well

In corporate loving America.

In movies at your local Cineplex

Coming soon to a DVD near you.

Give me my 300 dollar extra tax return

So I can buy something worth 3,000 dollars

And make easy monthly payments for the next few years

Until I declare bankruptcy when my interest rates

Skyrocket from 4 percent to 12.

Like a wide screen h.d. t.v.

Or a gas guzzling SUV

Or a war on Iraq.

Piper dances and plays a nice soothing tune

We aren't going to pay him anytime soon.

No, that won't happen

in the greatest country in the world.

No.. not anytime soon.

April 21, 2008

The water prays to its shore,

the land erects itself into a mountain

to praise the sky,

The sky stretches itself thin

to filter the universe;

I ask for just one long

kiss.

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Challenge yourself to write a poem a day for the next couple of weeks.  I dare ya....