NaPoWriMo 2021
These are the 30 entries from April 2021’s “National Poetry Writing Month” (NaPoWriMo). The prompts can be found at napowrimo.net
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777 and counting…
Writing heals me. Writing gets my brain moving in the right direction. I FEEL BETTER when I write.
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misdirection
I’m somewhere north of Nashville; that’s all you get for now.
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Shattered Pains
If there is glass between me and another world, something needs to change…
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sorry, mom?
is swearing permitted? here?
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exulansis
beyond the shoal; awash, my soul…
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Voiding in Woods on a Snowy Evening
The woods are empty, none to show, The ice has made the stream quite slow, And hours again until I go, And hours again until I go.
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Occasion
I’ve kept these words at bay for years; “Occasion” this shall be.
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Nearly Threatened
Regret is a medium-sized toothed emotion and a uniquely specialized predator…
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wild and precious
Tell me, what else should I have done?Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life? Well, Mary… I MUST call you Mary.I hope that won’t pose a problem,Ms Oliver. In our circle, you are just Mary,and we all know it’s you.…
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crosscut
Many hands make light work, even when the saw only has room for four.
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it may cost your soul
You can, of course, make choices, and…You can, but it may cost your soul.
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dismount
But friendless souls are angry haunts; degrading makes belonging wrong.
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shadowspeak
let’s listen to our shadow for it tells us where we’ve been or where we will be.
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Lunacy
Who knows what else that thing can do?
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6 by 6 – it will… transfix?
My goal of six is quite sublime, E’en if I have to rhyme with ‘slime’.
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Necessary Irritants
GOOD LORD – IT JUST KEEPS COMING.
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Winged Haunt
Other creatures fly with far less hope.
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whatever works
I still don’t know if any hearts were opened.
defying atrophy 