Today’s Prompt: Write a poem that begins and ends with the same word. I barely kept my eyes open, but I did it!
SLEEP
Sleep beckons in the afternoon air
My heavy eyes close with no thought or care
But the day is young still with so much to do
Bake pizzas and cookies before the day’s through
I must keep moving my goals I will keep
Before I lay my head down in a luxurious sleep.
I am behind on my poems. Sunday was the Banquet. Monday I subbed for grades 5-8. Tuesday I subbed for grades K-2. Today I recovered from the past 3 days!! I haven’t decided if I will try to make up my lost days, or just begin anew tomorrow. Life has felt really busy and maybe it’s easier to write poetry when I’m feeling relaxed.
We have also had to face the facts regarding the 2 ER visits we had earlier this year, and the financial toll it will take on our pocket-book. I think I’m feeling a lot of stress about that, and poetry simply doesn’t flow when I’m feeling stressed.
But I will try again tomorrow! I love writing poetry, and I’ve had a lot of fun so far, so I’m certainly not going to allow a bump in the road to derail me completely.
Prompt: Write from the voice of a super hero, or super villain.
Honestly, I am not inspired by this idea at all and it’s 11:30pm. I’m going to spit something out this evening on the fly.
Here goes…
THE MOTIVATOR
You can do it
She always said
Showing me first
The path I’ll tread
Stretching me past
The limits instead
Showing me ways
To do something new
Inspiring my thoughts
The result was I grew
Touching my heart
In ways that are true
Thank you Teacher Lily!
~My Mentor
~My Teacher
~My Friend
Ok, not bad for a last minute poem! It’s 11:42pm. That was a great 12 minutes!
Todays prompt: Write an “un-love poem”.
BROKEN PROMISE
The wrinkles wrap her hand in time
New lines form with each day
The ring of promise circles none
Instead it’s tucked away
With card and song he gave to her
This token of his heart
Small steps they took to seal their love
A future they would start
But as time passed he never asked
And love walked out the door
The ring she kept forgotten not
But hidden in a drawer
The promise to be one at last
A memory she could see
But he forgot the promise made
And had a new family
The ring an empty void of love
Was once a dream to start
But life not lived between these two
Broke the promise broke the heart
By KMc
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I looked up the writing prompt this morning from the NaPoWriMo blog site to see what ideas they had. It was suggested to write a poem with the rhyming pattern A-B-A-B-A-B-C-C, so I gave it a try. I will say that I enjoy being inspired much more by the beauty or events surrounding me, than trying to follow a certain pattern. But I made it work and wrote a poem. I don’t like it. I feel like I did it because I had to.
FORCED POETRY LACKS INSPIRATION
The clock keeps ticking 1-2-3
A poem I must write today
A-B-A-B-A-B-C-C
Follow the pattern this way
A few more lines forced out of me
But there’s not much to say
If I wasn’t cramming this would be fun
This is the last line and now I’m done:)
By KMc
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Earlier today, I jumped in with both feet and didn’t even explain what was going on. April is Poetry month, and WordPress sent me an email about a poetry challenge for this month. The goal is to write a poem each day this month, and post it on your blog, and tag it so others in the challenge can find what you’ve written and read it. I don’t think mine will be very exciting, but I like the idea of this challenge, and I like trying to write poetry, so I’m going to give it a shot!
The idea came from here if anyone wants to check it out:
I have a few poems from times past that I will probably post, but I will have to come up with a lot of new material to fill up an entire month. I think this will be a fun challenge. I hope all my readers (all 10 of them) enjoy it as well:)
By KMc
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