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Hey Poetry People! Today's April PAD Challenge asks participants to write a memory poem.
Meanwhile, today's NaPoWriMo prompt asks participants to "honor the ones in the number eleven."
They suggest creating a monostitch (a one-line poem) or making a poem inspired by single lines. I took inspiration from the first line of the poem Lines For the Fortune Cookies.
The first line of this poem is I think you're wonderful and so does everyone else.
I can assure you, this is something no one ever said to me. I more often heard about everything I was doing wrong than anything I was doing right. Apparently, I was doing a whole lot of things wrong. This bothered me quite a bit for most of my life. I'm pretty resigned to it now. In any case, I wrote a Tanka about what a disappointment I was for my parents. They were expecting a sweet, well-behaved, adorable little girl, not the freakish fuckup they ended up with. So it goes.
Stop by again tomorrow. I may have more poetry and thoughts to share.
~Ornery Owl Has Spoken~
Ornery Owl Sez:
It's not easy being green. Or ornery.
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