Poetry Prompts and Inspiration Day 29 April PAD Challenge and NaPoWriMo

 

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Serendipity! Owls and meat, all in one picture!

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-29

Today's April PAD Challenge prompt asks participants to write a sight poem.

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-nine-9/

Today's NaPoWriMo prompt asks participants to start by reading Alberto Rios’s poem “Perfect for Any Occasion.” 

https://poets.org/poem/perfect-any-occasion

Next, write your own two-part poem that focuses on food. At some point in the poem, describe the food as if it were a person. Give the food/meal at least one line of spoken dialogue.

My poem focused on the age-old "I tried to change my carnivorous ways" conundrum. The food does "speak," but I didn't describe it as if it were a person. I was going for carnivorous, not cannibalistic. 

I'm keeping it brief today as I need to hop on the Editing Express Elevator to Hell.

Going down!

~Ornery Owl Has Spoken~

Hangry Wyrm

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"I don't like it when my food talks to me, Ornery. How about you?"

Ornery Owl (in Pit Master Mode)

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"I prefer food that doesn't talk back myself, Hangry."

Poetry Prompts and Inspiration Day 28 April PAD Challenge and NaPoWriMo 2023

 

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This guy seems like the nit-picky type.

It's almost over, and I swear this year April damn near killed me, no joke. It only has two days left to accomplish its mission. 

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-28

This prompt from the April PAD Challenge asks participants to write a You Are Blank poem. I almost called my poem You Are A Pillock, but then I decided You Are A Pettifogger is classier. No, I'm not joking. The title of my poem really is You Are A Pettifogger.

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-27

The other April PAD Challenge prompt asks participants to write an anapodoton poem. Yeah, I didn't know what it was either. Here's a nice list of English anapodotons. 

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_examples_of_anapodoton

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-eight-9/

Today's NaPoWriMo prompt asks participants to write an index poem. This prompt definitely inspired the feel of my poem, but in fairness, the poem may be more of a list poem than an index poem. Or it may be neither. I run off anapodotons one after the other, ending them in unique ways while cryptically insulting the kind of critic who nit-picks the hell out of everything and pats themselves on the back for doing so. 

With such lines as 

"If you can’t stand the heat, go sit in the shade,

But don’t you be thinking I’d bring you lemonade."

I think you can get a sense of what I was going for.

I'm not sure why Grammarly thinks I'd want to end the line "don't you be thinking I'd bring you lemonade" with a question mark. I'm not asking a question, I'm making a statement. 

~Ornery Owl Has Spoken~

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Ornery Owl is done with everyone's shyyyyyt. 

Poetry Prompts and Inspiration Day 26 April PAD Challenge and NaPoWriMo 2023

 

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Hah--bet you weren't expecting that picture! Nobody expects to see a corpse-flower in a post about poetry prompts. Or anywhere but a greenhouse in a botanic garden, really.

I admit to having a bit of a fascination with this large and smelly bloom. I've written about it before. 

So, what the hell does a big, stinky flower have to do with poetry? Did I write an ode to a corpse-flower?

No, but the corpse-flower does get a mention in today's poem. Let's introduce the prompts. It's all NaPoWriMo today. I'll bundle today's April PAD Challenge prompt with others on another day.

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-four-9/

This prompt asks participants to write a poetic review of something not usually reviewed .

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-five-9/

This prompt asks participants to read the e e cummings poem [somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond].

https://poets.org/poem/somewhere-i-have-never-travelledgladly-beyond

Having completed this assignment, participants are then instructed to write a love poem, one that names at least one flower, contains one parenthetical statement, and in which at least some lines break in unusual places.

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-six-9/

This prompt asks participants to write a portrait poem that focuses on or plays with the meaning of the subject’s name. 

I chose myself as the subject for the poem. I critiqued myself and my writing in poetic fashion from the viewpoint of a snooty reviewer, comparing my creative output to the malodorous reek of a corpse-flower. I took the broad meaning of my first name, referring to myself as a "a not well-beloved hack writer". My first name means "beloved" in Italian or "friend" in Celtic.

My middle name is Lorraine, which is a French town. My last name broadly means a stag in a field. Thus, I compare myself to a stag standing in an open field outside a French town during hunting season.

For those who might be preparing to chide me not to belittle myself, the poem is taking the piss. The real target of ridicule is not me but the literary snob who enjoys writing scathing reviews. I imagined what such a person would say about my writing, so I said it first, thumbing my nose at them in verse. 

~Ornery Owl Has Spoken~

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Poetry Prompts and Inspiration Day 25 April PAD Challenge and NaPoWriMo Day 23

 

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People, I'm going to tell you the truth, I don't think I can squeeze many more words out of me today. I wrote a bit over 3000 in Captain Sammy's Treasure. I didn't do any poetry yesterday, so I squashed three April PAD Challenge prompts together today and finally wrote that contentious six-word poem! How ya like me now?

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-21

I also used the prompt requesting a touch poem

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-24

And this month's final Twofer Tuesday prompt, which asks for a dream and/or reality poem.

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-25

So, how the hell did I squeeze three prompts into one poem?

I wish I could show you, but then I couldn't submit it for publication, so I'll have to tell you.

I gave the poem the title Dream or Reality.

The poem refers to a cold touch. Is this touch happening in waking reality, or is it a nightmare?

And that's how I did it!

I may write a second poem today or I may not. In the meantime, I'm going to get dinner going.

~Ornery Owl Has Spoken~

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Here's Joe Farrell's cool 1975 album for your listening pleasure. They don't write 'em like this anymore!

https://odysee.com/@TerminalPassage:c/joe-farrell-%E2%80%93-canned-funk-%281975%29:7?r=GTwnGJ4fFBQfzuJgpHVpfKBKaC9b8B16

That album cover is wild, y'all.

Poetry Prompts and Inspiration Day 23 April PAD Challenge and NaPoWriMo 2023

 

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I guess you can see where my mind and heart are at today. Never mind, I'm pretty sure no fucks are given. Let's get to the poetry prompts.

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-three-9/

Today's prompt asks participants to:

Start off by reading Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s “Lockdown Garden.” 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/154207/lockdown-garden

Now, try to write a poem of your own that has multiple numbered sections.

I have been putting off the Day 21 prompt from the April PAD Challenge requesting a six-word poem. 

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-21

In case I never write a six-word poem, I have written a six-verse poem that contains words.

Attempt to have each section be in dialogue with the others, like a song where a different person sings each verse, giving a different point of view. 

I did that...sort of. I don't think anyone would want to sing what I wrote.

Set the poem in a specific place that you used to spend a lot of time in, but don’t spend time in anymore.

I didn't do that. The poem was in my head, a place where I probably spend too much time.

Yesterday's April PAD Challenge prompt asks participants to write a What Blank poem.

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-22

The title of my poem is What Is My Destiny?

Today's April PAD Challenge poem asks participants to write a fear poem.

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-23

Sadly, fear is an emotion I am all too acquainted with.

That's all for today. I need to get out of the gloomy part of my brain and find the innovative storytelling part. This shit is getting depressing.

~Ornery Owl Has Spoken~

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Some great jazz from Japan.

Poetry Prompts and Inspiration Day 22 April PAD Challenge and NaPoWriMo 2023

 

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Good morning, afternoon, evening, or whatever. Poetry is why we're here, so let's get to it!

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-two-9/

Today's prompt from NaPoWriMo asks participants to "find an Emily Dickinson poem – preferably one you’ve never previously read – and take out all the dashes and line breaks. Make it just one big block of prose. Now, rebreak the lines. Add words where you want. Take out some words. Make your own poem out of it!"

I hit the pause button on the April PAD prompt again because this was a big undertaking! After reading my resulting poem, the potential first publisher may wish the undertaker would come for me. Meh, it's not my problem if some people cannot recognize greatness!

Anyway, here are your Emily Dickinson resources, including links to the poems I abused...I mean, gleaned inspiration from.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/emily-dickinson#about

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52139/fame-is-a-bee-1788

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52134/fame-is-a-fickle-food-1702

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48184/faith-is-fine-invention-202

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47652/because-i-could-not-stop-for-death-479

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47651/after-great-pain-a-formal-feeling-comes-372

I hope Emily might appreciate my resulting poem. I dedicated it to her.

I once knew a family where both the husband and wife were related to Emily Dickinson in one way or another. Don't ask me to try and remember how. The husband and my father both taught at the same college, and this is where I knew them from. Since those days, Death has kindly stopped for all of them, including my father.

I've been a right mess this week. I think I may finally be getting back to abnormal. I'll probably feel better after a little breakfast.

~Ornery Owl Has spoken~

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I was listening to this great 1978 Japanese jazz album while creating the post. Enjoy!

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Poetry Prompts and Inspiration April PAD Challenge and NaPoWriMo Day 21

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https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-one-8/

Today's prompt from NaPoWriMo asks participants to read Sarah Gambito’s poem “Grace," then choose a word from their list of abstract nouns to use as their poem's title. They also suggest including at least one invented word. I invented two words, because I'm an overachiever like that.

I chose one of the nouns for the title, then used all of them in my short, sharp, choppy poem about, you guessed it, anxiety. Because my anxiety has damn near done me in this month. 

I opted to leave the April PAD Challenge prompt for another day because it asks participants to write a six-word poem. The NaPoWriMo list by itself contained more than six words.

~Ornery Owl Has Spoken~

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I hope you enjoy this German prog rock from 1977. I also find it makes a great soundtrack for writing my epic novella about Captain Sammy's treasure.