Daily Challenge
Your Daily Poetry Challenges will be released here daily! You can use the the challenges as prompts if you like, but if you'd rater just write from your own ideas that is fine too (we support your creativity!). If you manage to write 1 poem for each challenge and record it in your logbook you'll earn 200 points!
Sunday, March 8
Let's start this week off with a happy bang and a cheerful note to let off some slang. That's right - today's Daily Challenge is to have some sort of rhyme pattern in your poem, either at the ends of lines or middle of lines or, who knows, at the beginning! For bonus points, have some kind of camp theme!
Monday, March 9
Inspiration can come from the most unexpected places and sometimes when you least expect it. WAIT! QUICK! Reach out your left arm and whatever is closest to your hand at this exact moment must serve as your muse for your next poem. Ha! I bet you didn't see that coming? I guess I'm going to be writing about this coffee mug that I knocked over... For bonus points, try out changing the expression of your poem with at least five different types of punctuation marks.
Tuesday, March 10
In honor of making it through Day Light Saving's Day, write a poem inspired by Day Light Savings. For extra points make each line one syllable or word shorter than the one before and to practice using our NaPo survival tip - you can only spend up to 15 minutes on the poem!
Wednesday, March 11
In today's challenge you're going to have to be really intentional about setting up the meaning, because the challenge is to create a poem with DOUBLE MEANING. This is a great strategy for making a re-readable and the poetic technique is sometimes called double-entendre. Double meaning can be created by using words or phrases that can be interpreted in two ways or on a larger scale by making an entire metaphor that isn't revealed until the end. @alliyah's slam poetry article has a section on double meaning which you can reference for more information.
Thursday, March 12
After reading William Wordsworth's poem Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, consider a place that holds a lot of significance for you. Reflecting on a physical location that is meaningful to you can elicit an extended poetic meditation and produce some really fantastic things! Tap into physicality and the five senses as much as you can.
Friday, March 13
Structured poetry is a great way to stretch your mind and play with sound-devices you might not usually pay as much attention to. Today's Daily Challenge is to write a Terza Rima that uses two of the following words: camp, fire, lake, bear, bag
Saturday, March 14
Today's theme is editing! Take a poem that you've written before - either from camp napo or just that you've got in your files, and now re-write it, the catch is that you can only use half as many words
Sunday, March 15
Today's our last day of Camp NaPo, looking back on all that you've accomplished should give you the last bit of inspiration you need to look forward to NaPo. Memories can also be great inspiration for poetry. For today's challenge write a poem about milestones and memories written in narrative form or for extra points try putting it in the form of a sonnet!