2020 Camp NaPo Campsite

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   niteowl
   niteowl · Mar 2, 2020

   Niteowl pitching a tent here. Excited to warm up for NaPo!
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   niteowl
   niteowl · Mar 9, 2020

   Challenge: use rhyme, make it camp themed
   
   They say you should be warm
   And safe at camp. No one warns
   You that monsters are real,
   They just happen to feel
   More like words from peers
   Then deformed creatures of our worst fears.
   And those words are like ghosts,
   Haunting us through the years,
   Making us believe we are not okay
   And we don’t deserve to be warm and safe.
   
   Uh that got darker than I expected. Also excuse formatting I’m on my phone.
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   niteowl
   niteowl · Mar 10, 2020

   Okay so challenge #2 : my hand landed on my pile of post-it notes.
   
   I am no great keeper of lists.
   
   notepads, notebooks,
   post-it notes of every size,
   every scribble a promise
   that things will be different this time.
   a to-do list written the night before
   is an attempt at order that breaks down
   as my brain remembers piece by piece
   the things that should have taken priority,
   so arrows and cross-outs and sideways notes
   from unexpected calls dominate
   the once-neat list
   that I cannot be entrusted to keep.
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   niteowl
   niteowl · Mar 10, 2020

   Challenge #3 : daylight savings time, one word/syllable shorter, write in 15 minutes haha like I've ever spent longer than 15 minutes on a NaPo poem
   
   i used to relish long nights of games,
   nine pm basketball, too young for darkness
   in my heart, but i grew
   up and braved dark mornings.
   as fall set in,
   i wondered, "can
   anything be
   saved?"
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   niteowl
   niteowl · Mar 11, 2020

   Preserving my shorties from the workshop. Will have to work on Challenge #4 later.
   
   left,
   door slammed,
   Post-It note,
   "i won't be back"
   gone
   
   (a somewhat sloppily formatted lanturne)
   
   If you had given me
   
   Quite enough to live on, or PTO to
   Use, I would not have trawled the
   Internet looking for a new place to occupy my
   Time. But you didn't, so this is goodbye.
   
   (a pretty literal acrostic lol)
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   niteowl
   niteowl · Mar 12, 2020

   Challenge #4 : Double Meaning
   
   Dare to pick truth, my dear,
   to spare us this sparring.
   Because I cannot lie with lies
   and the dogs are wide awake and howling.
   
   We were a pair until you decided
   to pare us down to the bones.
   All I wanted was to do right and keep you close,
   but all you wanted was to write our closing chapter.

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