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We're getting so close to the halfway point of #NaPo and I can't wait!!!!! This might be the furthest I've ever gotten in NaPo and I'm actually sooo excited !!!!

#NaPo

time flies in a jail cell
time flies into my jail cell
but it never flies back out

It was cloudy today so I couldn't see the eclipse. But I watched it on a Livestream and it was stunning, so here's a haiku I wrote for #NaPo

a luna moth floats
over the moon's corona
as onlookers cheer.

#NaPo

blue walls and gray faces
the color has leaked from their pretty eyes
to all the wonderful places.
oh how time flies!

Exactly!

LadyMysterio wrote:While I love veggies. It is the first day of #napo and #campnano

Snoink wrote:THIS should be the focus today. Not this stupid vegetable thing...

keystrings wrote:Whoopeee happy first day of Camp NaNo + NaPo !

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While I love veggies. It is the first day of #napo and #campnano

Snoink wrote:THIS should be the focus today. Not this stupid vegetable thing...

keystrings wrote:Whoopeee happy first day of Camp NaNo + NaPo !

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I’m really considering doing #NaPo this year. Feeling rather poetical, lol

Im curious, whos got a plan/prepared for #campnano or #NaPo and whoes just like this is my plot/ Theme and im winging it

Alas, no #NaPo for me this year because I need to focus on novel deadlines </3 I mean I'm happy to have them, but. this is usually the only time of year I Poet anymore

Li'l avie change to match my Camp Nano story hehe
got inspired by all the fun #napo ones

So about my #Napo ... I think I'm gonna keep it private this year. I have a theme and everything, totally planned out, but the subject matter is something I think I want to keep off the internet for privacy reasons. Idk maybe select poems will be shared but I think a large majority won't.
To be clear, totally still participating, just not publicly.

my life problem is i’m not at the columbia river gorge right now

kinda of obsessed with how i keep getting poetic inspiration now that #NaPo is over. love my brain for that.

also hi i just wrote a poem about sororities, which i really need to post once i get enough points to

the reason i wrote a review for the first time in ages was to publish a new poem for the first time in ages, too, outside of #NaPo

mr. crazy villain villain is a very queer poem i wrote that was partially inspired by a game i suddenly remembered playing as a kid, as well as discovering a very trans-coded vocaloid song a few weeks ago that i've become completely obsessed with ever since.

finally caught up with the #NaPo poems i really wanted to write! i might write a few more if i'm suddenly hit by inspiration, but thirteen poems in total that include poems about all of my irl friends feels really good to me.

the five newest additions from the last twenty-four hours are j., f., s., k/b., and j/s.

now i just need to figure out if i want to send the poems individually or just. send the entire thread and let my friends find their specific poems.

(each letter actually stands for the first letter of their irl or online name, so they should be able to figure out which one is theirs.)

really need to catch up on writing #NaPo poems this weekend >> if i don't do the full thirty, i want to at least write enough that i can send poems to all of my irl friends <3

(so i think that's five people??? maybe six??? i have one online friend i really want to write a poem for, since i like to think we're pretty close and his friendship means a LOT to me)

finally back with a new #NaPo poem! this one is dedicated to a friend i'm calling a., who's always been amazing at making me feel seen.

(especially when it comes to gender things, which can always feel like a daunting conversation topic.)

i was sitting at an open mic today with a good majority of my friends from campus, and i was suddenly hit with this feeling of love for all of them, and just this appreciation for the individual friendships i have with each and every one of them.

i also realized i really haven't been all that good at expressing that love, so i decided that i finally had a new #NaPo theme i can actually write for.

or, at least, an updated version of my old one. :)

Did a bit of a redraft of my April 9th #NaPo poem so i decided to share

everything looks so alive outside right now. everything looked so barren before, but now there's color everywhere and it's amazing. it really feels like spring came all at once.

MaybeAndrew wrote:Time to read some poetry under a blooming flower tree to prepare #napo


the book starts with the Prologue to Canterbury tales which is written in Middle English so this is hard

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Happy poetry month!
After a little less than a year, I completed this poetry book, which I started poetry month last year, and said I would read by the end of the month.
Despite taking longer than I thought it would, it was an amazing experience, covering three hundred years of English poetry, beginning in the 1400s with Chaucer, and ending in the 1700s with Gray. It was an amazing way to learn about history, humanity, and the beauty of the English language. My favorites by far were the folk ballads and folk songs that were in there, and have introduced me to a whole new genre of music. (songs written before the birth of my great grandparents XD) all in all would suggest reading some historic poetry. Really good stuff, challenging, but in a way that has really helped me grow.

desperately need to write more poems for #NaPo but i'm very head empty with the current theme so i think i need to like...veer away from talking about literal dead boys and get metaphorical. but i also need some time to reflect about the topics i do want to talk on, since my brain has very much been edTPA, evolution, and ecology for the last few weeks.

what would a #NaPo thread on dead boys (gender neutral) be without a poem on the dylan taylor/chatterbox?

feel kind of meh on this #NaPo poem about j.mandrake nathaniel from the bartimaeus sequence, but i am very much obsessed with this starting line for it.

when you were five,
your parents sold you.