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  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: tatterdemalion dreamcoats

    Another poem! Will the miracles never end? :) Anyways, not sure about the title, but otherwise I'm very happy with this. #9 there is no pot of gold at the ...

    Apr 16, 2019
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: April Madness 2019

    This made me write a poem today! Woohoo! there is no pot of gold at the end waves thunder, crashing white onto quiet rocks as the sea splinters into spraying ...

    Apr 16, 2019
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: tatterdemalion dreamcoats

    I wrote this late at night sometime last week, and I don't know what it means so I don't know how to edit it right now. But I kind of ...

    Apr 13, 2019
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: tatterdemalion dreamcoats

    An attempt at a syllable and rhyme format with mostly assonant end-rhyme. I'm not sure if I like it or not, but it was a neat challenge. #7 coracle, or ...

    Apr 13, 2019
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: tatterdemalion dreamcoats

    I think I got a bit carried away, this was supposed to be a short poem... #6 hung-up sneakers I've always wondered about the shoes. The obvious question is how ...

    Apr 13, 2019
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: tatterdemalion dreamcoats

    Thanks, Cadi! Imagery might be my favourite part of writing poetry. #5 learning curves clumsy fingers clumsy tongue i'm used to sharp clean origami creases and spinning notes out into ...

    Apr 13, 2019
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: tatterdemalion dreamcoats

    #4 april showers mist pulls out the distance trees fading away in onionskin layers a shadow puppet forest early morning overcast, street lights still glowing like washed-out eyes, cloudy grey ...

    Apr 11, 2019
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: tatterdemalion dreamcoats

    Ah thanks for the words niteowl and fraey! I was intending to do quantity over quality, but then the perfectionist took hold. So I'm going to try to keep up ...

    Apr 10, 2019
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: April Madness 2019

    I'll submit this for now, but might change it if I finish the one I'm working on in time. city nights are paradoxes of quiet loudness and bright darkness shadows ...

    Apr 9, 2019
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: love and complementary colors

    These are so beautiful, alliyah! I absolutely love ungrown soil | planting poetry , the line "metaphors that extend off the paper and stretch-back around but never quite / resolve ...

    Apr 6, 2019
  • Knights of the Green Room Re: Knights of the Green Room Great Hall

    Knight Paperforest pushed open the doors to the Great Hall, wiping the ink off her training knives. She crossed the floor and pulled out her log . "A sword would ...

    Apr 6, 2019
  • Knights of the Green Room Re: Paperforest's Log

    For a Shield! 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

    Apr 6, 2019
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: tatterdemalion dreamcoats

    Thanks, alliyah! I hadn't thought of it in the sense of that dizzy lightheadedness, but it definitely works - I love seeing what people take away from what I write, ...

    Apr 3, 2019
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: tatterdemalion dreamcoats

    (My main goal is to do 30 poems this month, but just for the record, in the very slim chance that I write a poem every day, I did start ...

    Apr 2, 2019
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: saturn is home, and all is well

    This is such a lovely beginning, niteowl! I love how it acknowledges these bitter truths and yet still ends with such beautiful hope. And I really like the phrase "honey ...

    Apr 2, 2019


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