behind the fridge there are hidden words

Roxanne · 2025-03-18T21:47:18Z

https://i.ibb.co/hxFyZmyC/napo25banner.png ~ going into napo with a few scattered poetry ideas that’ll be recovered from the canvas of floorboards sometime after the expiration date of products already emptied soon enough ~ Ephemeral & Everlasting| napoweek24 a poem in a pot | napo24 campnano July | cykas novmo24 | cykas This year, no specific goals, I'll just poem away ^^ I’m attempting a poetry version of some parts of my novel (or perhaps as a whole) and might write some poems that wander from that as well. Context: The names of the planets are nicknames for five characters of the novel. 'The Circle' is the name which they gave themselves and 'this place' is the town they grew up in. Please note that the novel is a thriller packed with drama so some of these poems may have some dark themes (TW's will be added where necessary).

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Mon Apr 21, 2025 7:51 pm

Roxanne says... · Mon Apr 21, 2025 7:51 pm

before the beginning of the end, there is only understanding.

“It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice cream sandwiches.”
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Tue Apr 22, 2025 9:21 pm

Roxanne says... · Tue Apr 22, 2025 9:21 pm

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Appreciate your thoughts on the poems, @Liminality! it’s always great to hear how others view it. ^^

Glad the repetition in “So.” stood out, and that sense of things left unsaid, it’s something I wanted to be captured in the poem. The other three poems reference an actual (card) game from my novel, where secrets are the currency-- and you’ve got it right, lots of innocent things got left behind because of it.

It conveys the idea of being trapped in a "game" in an unsettling way, like it's not just a cage but something more all-encompassing - and also "sweet" on the surface-level, so perhaps deceptive.

Ah, loved how you described it here. It fits the entire being of the game so well!

Thanks for dropping in! I enjoyed reading your take on them <3

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Tue Apr 22, 2025 9:42 pm

Roxanne says... · Tue Apr 22, 2025 9:42 pm

Present. 'what else did you hide?'

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Wed Apr 23, 2025 3:42 am

Meshugenah says... · Wed Apr 23, 2025 3:42 am

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#22! I love the brevity and the controlled rage that I'm getting out of so few words.

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Thu Apr 24, 2025 12:06 am

Roxanne says... · Thu Apr 24, 2025 12:06 am

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@Meshugenah, thank you!

And so the circle broke in half.

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Thu Apr 24, 2025 11:50 pm

Roxanne says... · Thu Apr 24, 2025 11:50 pm

Saturn

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Fri Apr 25, 2025 8:26 pm

Roxanne says... · Fri Apr 25, 2025 8:26 pm

Where some went after the rift, where all of them gathered once again.
(Murders in the city).

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Sat Apr 26, 2025 11:15 pm

Roxanne says... · Sat Apr 26, 2025 11:15 pm

The disappearance (of Jupiter's young brother).

“It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice cream sandwiches.”
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Sun Apr 27, 2025 8:42 pm

Roxanne says... · Sun Apr 27, 2025 8:42 pm

they met again at the sandwich shop.
Mars ordered a coke,
Saturn sipped on lemon water,
While Jupiter and Venus shared a chocolate fudge cake.
v & s - we ate together, like when we were just us.
Chatter of the other customers hummed around them,
spring breeze in the air.
Reverse. Cut. Go again.
j & m - maybe in the past. Perhaps in another universe,
v & j - Scratches of fire on our tongues, keeper of games.
for none of them spoke, none of them ate
It was just after the murders, before
The death of them.
bon appétit they should have said, instead they thought
s - I’ll see you in hell.

Five years after the disappearance & after the rift.

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Sun Apr 27, 2025 8:54 pm

Roxanne says... · Sun Apr 27, 2025 8:54 pm

"Can you keep a secret?"

“I can neither confirm nor deny
details of any locked past event
without the game’s approval.”

MI reference

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okay, this was just there for the taking XD

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Mon Apr 28, 2025 7:30 pm

Roxanne says... · Mon Apr 28, 2025 7:30 pm

Venus (& perhaps also Jupiter).
Their life after the last game.

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Wed Apr 30, 2025 8:30 pm

Roxanne says... · Wed Apr 30, 2025 8:30 pm

yesterday's poem

Handiwork

Unreliable narrator of the novel.
(One of the main characters)

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Wed Apr 30, 2025 8:37 pm

Roxanne says... · Wed Apr 30, 2025 8:37 pm

The remaining members of The Circle.

All poems are based on my novel 'can you keep a secret?'

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Thu May 01, 2025 3:31 am

Avian says... · Thu May 01, 2025 3:31 am

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31 poems this month! i've been following along with your thread this year, and i've fallen in love with your poetry style! great work this napo, roxanne :] can't wait to see what else you write this year

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