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Also, I’ll be fresh off a trip to Japan and will hopefully be adopting a cat by the first few days of NaPo, so some very exciting times ahead!

Oh my goodness! How exciting! Would love to hear about your trip (and your cat if you got one!)

Strong start so far key - I definitely detect your sense of voice in these - and there is a sort of wise-scholarly / riddle-like feel behind the poems here.

Hope you have a wonderful April!

these poems have been a splendid read! i find the voice brooding, actively trying to teach or guide the reader while also sharing a personal experience. on the most recent poem "a fan", i found it interesting how the poem turned a limited, luck-based experience of fame into this commentary on a broad subject such as the internet.

the lines: "leave you wondering when the dream ends." & "you can only watch from the sidelines and hope that something will change"
really holds your place as someone who is a witness, but has no control over not just what ends but *also* begins, which fascinated me!

i also found it wonderful how number one and two both share this overall link about hope in an experience you have trouble figuring out (identity & fame/limitations). it's a lovely connection between two distinct poems that makes them vary, but also familiar. these have been great pieces!!

@alliyah - the Japan trip was super cool and invigorating since we went with other teachers, students and a few parents!! Also, I did in fact adopt a cat hahah have had her for a week! I feel like I’m always experimenting with how I want to convey tone and the message in my poems but I like there you can sense some kind of connection between them!

@lalalucky - I think I very much approached my NaPo thread this year as a teacher would, in wanting to inform an since while conveying a message so I’m glad that seemed apparent in both of these poems! My inspiration for “a fan” was mainly feeling like all of these crazy things had been happening on the internet in recent weeks but nothing fully was impacting me, which led to a weird feeling within me. Thank you so much!