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Year 19.

2025 daylight haunting
2024 i lost 2010 somewhere between now and then
2023 deluge
2022 ghosts burning
2021 the plague years
2020 distance, distraction, dissociation
2019 permafrost
2018 twisted steel and broken spines
2017 Drought
2016 Earthquake Weather
2015 once more unto the breach
2014 Poe-Tree
2013 *gasp* Mesh Masticates Madness!
2012 Look! Mesh actually *does* write!
2011 Stardust - Bek's NaPo thread 2011
2010 ?
2009 I love like a phantom: Bek's NaPo thread 2009
2008 Bek's NaPoWriMo thread

Goals: 30 poems/poem a day, comment on at least 5 different threads, but hopefully more.
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Maybe I can shake the cobwebs off before April 1st. Maybe.

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#1

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Mesh! I am excited for your poetry this month! When I saw passover landed on napo day one this year I thought of your passover poetry and was hoping we would get some! (Happy Passover by the way!) <3 Looking forward to the soup that comes out of April - and also your pre-napo poem ... WHAT IS THE WEATHER THIS SPRING?! We've got snow in the mid-west on the forecast? like... NO.
you should know i am a time traveler &
there is no season as achingly temporary as now
but i have promised to return




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alliyah <3

Here's yesterday's; today's will show up once I decide if this mess of words is a poem or a travesty.


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Ok, here's the mess I've been playing with.


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#1 has my heart - Chag Sameach, mesh!

I also really love the way you write about food / domesticity in these, especially how memory comes into play and how some parts of us are more lived in before we are able to truly "feel" them. really striking work so far. you are able to say so much with so little. I'm looking forward to following along!
In a shadow there is the blessing of a shadow.
— Kuki Shūzō




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@cocteau <3


This is alliyah's fault.

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Medieval Lit! Come here to find out who Chaucer plagiarized and translated - and why and how it worked in the late 1300s.

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Ah I love how rhythmic #5 is! Also love the clever use of "//" to quite literally simulate a pause. You have beautiful gems of poems even in mere single lines! Especially thinking about #3 — love how it is just vague enough to be relatable to the reader, whatever leftovers / comfort looks like to them is something that is so intimate and personal to everyone. Food makes for such a great topic in poetry. Excited to read more!
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I was going somewhere with this, but I have no idea where. I may come back eventually, or I may just call it early-morning nonsense and be done.


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I like this one better, so have this, too, today.


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my roots lie east
but all i've known is desert sun and rocky coasts
that see the the sun set, not rise

ahh, i think this is so clever. loving your thread so far, mesh! also special shoutout to #7---i love the last two lines.
it is always another hand that guides me.




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Medieval Lit! Come here to find out who Chaucer plagiarized and translated - and why and how it worked in the late 1300s.

I <3 Rydia




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i've been meaning to comment on your thread for a while now-- but as always, i have been loving this year's napo. ESPECIALLY #2 and #5, those two actually sparked something in me. but also like your entire food throughline kind of this year is really interesting to me & the connection that scent and taste have to memory. super cool.

keep writing !! you're doing amazing.
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It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats—the hobbit was fond of visitors. The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill —The Hill, as all the people for many miles round called it—and many little round doors opened out of it, first on one side and then on another.
— JRR Tolkien