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why does the grass grow?



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Mon Mar 25, 2019 4:20 pm
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ellasnotebook says...



I'm gonna do my best hnnnng

I'm not as active on here anymore but I loved napo last year so much that I'm determined to do it this year

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Mon Apr 01, 2019 7:17 pm
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1.

I know why the grass grows green with its
tantalizing emerald and its shimmering sheen and
the way it turns navy beneath the night sky;
the grass blushes green but we never ask why.
  





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Mon Apr 01, 2019 7:24 pm
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I like that your NaPo title is already being put into play here ^^ The sort-of inner rhyme of "green/sheen" is cool to balance out "sky/why" and I like the comparing colors! Nice first poem : ))
name: key/string/perks
pronouns: she/her/hers and they/them/theirs


novel: the clocktower (camp nano apr 24)
poetry: the beauty of the untold (napo 2024)
  





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Wed Apr 03, 2019 1:00 am
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2.

one day when I'm older
I will need no secret garden
there will be no secret garden
and the walls will tumble down

one day when I'm wiser
I will need no hidden haven
I will leave the hidden haven
and the walls there that surround

one day when it does come
I will seek out other Edens
the whole world will be my Eden
because my garden is the ground
  





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Wed Apr 03, 2019 1:34 am
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The repetition is really interesting! There’s a nice beat with the subtle rhyming of the last lines, and I like this idea of making the world your own. ^^ This is a cool idea!
name: key/string/perks
pronouns: she/her/hers and they/them/theirs


novel: the clocktower (camp nano apr 24)
poetry: the beauty of the untold (napo 2024)
  





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Mon Apr 08, 2019 4:18 pm
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Here's a new poem! I've been really behind as I've been on a choir trip for the last four days, so I'll try to catch up a little.

3.

once upon december
I, a hidden ember
was tossed into the waters for
they thought I had no flame

once upon a July
I, set fire to the sky
and all the people down below
marveled at my name
  





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Mon Apr 08, 2019 4:23 pm
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I'm a really musical person, so I kind of imagined this to a beat in my head, so apologies if it sounds strange!

4.

oh beautiful sky
oh round gray stones
I wanna go where the bluebells grow

I've thought of it often and
I've thought of it fierce but
the flowers out there dry all my tears

used to think I was a city girl
now I'm all grown up
and the clear blue lake is my
sippy cup
I will drink it up
I cannot get enough
where the skyscrapers are the ground is all dried up

oh beautiful sky
oh borrowed home
I wanna go where the bluebells grow
  





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Mon Apr 08, 2019 5:05 pm
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Hey! Welcome back ^^ I hope you had fun on your trip. 3 & 4 are really nice here - I like the rhyming and the beat in especially the later one is cool! There's some neat imagery going on in both of these <333 Very nice return indeed!
name: key/string/perks
pronouns: she/her/hers and they/them/theirs


novel: the clocktower (camp nano apr 24)
poetry: the beauty of the untold (napo 2024)
  





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Wed Apr 10, 2019 2:04 pm
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5.

hey sister,
remember the moon
remember the rain
hey, remember the lilies
remember the pain
but we are the warriors of the fire and the grain
and the world will be whole again.

hey brother,
remember the sun
remember the stars
hey, remember the trees
remember the marsh
but we are the warriors of the light and the dark
and the world will be our walking park,
and the world will be whole again.
  





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Wed Apr 10, 2019 2:12 pm
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Spoiler! :
wow, an actual title!!! go me!!!


6. blue

oh blue aching in my heart
the pain I feel for paper is my curse, my earth
to heft up on my back, slick with sweat and ocean and
blue
lips cracking, gasping
to drink up the hue.
  





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Wed Apr 10, 2019 6:40 pm
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7. kind of a dark place

kind of,
but the light still shatters through the trees
kind of will not shadow me.
  





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I can tell you like rhyming and repetition ;; ) I think it works well in shorter chunks, as shown here, and I like the extended metaphors!
name: key/string/perks
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novel: the clocktower (camp nano apr 24)
poetry: the beauty of the untold (napo 2024)
  





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Sun Apr 14, 2019 6:53 pm
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8.

I guess I believe in the loch ness monster;
that'd be kind of cool I guess
and I guess I believe in magic and stuff
I don't know why you've asked me but
I guess I believe in everything
in the sparks in the sky and
the songs in the trees
I guess I couldn't live if I
didn't think the rocks could speak.
  





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Sun Apr 14, 2019 10:05 pm
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keystrings says...



This is a cute, short little poem! I think what could work here would be to build on your connection to believing in myths and fantastical things, or even doing a follow-up poem to this with a bit more figurative message. Nicely done as ever!
name: key/string/perks
pronouns: she/her/hers and they/them/theirs


novel: the clocktower (camp nano apr 24)
poetry: the beauty of the untold (napo 2024)
  





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Mon Apr 15, 2019 4:17 pm
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9.

hi ho-o
sings the song inside my skull
in late hours of the night
I feel the lake girl's tugging pull

hi hay-ay
I forgot her yesterday
when she drowned I felt a fright
now I've forgotten her old name

woa, oh my soul
I am not a monster
woa, oh my empty soul
I'm just the wolf that haunts her

and her hair was like a June breeze
and her voice the buzzing of the honeybees

hi-hi hi
my face is turning to the sky
in the dark I found a light
don't question why
it's just the way the die
fall down.
  








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