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2021 ᑎᗩᑭO ᗷᗩᗪGES & ᑕOᑎTESTS


Check out the information below to learn how you can earn different badges this April during NaPo for participating in National Poetry Writing Month! If you complete one of the challenges please make a post below with the link to your thread (&/or poems & comments) and the name of the badge you're claiming.

WRITING POEMS

High Five Complete and log just 5 poems during the month of April and you'll get a high-five as well as this limited edition NaPo badge for your hard work! Please leave a link to your thread below if you've earned this badge.

Hearty Halfway If you complete at least 15 poems over April and post them in your NaPo thread, you've won the "Hearty Half-Way" badge for your dedication! Note that you can't get this one and the completion one - just one or the other. Leave a link to your thread below if you've earned this badge.

NaPo Completion Write 30 poems in April and post in your NaPo thread. You don't need to post all the links to the poems here, the only stipulation is there must be at least 30 in your thread by the end of the month. Poems can be posted anytime during April and can be any length or form to complete this challenge

Poem A Day This is the traditional NaPo challenge! Write at least 1 poem every day of April with the correct time-stamps in your NaPo thread. (There is some leniency if you get a day or two off, but the majority should be done on the day in question and there should be at least 30 total at the end - feel free to message one of the Poetry Mods if you are unsure.)

COMMUNITY

Garden Challenge NaPo is mostly an individual effort, but the great thing about YWS is that we get to pursue these efforts as a community! This challenge is about encouraging your fellow writers! So spread some joy and encouragement by completing this challenge. To claim the Garden Challenge Badge comment 30 times in the NaPo threads (other than your own), you must comment in at least 5 different threads and collect the links below. Each comment should be unique and be written in the month of April.

Starter Seeds Challenge Go for 10 unique comments in NaPo threads during NaPo this year and earn the "Starter Seeds" badge! Make sure that your comments aren't all in the same person's thread, and collect the comment links to claim the badge.

Jammified You've got it in the jar! For this challenge, collect the jam jars (ie. Poetry Jam Links) from at least 5 different Poetry Jams or Workshops during the month of April! To count for "attendance" you need to be in the jam for at least 20 minutes and contribute to the jam discussion. Provide the links or the date you attended below to make sure you can claim your badge! Also if the times of the jams that the moderators run don't work for your schedule, feel free to run your own and get others on the site to attend! If you count a jam that you're running for this contest, it should be a write-in link posted in the Jam Club for at least 30 minutes. And consider subscribing to the Poetry Jam Club so that you don't miss any of the jams available!

CONTESTS

April Madness Finalist If you make it to the last round of April Madness you will receive your own, exclusive, highly-sought-after, limited edition April Madness badge!

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Note: If you don't post below, you may not be awarded your badge. Poetry must be written in April. Try to claim your badges by May 6.

If you use roman numerals to number your poetry, you especially need to make sure to comment in this thread if you make it to 30, since there are some moderators alliyah who are illiterate in roman numerals
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Frequently Asked Questions


Do collaborative poems count towards the Poem Count? Unfortunately, no! But if you are in a pad to collaborate be sure to save that link for the Poetry Jams badge!

What is meant by "unique comments" for the Garden Challenge? You can not just copy and paste "good job, good luck" a dozen times and then collect your badge. Comments ought to have been written uniquely for that thread but can be any length. Remember that the purpose is to share support and encouragement, this probably isn't the time to leave a novel-length critique of punctuation and capitalization methods.

What is a Poetry Jam? A poetry jam is a write-in where anyone who wants to jumps into a Writers Feed Pad, Rise-up pad, or other shared writing pad link and instead of writing just anything, you're encouraged to write poems - often guided by a poetry prompt or two. Sometimes they're planned in advance and advertised around the site, sometimes they're spontaneous. Anyone can host one by sharing a WFP link over in the Poetry Jam Club. More information about hosting and participating here.

How do I claim my badges? Start a log below where you collect the links to your NaPo comments or leave a link to your NaPo thread for the Poem-Count. Be sure to clarify in your post which badge you are claiming / have completed the requirements for.

What if I am going for the "Poem Completion" badge but I have an emergency and miss posting one day? Things happen and time zones are weird! The majority of the poems need to be posted with close to the same time stamp (if you post at 1 am every day, I'm just going to assume you're not in my time zone, that's okay!). You can accidentally miss up to two days, but the end total needs to be 30.

How long do my poems need to be to count? I wrote a two word poem last year! ;) Poems can be any length, they just need to be properly numbered.

Any other questions? Feel free to ask!
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I guess I'll be the first to start these off! :)

Starter Seeds/Garden Challenge - 2/10
Spoiler! :
1 Yoshikrab - Day Three
2 queenshadowgem - Day Thirteen
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Jammified - 1/5
Spoiler! :


High Five/Hearty Halfway/NaPo Completion/Poem A Day - 5/15

Spoiler! :
1 babysitting - 4/1/21 4:49pm
2 regifting used items from the perspective of the receiver: a haiku - 4/3/21 5:07pm
3 outlining - 4/3/21 5:08pm
4 school halls
5 ants
---High Five Completed---
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---Hearty Halfway Completed---
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NaPo Completion/Poem A Day Completed!
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echoes in the margins

Starter Seeds/Garden Challenge
Spoiler! :
1. Lim's thread
2. Spearmint's thread
3. kattee’s thread
4. lim's thread - 2
5. niteowl's thread
6. wolfe's thread
7. rida's thread
8. Ches's thread
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Starter Seeds Completed
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Garden completed!


Jammified - Completed!
Spoiler! :
1. april 1
2. april 2
3. april 3
4. april 6
5. april 7
Jam Completed!


High Five/Hearty Halfway/NaPo Completion/Poem A Day
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NaPo Completion + Poem A Day
talking to the faces in my floorboards
Spoiler! :




Starter Seeds/Garden Challenge
Spoiler! :

  • 1. comment for Elfboy (1)
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    Started Seeds completed!
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    Garden Challenge completed!
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NaPo thread: these scattered lines might make a map

Starter Seeds + Garden Challenge

Spoiler! :


Jammified



High Five, Hearty Halfway, NaPo Completion, + Poem A Day

Spoiler! :
When you're faced with something you don't understand, I think the most natural thing but also least interesting thing you can be is afraid.

-- Hank Green

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I still have to update the comments badge thing <3
okay so I didn't edit the comments badge because there's not really a point since it comes out to be less than 10 xD

Starter Seeds & Garden Challenge
Spoiler! :
1. science can be a prompt for poems
2. on castles and cupboards
3. these scattered lines might make a map
4. why i cant love like i want to
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Starter Seeds Completed

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[Garden completed


Jammified


High Five, Hearty Halfway, NaPo Completion, & Poem A Day
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Thread Link: years lost to locusts
Contests Won: garden club, jammified, completion

Poem Count: 30 ~ Comment Count: 37



Completion - 30
Spoiler! :

(you don't have to save the individ links of all your poems for the badge if they are labeled in your actual thread and claimed here, I just like to keep the links here too)
1. quarantine | sun stealer 4.1.21
2. quarantine | letters to our mothers 4.2.21 [+1918]
3. time 4.3.21
4. Maundy Thursday - you should love 4.5.21
5. Good Friday - it is finished 4.5.21
6. Holy Saturday 4.5.21
7. Easter Sunday 4.6.21 [+ April 2020 + AD 33]
8. sea sick 4.7.21
9. space to think 4.8.21
10. sweet dreams 4.9.21
11. sleepless again 4.9.21
12. homebound 4.10.21
13. water sources 4.10.21
14. quiet hello quiet goodbye 4.13.21 [+Summer 2020]
15 mayflies (definition) 4.13.21
16. crickets (definition) 4.13.21
17. desert walkers 4.17.21
18. echoes and familiar faces 4.17.21
19. cloud thoughts 4.21.21
20. feeling stuck 4.21.21
21. doesn't he think he's clever 4.21.21
22. migrations 4.21.21
23. monday morning mantra 4.25.21
24. what is she thinking? 4.25.21
25. cicada litany 4.25.21
(collab) star chasing & falling dreams 4.26.21
26. tendencies of serotinous trees 4.26.21
27. unfinished thread endings 4.1.21
28. photo album hunting | cinquain 4.29.21
29. these april threads become hope 4.29.21
30. everything i carry home 4.30.21



Garden Challenge - 37
Spoiler! :


Jammified - 5
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Garden Challenge
Spoiler! :
1 (4/2) nature, life, and the past
2 (4/2) 24/7 Sonnets Babey
3 (4/3) the best feeling: euphoria (moved to here)
4 (4/3) Maple's Poetree House
5 (4/8) an exploration of hope;
6 (4/8) Alpha and Beth
7 (4/8) a journal of deep breaths
8 (4/10) these scattered lines might make a map
9 (4/19) when i begged the moon to love me back
10 (4/20) Of beautiful birds in circling flight
Starter Seeds Completed
11 (oopsies didn't get to these, but there's always next year, right? ^^')
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Garden completed!


Jammified


NaPo Completion
Spoiler! :
1 (4/1) beginning
2 (4/2) mushroom mansion
3 (4/2) the attic
4 (4/3) celery
5 (4/4) ramblings
High Five Completed
6 (4/4) scattered
7 (4/5) insignificant
8 (4/6) @_@
9 (4/7) melody
10 (4/8) doubts
11 (4/8) mmm
12 (4/9) ahh
13 (4/10) thirteen
14 (4/10) an exercise in rhyming
15 (4/11) ...
Hearty Halfway Completed
16 (4/11) titles should come at the end.
17 (4/12) gravity
18 (4/13) looking up
19 (4/14) ? !
20 (4/15) XP
21 (4/16) the boot
22 (4/17) evening drives
23 (4/18) totally didn't almost forget about napo today
24 (4/20) actually missed napo yesterday, oops ^^'
25 (4/20) smile
26 (4/21) candy wrapper
27 (4/22) dear mr. orange
28 (4/23) lazy
29 (4/24) :|
30 (4/25) birdy
NaPo Completed!
31 (4/27) ._.
32 (4/27) procrastination
33 (4/28) kinda dark, i guess?
34 (4/28) lighter
35 (4/29) hm
36 (4/30) the end
Poem a Day Completed!
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Garden Challenge


Jammified
Spoiler! :
1 here
2 here
3 here
4 here
5 here
Jam Completed!


NaPo Completion
Spoiler! :
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Completion
Spoiler! :

the plague years
4/27 - i'm at like 32 total, if i count the side stuff i posted.


Poem-A-Day
Spoiler! :


Jammified
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Hearty Halfway!


Starter Seeds Challenge


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"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
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NaPo thread: everything that falls down eventually rises

Completion



Garden Challenge

Spoiler! :
1 Comment for rida
2 Comment for alliyah
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Starter Seeds Completed!
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Garden completed!


Jammified

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Starter Seeds Challenge / Garden Challenge - UNCOMPLETED
Spoiler! :
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Garden Challenge Completed!


Jammified - UNCOMPLETED
Spoiler! :
1. an unofficial sorta thing
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Jammified Completed!


High Five / Hearty Halfway - COMPLETED
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fatherfig says...



My thread: whos to say fish cant be accountants

napo completion
Spoiler! :

1. my heart was a rock
2. we should all use fish mirrors
3. unspoken judgements
4. golden-green
5. circling
6. how dare



starter seeds
Spoiler! :

1. I left @Elfboy a comment here
2. I left @Hkumar a comment here


jammified
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