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Sat Mar 21, 2026 3:28 am

Meshugenah says... · Sat Mar 21, 2026 3:28 am

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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Wed Mar 25, 2026 3:56 am

Meshugenah says... · Wed Mar 25, 2026 3:56 am

Maybe I can shake the cobwebs off before April 1st. Maybe.

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Wed Apr 01, 2026 11:34 pm

Meshugenah says... · Wed Apr 01, 2026 11:34 pm

#1

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Thu Apr 02, 2026 2:50 pm

alliyah says... · Thu Apr 02, 2026 2:50 pm

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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.

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there is no season as achingly temporary as now

but i have promised to return

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Fri Apr 03, 2026 11:55 pm

Meshugenah says... · Fri Apr 03, 2026 11:55 pm

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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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Sat Apr 04, 2026 3:56 am

Meshugenah says... · Sat Apr 04, 2026 3:56 am

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

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Sat Apr 04, 2026 4:42 am

deleted48 says... · Sat Apr 04, 2026 4:42 am

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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!

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Sun Apr 05, 2026 3:31 am

Meshugenah says... · Sun Apr 05, 2026 3:31 am

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@cocteau <3

This is alliyah's fault.

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Sun Apr 05, 2026 4:43 am

Calamity says... · Sun Apr 05, 2026 4:43 am

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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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Sun Apr 05, 2026 9:38 pm

Meshugenah says... · Sun Apr 05, 2026 9:38 pm

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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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Mon Apr 06, 2026 3:09 am

Meshugenah says... · Mon Apr 06, 2026 3:09 am

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

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Mon Apr 06, 2026 11:07 pm

Meshugenah says... · Mon Apr 06, 2026 11:07 pm

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Mon Apr 06, 2026 11:47 pm

Avian says... · Mon Apr 06, 2026 11:47 pm

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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.

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Tue Apr 07, 2026 11:22 pm

Meshugenah says... · Tue Apr 07, 2026 11:22 pm

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Tue Apr 07, 2026 11:31 pm

herb says... · Tue Apr 07, 2026 11:31 pm

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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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