NaPoWriMo 2016

Days 11 - 30 Haiku Copout

*sigh* I know, I know You can slap my hands later for the cop out but in the meantime: HAIKU HAVEN, IGNITE!

11
Sheldon has a stalk-
er, what should he do? Invite
another over!

12
Too much pate anoth-
er Sheldon makes. How is it
possible? Osmosis.

13
End of disc one and
now I have to move, but I'm
so comfy. Need help.

14
A reaccurring
theme song, played so much, drives one
crazy to the touch.

15
Monkey lays on her
perch, drifting fast asleep. I
wonder: To be cat.

16
Hours upon ho-
urs I try, but little Ms.
Kitty dreams it by.

17
Try to live, live through
movement. No time to rest un-
less you are feline.

18
Yes I'm jealous, not
gonna lie. Hear animals
have it rough. I'll try.

19
How hard can it be?
Screw a light bulb, 1, 2, 3
Easy as-- OUCH! *burn*

20
Nearly over, near-
ly done. Sorely fought, hardly
won, but it's complete!

21
One last try, final
go; accomplished more than you'll
ever know: Private.

22
A, B, 1, 2, 3
red, blue, yellow, green, C, D
4, 5, 6; counting.

11
Sheldon has a stalk-
er, what should he do? Invite
another over!

12
Too much pate anoth-
er Sheldon makes. How is it
possible? Osmosis.

13
End of disc one and
now I have to move, but I'm
so comfy. Need help.

14
A reaccurring
theme song, played so much, drives one
crazy to the touch.

15
Monkey lays on her
perch, drifting fast asleep. I
wonder: To be cat.

16
Hours upon ho-
urs I try, but little Ms.
Kitty dreams it by.

17
Try to live, live through
movement. No time to rest un-
less you are feline.

18
Yes I'm jealous, not
gonna lie. Hear animals
have it rough. I'll try.

19
How hard can it be?
Screw a light bulb, 1, 2, 3
Easy as-- OUCH! *burn*

20
Nearly over, near-
ly done. Sorely fought, hardly
won, but it's complete!

21
One last try, final
go; accomplished more than you'll
ever know: Private.

23
Il y a plus de fleurs
Pour ma mère en mon cœur
Que dans tous les vergers
Plus de merles rieurs
Pour ma mère en mon cœur
Que dans le monde entier
Et bien plus de baisers
Pour ma mère en mon cœur
Qu’on ne pourrait en donner

Ill, why a plushed floors?
Poor my merry in moniker
Kay dance to less Virgos
Plus them are less riders
Pour my merry on my curr
Kay dance lemon den tear
It bein' plus the basers
Pour my merry on my curr
Cue on me poo ray in dawn err.

24
Mix the mortar, grind
the cement; stack the bricks. Mar-
ble build. Masonry.

25
I write, I sing, I
think, I fly; I rinse and re-
peat, I wonder "why".

26
Curtal Sonnet thanks
to Vince, Pied Beauty smooth
as Vermouth. Praise Him.

27
The wall separates
but the wind links us, fresh scent,
water here I come.

28
Baby died when stopped
breathing; mother, 29
arrested; neglect.

29
Twenty little pro-
jects but I only have sev-
enteen syllables.

30
Before I knew it
the month was over, o where
did the good poems go?!

301 words
60 lines

Prompts ▼

11-21. Random

22. I challenge you to write a poem for children. This could be in the style of a nursery rhyme, or take a cue from Edward Lear or Shel Silverstein. It could rhyme — or not. It could be short — or not.

23. the homophonic translation. Find a poem in a language you don’t know, and translate it into English based on the look of the words and their sounds. For example, here are three lines from a poem by the Serbian poet Vasko Popa: http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/collection/index/en


Posle radnog vremena
Radnici su umorni
Jedva cekaju da stignu u barake

I might translate this into English as

Post-grad eggnog, ramen noodles.
Nikki in the morning,
jacket just stuck with brakes.

24. write a poem that features walls, bricks, stones, arches, or the like. If that sounds a bit hard, remember that one of Robert Frost’s most famous poems was about a wall.

25. Anaphora is a literary term for the practice of repeating certain words or phrases at the beginning of multiple clauses or, in the case of a poem, multiple lines. The phrase “A time to,” as used in the third Chapter of Ecclesiastes, is a good example of anaphora.

26. As Vince explains, the curtal sonnet is shorter than the normal, fourteen line sonnet. Instead it has a first stanza of six lines, followed by a second stanza of four, and then closes with a half-line. The form was invented in the 1800s by Gerard Manley Hopkins, who used it in his famous poem “Pied Beauty”.

27. 4 picture prompts, I chose a steep road along a lake

28. Today I challenge you to find a news article, and to write a poem using (mostly, if not only) words from the article! You can repeat them, splice them, and rearrange them however you like. Although the vocabulary may be “just the facts,” your poem doesn’t have to be — it doesn’t even have to be about the subject of the news article itself. http://www.wltx.com/story/news/crime/2014/04/30/sheriff-baby-monitor-not-put-on-...

29. The prompt is called the “Twenty Little Poetry Projects,” and was originally developed by Jim Simmerman. And here are the twenty little projects themselves — the challenge is to use them all in one poem:

1. Begin the poem with a metaphor.
2. Say something specific but utterly preposterous.
3. Use at least one image for each of the five senses, either in succession or scattered randomly throughout the poem.
4. Use one example of synesthesia (mixing the senses).
5. Use the proper name of a person and the proper name of a place.
6. Contradict something you said earlier in the poem.
7. Change direction or digress from the last thing you said.
8. Use a word (slang?) you’ve never seen in a poem.
9. Use an example of false cause-effect logic.
10. Use a piece of talk you’ve actually heard (preferably in dialect and/or which you don’t understand).
11. Create a metaphor using the following construction: “The (adjective) (concrete noun) of (abstract noun) . . .”
12. Use an image in such a way as to reverse its usual associative qualities.
13. Make the persona or character in the poem do something he or she could not do in “real life.”
14. Refer to yourself by nickname and in the third person.
15. Write in the future tense, such that part of the poem seems to be a prediction.
16. Modify a noun with an unlikely adjective.
17. Make a declarative assertion that sounds convincing but that finally makes no sense.
18. Use a phrase from a language other than English.
19. Make a non-human object say or do something human (personification).
20. Close the poem with a vivid image that makes no statement, but that “echoes” an image from earlier in the poem.

30. Today, as befits the final poem of NaPoWriMo, I challenge you to write a poem of farewell. It doesn’t have to be goodbye forever — like I said, NaPoWriMo will be back again next year. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/browse/#occasion=7