My poemy brain is busy with the final day of CV2’s 2-Day Poem Contest, so all I’ve managed here is a micro/senryu sort of thing for the 30/30 prompt “second thought.”
Second Thoughts
I should know by now
that there’s much benefit
in waiting for them
Haiku
PAD 2022 – Day 14
Going super short today with the prompt “stray post-it.”
post-it life advice
revealed through a torn corner
‘Don’t forget to b’
PAD 2022 – Day 12
Yesterday’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt was about something big, so naturally today’s is about something small. I went with found tiny poems about tiny, sciency things.
Four Tiny Poems
1.
huge discovery
something smaller than a quark
inside everything
2.
infinitesimal
an incredibly long word
for something so wee
3.
computer of note
always runs on sun
4.
how many phonons
make up the colossal sound
of ‘yes, I love you’?
PAD 2021 – Day 26
I already wrote a moon poem earlier this month, but to hold true to the poetic stereotype, I have more to say about it. Today I used the 30/30 prompt “concentration moon” to come up with a few quick micros.
meditate
on the full face
of a super moon
but still come up
ordinary
***
pandemic thoughts
like phases of the moon
wax wan new repeat
***
when I lose
the day’s light
I try to remember
that it’s yet held
by the moon
PAD 2021 – Day 25
Today I am preoccupied with trying to complete the CV2 2-Day Poem Contest, so my daily poem is just a super shorty. I used the 30/30 prompt “dark water.”
lake at midnight so much remains hidden in it, in you
PAD 2021 – Day 16
Both short on time and inspiration today, but tried to work the 30/30 prompt “dystopic diagram” into a micro.
apocalypse sketch a large circle in the dirt we trace for answers
PAD 2021 – Day 12
A klutzy accident and unexpected trip to one of my most anxiety-inducing destinations today — the hospital ER — served as inspiration for today’s poems. I tried to incorporate the 30/30 prompt calling for an “anticipation” poem, and the League of Canadian Poets prompt asking for connected haiku.
hospital thoughts is the opposite of anticipation, anxiety? hum of the air vent its whirring does not drown out my pounding pulse nurse asks for pain scale but there is no number for stress we screen fevers not people, says the nurse bring purse to x-ray rolling stool worn at the edges like this nurse exam 1 tired woman says to daughter it will be ok
PAD 2020 – Day 23
Did two micropoems from two prompts today. Poetic Asides asked for a “Social _______ ” poem.
social butterfly
wings clipped by isolation
learns to zoom instead
NaPoWriMo challenged poets to write a poem about a particular letter of the alphabet, taking inspiration from the actual the shape of the letter.
A Beginning
A tip of a pencil
A top of a castle
A hat for a dunce
A tent for us
A ladder to somewhere
A letter to start
the alphabet, arithmetic, and the day we said always.
PAD 2020 – Day 14
A bit pressed for time today, which means I’ve gone with a compressed poem in my attempt to hit two prompts in one. I combined the NaPoWriMo challenge to write a poem that deals with the poems, poets, and other people who inspired you to write poems, with the Poetic Asides call for a form or anti-form poem. One of my favourite forms is the haiku or senryu, and of course that means appreciating the work of 17th-century haiku master Bashō. Since this is hardly a traditional haiku, maybe I have written an anti-form poem after all?
Bashō I am not
but I echo in honour
of his superb form
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PAD 2020 – Day 10
Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt called for a hay(na)ku, which is a three-line stanza, where the first line has one word, the second line has two words, and the third line has three words. I decided to chain several together into a longer hay(na)ku sonnet, like the one that poet Vince Gotera invented during 2012’s NaPoWriMo.
planning the day – a hay(na)ku sonnet
wanting
to wake
with less worry
hunting
good news
like Easter eggs
finding
big numbers
in brief headlines
baking
sweet buns
is some distraction
hoping spirits rise
like this dough
makes/me/so/digress 