Happy April everyone! Once again I have agreed to the challenge of writing a poem a day for the month of April. There are a number of prompt sites on the internet that offer a prompt every day for the duration of the challenge. It's the only way I'd get through it - it saves me from spending half the day dithering over what I'm going to write about. My site of choice is Readwritepoem, which I think offers great prompts.
The only problem is that we in New Zealand are a day ahead of much of the rest of the world. Last year, it was nearly bedtime before the prompts appeared. And I just can't bring myself to say that I am writing "a poem a day for the period April 2nd to May 1st." Somehow, it just doesn't seem to induce the same motivation in me. So for my first effort I pulled out a file where I have saved previous Wordles pulled from the Readwritepoem site, and used several of the words in my poem:
indigo, rust, ocean, congregation, punctuate, numinous
(All NaPoWriMo poems have now been removed for possible editing and submissions. Contact me if you would like to read them.)
Poetry, quilting and random comments on life, the universe and everything
Hi Catherine. 'The sea sings an old hymn' resonates well with me. I look forward to reading your daily poems. Regards, Greg.
ReplyDeleteI've decided to give it a go too, even though I haven't been writing much the last few months. I didn't get home until nearly 8.00 tonight and the prompt was up when I got there, so I got shuffling and posted the result. It's very unedited but I figure it's a start!
ReplyDeleteI love the imagery in this poem, and I love the word numinous. Happy April Fool!
I love the lines
ReplyDelete"I believe in daybreak,
even if I sleep right through it."
Beautiful!
This was very warm and witty Catherine, very upbeat -- and I've slept through a few daybreaks in my time...
ReplyDelete...rob ;)
Image & Verse
I love water-themed poems. My favorite line is "A congregation of sea birds/ punctuate the waves."
ReplyDelete"Call me gullible"...
ReplyDeleteAnother member of the congregation of sea birds? :-)
hope is everything to hold onto to and let go... that is a beautiful poem.... day 1 hurrah!!
ReplyDeleteVery good :) I always fall for April Fool's gags.
ReplyDeleteLovely poem!
ReplyDeletePamela