Poem created in response to Robert Lee Brewer’s 2013 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 15, 15 Nov 2013.
Topic: what (blank)
(form: nonet)
Poem created in response to Robert Lee Brewer’s 2013 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 15, 15 Nov 2013.
Topic: what (blank)
(form: shadorma)
It’s well-known:
you can’t always get
what you want.
When you get
what you need, though, you wonder
“How do I use it?”
It’s well-known:
you can’t always get
what you want.
When you get
what you need, though, you wonder
“What the Hell is this???”
Poem created in response to Robert Lee Brewer’s 2013 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 9, 9 Nov 2013.
Topic: the other (blank)
(form: fibonacci)
The Other Shoe
Poem created in response to Robert Lee Brewer’s 2013 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 13, 13 Nov 2013.
Topic: self-help poem
(form: cinquain)
¡Salud!
Self-help.
Do-it-yourself.
People love their projects,
but miss the most important one:
their health.
Poem created in response to Robert Lee Brewer’s 2013 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 4, 4 Nov 2013.
Topic: (blank) sheet
(form: shadorma)
Sheet After Sheet
Poem created in response to Robert Lee Brewer’s 2013 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 3, 3 Nov 2013.
Topic: “the last time I was here”
the last
time I was here
I was in much the same
position and racking my brain
to write
the last time I was
here I was
also there, yet not
Poem created in response to Robert Lee Brewer’s 2013 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 2, 2 Nov 2013.
Topic: news of the day
(form: lune)
In the News
Poem created in response to Robert Lee Brewer’s 2013 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 1, 1 Nov 2013.
Topic: appearing/appearance poem
(form: shadorma)
Inner Strength
Well, I missed a few days on the Poetic Asides Poem-A-Day (PAD) Chapbook Challenge, even though my total poem count exceeded more than thirty. One I intentionally didn’t do. It was a new form to me and a fairly long one at that. A couple I just couldn’t figure what to write and one I just never got back to doing. The main goal of a month of creativity was accomplished, though.
For the record, here’s the description from the Day 18 prompt for the glosa, the form I’d never tried before:
Write a glosa. This involves an epigram of 4 consecutive lines from a favorite poet that the challenge participant believes they can write successfully to. Then, write a poem consisting of four 10-line stanzas where the final line of each stanza is a line from the epigram, in order. Within each stanza, lines 6, 9 and 10 must rhyme.
Yep, just too long and complicated for me to spend time working right now. Maybe I’ll give it a shot later…probably not.
I’ll not likely be submitting a chapbook, either. I don’t think many of these approach my best work and I’m not going to take the time to rewrite them to improve them.
Here’s the breakdown of my poems from this PAD:
Cinquains – 8
Fibonaccis – 6
Lunes – 5
Shadormas – 5
Tankas – 1
Triolets – 1
Free verse/form – 5
Overall, I’d give myself a C+ for this challenge. I had a couple poems that I thought turned out pretty well and completed the majority of the daily prompts, but am not doing the chapbook. Looking forward to the next Poem-A-Day Challenge in April 2013.
Poem created in response to Robert Lee Brewer’s 2012 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 30, 30 Nov 2012.
Topic: milk poem
Topic suggested by: Violet Nesdoly
(form: tanka)
Making the Cut
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