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April 10, 2020

high tea – NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo Challenge Day 9

By Kat Myrman

high tea

whistling
silver teapot
scalding vapor squealing

steeping
jasmine leaves
raw honey sweetened

savory
sandwiches stacked
atop plated doilies

cucumber
creamed cheese
dill dappled dainties

sweet
biscuits, cookies
to the bourgeois

curled
tongues wagging,
who’s doing who

where?
when? how?
more, do tell

raise your pinky
sip, don’t slurp

~kat

For today’s NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo Challenge Prompt: the hay(na)ku (I decided to do the sonnet variation). Created by the poet Eileen Tabios and named by Vince, the hay(na)ku is a variant on the haiku. A hay(na)ku consists of a three-line stanza, where the first line has one word, the second line has two words, and the third line has three words. You can write just one, or chain several together into a longer poem. For example, you could write a hay(na)ku sonnet, like the one that Vince Gotera wrote back during NaPoWriMo 2012!

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April 9, 2020

Concrete Haiku – NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo Challenge Day 9

By Kat Myrman

haiku

tRees bend with the w i n d
barely GREEN leaf bUd-BURSTS cling
i should be brEAThINg

~kat

A Haiku for today’s NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo Challenge Day 9: inspired by Kaschock’s use of space to organize her poems, write a “concrete” poem – a poem in which the lines and words are organized to take a shape that reflects in some way the theme of the poem.

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April 8, 2020

NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo Challenge Day 8

By Kat Myrman

death,
distinct
with ripeness
lines corridors
casualties of war
denied last rites for now
sealed in polyethylene
an invisible foe looming,
poison wafting in the putrid air
where superheroes with stethoscopes fight
to save those stricken from drowning
the last acts of compassion
some will know in the end
in solitary…
darkness falls
on us
all

~kat

Another poem for our times today for NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo Challenge Day 8. I cannot adequately express the gratitude I feel for those on the front lines of the battle against the coronavirus. This week our country is facing the incomprehensible death tolls. To the heroes who give their all in doses of much needed compassion for the fallen. We owe you everything, our gratitude and our prayers!

The prompt: peruse the work of one or more of these twitter bots, and use a line or two, or a phrase or even a word that stands out to you, as the seed for your own poem.

I chose a bot from @percybotshelley “death, distinct with ripeness”. Today’s poem is a variation on a nonet.

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April 7, 2020

Vicar on Fire! – NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo Challenge Day 7

By Kat Myrman

Vicar on Fire!

A vicar from Plymouth, his parish, St. Budeaux
gave his virtual flock quite the spirited show
as he paused for a prayer
brushed a wick, unaware
then he ended his sermon with “stop, drop and roll”!

~kat

True Story: Coronavirus Vicar Accidentally Sets Arm on Fire While Recording His First Virtual Service. A Limerick seemed to be the perfect form for today’s NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo Challenge Day 7 prompt: Write a poem based on a news article.

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April 6, 2020

NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo Challenge Day 6

By Kat Myrman

give a heretic
paint and canvas, art becomes
psychotic, frenzied,
the stuff of nightmares, much like
a Bosch painting, demon play

~kat

A Tanka today for NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo Challenge Day 6. I just could not get into this painting with one disturbing image after the next. So I opted to write about the artist…he was certainly an odd fellow I think!

The challenge: Today’s (optional) prompt is ekphrastic in nature – but rather particular! Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem from the point of view of one person/animal/thing from Hieronymous Bosch’s famous (and famously bizarre) triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights. Whether you take the position of a twelve-legged clam, a narwhal with a cocktail olive speared on its horn, a man using an owl as a pool toy, or a backgammon board being carried through a crowd by a fish wearing a tambourine on its head, I hope that you find the experience deliriously amusing. And if the thought of speaking in the voice of a porcupine-as-painted-by-a-man-who-never-saw-one leaves you cold, perhaps you might write from the viewpoint of Bosch himself? Very little is known about him, so there’s plenty of room for invention, embroidery, and imagination.

The painting featured in the background above is the rather dark section of Hieronymous Bosch’s famous trytych, The Garden of Earthly Delights.

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