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April 10, 2018

Hurried – NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 10

By Kat Myrman

I’ve read the same melodic line
for the fourth time and regretfully,
I may need to read once it again
sadly, I can’t comprehend
what I’m reading…not a single word
I know it sounds absurd…a simple
break from the madness is all I ask
from the clanging cacophony,
no end in sight, I’ll make some tea
and watch it steep and sip and breathe
and close my eyes and think of times
when deadlines didn’t loom so closely
disturb my sleep, my life, but mostly
this very moment I’ll take a stand
take back my life, talk to the hand
I’m reading, slowly, sipping tea,
regretfully for the fifth time now
I may need to read it once again.

~kat

For NaPoWriMo 2018 Day Ten Prompt: write a poem of simultaneity – in which multiple things are happening at once. This is my life. Can I get a do-over?

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April 9, 2018

Consumed – NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 9

By Kat Myrman

night swelling blackness
moonless, milky spray muted
settling stillness
but for the hissing flicker
of a single wick consumed

~kat

A Tanka for NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 9. Prompt: write a poem in which something big and something small come together.

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April 8, 2018

nocturnal – NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 8

By Kat Myrman

of things that go bump
on moonless nights, the veil
pulled back, dimensions
blurred, the tiptoe of specters,
it could be my cats, roaming

there, there now, of course,
a lucid explanation…
but, i don’t have cats

~kat

A bit of whimsy in the form of a Tanka/Senryu for the Day 8 NaPoWriMo 2018 Challenge. Prompt: write a poem in which mysterious and magical things occur. Your poem could take the form of a spell, for example, or simply describe an event that can’t be understood literally.

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April 6, 2018

thinking out loud – NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 6

By Kat Myrman

when
is
a
poem
not
a
poem?
does it need to
rhyme
every time?

or must a poem, at the very least, contain iambic feet, syllabic certainty and stanzas
to
be
a
poem?

What about CAPITALS and pun,c;t!u-a….t.i.o.n?
do
they
matter
after all
if
the words
don’t stir
the soul?

while i may not know what makes a proper, perfect poem, i do know what makes me cringe to write or read…
to pen a poem that tells a tale, or pricks the heart, or makes one think is what i strive for…why i bleed.

~kat

NaPoWriMo2018 Day 6 presented us with the challenge to “write a poem that stretches your comfort zone with line breaks”.  My poem for today pushes my aesthetic buttons in several ways. If the goal of the challenge was to make me cringe as I plunked one word lines on the screen and dared to suggest that my minimalistic approach is poetry…then this exercise was a complete success. I do hope it does not pain you to read it.  😉

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April 5, 2018

A Creation Glyph – NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 5

By Kat Myrman
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Egyptian Hieroglyphs from Wikipedia

Shepherds,
lowly goatherds,
chiseled legends in stone
‘twas a story of all creatures
and how they came to be; the worms, the trees,
birds of the air; droppings of seed
that took root in the ground
under the stars
blooming
and of
belly crawlers
worms, sprouting arms and legs,
rising from the sea, from fishes
to land dwellers living in harmony;
so too the dawning of humankind,
born of water and dust,
heaven and hell,
no peace
because
humans forgot
that they came from the earth,
from the seed and the worm, from birds
and the fishes; forgetting the music,
the song of creation fading
to scarcely a whisper
time and again,
chaos

~kat

I took today’s NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 5 suggestion and added my own twist. My photo inspiration is a hieroglyphic etching, and my poem is a creative translation using a series of lines and reverse lines in the syllable form of 2-4-6-8-10-8-6-4-2.

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