NaPoWriMo: Day 30

I did it! I made it to the end of April! To wrap this month up, I have some more senryu, inspired by the library. (When you work seven days a week, you think about work a lot.)

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Procrastination:
I can't help you with your work
Or your citations.

Yes, you have to pay
for printing. Paper doesn't
grow on trees. No wait...

It takes two days for
books to arrive from other
campuses. Sorry.

Good luck on finals.
You have a grade of sixteen?
Out of a hundred?!?

I'll see you again
next semester. You'll forget
everything you learned.

NaPoWriMo: Day 29

Today I wrote an erasure poem! (It's like a redacted poem, but instead of leaving the text in tact and striking through the leftover words, you just pull out the words you want, in order, and get rid of everything else.)

This one came from the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article about storms, because today we're going to get lots of isolated thunderstorms, if the forecast is to be trusted.

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Any disturbed body's surface
may be heavy, strong.
However,
they can allow
activities
which would not be possible
otherwise.

NaPoWriMo: Day 28

I bring you: poem about writing poems where each line rhymes with a number, in order. (First rhymes with "one," second rhymes with "two," etc.)

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Writing poems is super fun
You know you want to, too.
You can write poems like me!
I promise it isn't a bore.

If you're busy as a bee in a hive
And don't have time as the clock ticks
You'll be in poem-writing heaven:
You don't have to pine and wait;
Just write silly poems like mine!

NaPoWriMo: Day 27

We're getting so close to the end! Here are some more of those double-definition senryu like the ones I did on Day 10.

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Pronunciation:
Saying it right; condemning:
Denunciation.

Tranquility is
Peacefulness; keeping steady
Is stability.

Hippopotamus:
Large mammal; thin peninsula:
That is an isthmus.

NaPoWriMo: Day 26

Acrostic! Yes. And it rhymes. And it's self-aware.

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Out of the dark, I hear a creak.
'Neath the sink, "drip drop" goes the leak.
On the mantle the clock says tick and tock.
Many birds outside screech, caw, and squawk.
A cannon far away makes a mighty boom;
The cars driving by go whoosh and zoom.
Outside, a trolley says clatter and clang.
Pulling the trigger makes the gun go bang!
Onomatopoeia like "boing" and "pow"
Evoke certain feelings like awe from "wow."
In French, a frog says "gowap"
And I feel like this poem was a "flop."

NaPoWriMo: Day 25

It's time for another villanelle! It's about a villain. It's a villain-elle. Because I like puns.

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You think I'm the bad guy.
You chase and zap and fight me,
But I just don't know why.

You think it's so cut-and-dry:
I must be evil (is it the goatee?)
You think I'm the bad guy.

You like to make me cry,
(Although I don't let you see)
But I just don't know why.

You're clearly not my ally,
Though I'd like it if you would be, but
You think I'm the bad guy.

When I see you, I just sigh.
You attack like a killer bee,
But I just don't know why.

You want me to suffer - or die -
All I can do is offer my plea.
You think I'm the bad guy,
But I just don't know why.

NaPoWriMo: Day 24

Birk was accepted to the master's program he applied to! Let's have a celebratory haiku:

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Acceptance is sweet!

Now you'll study sciences

Biomedical.