NaPoWriMo Wrap-Up

There you have it: one month of writing a poem every single day. I plan to do this again next year! It was fun.

Let's recap what I wrote...

Day 1: 5 haiku about weather
Day 2: a villanelle called "The Secret"
Day 3: an English sonnet about Weeping Angels
Day 4: free-form in rhyming couplets called "When It's Closed"
Day 5: rhyming couplets about my Little Visitor, Clyde
Day 6: a villanelle called "Askew"
Day 7: 3 haiku for Amy's birthday
Day 8: free-form tie-in with my Camp NaNoWriMo novel, Comorbidity
Day 9: rhyming couplets about library instruction
Day 10: 5 "double-definition" senryu
Day 11: 5 haiku about the Aquarium
Day 12: rhyming couplets about paradoxes
Day 13: rhyming quatrains about Gimli (my cat, not the character)
Day 14: free-form / rhyming couplets & tercets about writer's block
Day 15: 3 haiku about pollen
Day 16: a translation poem from the Vietnamese poem "April"
Day 17: a limerick about the fickle weather
Day 18: free-form about sleep deprivation
Day 19: a redaction poem from the Wikipedia article for "brown"
Day 20: free-form / experiment in sight rhyme about wind
Day 21: a villanelle about The Silence
Day 22: 5 haiku about earth science
Day 23: Italian sonnet about talkers in the library
Day 24: senryu of celebration
Day 25: villanelle about a villain ("the villain-elle")
Day 26: acrostic of rhyming couplets about onomatopoeia
Day 27: 3 "double-definition" senryu
Day 28: poem about writing poems (lines rhyme with 1, 2, 3...)
Day 29: erasure poem from the Wikipedia article about storms
Day 30: 5 senryu about the library

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.