Monthly Archives: April 2019

Immy-agination in Art

Posted on April 22, 2019 by colonialist

GloPoWriMo Day 22 Prompt is as follows: Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that engages with another art form – it might be about a friend of yours who paints or sculpts, your high school struggles … Continue reading →

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Drought and Desolation

Posted on April 22, 2019 by colonialist

Power to shack comes from spring Limit reached what pump can bring, Glass shows no rain, Salt in park kills every tree again, Nothing on wings in sight Insect spray on ridge: more blight.   © April 2019 Colonialist

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Utter Noun Scents

Posted on April 21, 2019 by colonialist

GloPoWriMo 2019 Day 21 Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that incorporates wild, surreal images. Try to play around with writing that doesn’t make formal sense, but which engages all the senses and involves dream-logic. Where … Continue reading →

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Screened

Posted on April 20, 2019 by colonialist

GloPoWriMo 2019 Day 20 Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that “talks.” Try to write a poem grounded in language as it is spoken – not necessarily the grand, dramatic speech of a monologue or play, … Continue reading →

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Good Buys Fare Well; Abecedarian Rhyme with Little Reason.

Posted on April 19, 2019 by colonialist

As good buys at our local flea market last weekend before the goodbyes that followed, I found the loot pictured above. The most expensive item was the keyboard stand for my second keyboard and towards my tutor on keyboards currently … Continue reading →

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Elegy for an Unidentified Companion

Posted on April 18, 2019 by colonialist

GloPoWriMo Day 18 Prompt: today: I’d like to challenge you to write an elegy of your own, one in which the abstraction of sadness is communicated not through abstract words, but physical detail. Out of the very corner of my … Continue reading →

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The Dreadit Edit

Posted on April 18, 2019 by colonialist

GloPoWriMo Day 17 Prompt is as follows: Today, I’d like you to challenge you to write a poem that presents a scene from an unusual point of view: I am a book that has been done And dusted; I would … Continue reading →

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Wild Words and Feral Tamed.

Posted on April 16, 2019 by colonialist

For GloPoWriMo Day 16 I am ignoring the prompt, and instead am taking  Wordle 399 as the rhyme of the day. Brenda has done the usual fiendish job of steering one inexorably in a certain direction with the choice of words, … Continue reading →

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Talk of Writing Wrongs

Posted on April 15, 2019 by colonialist

GloMoWriMo Day 15 Prompt is as follows: ‘Today, I’d like to challenge you to write your own dramatic monologue.’ I write; but when I write then should I yearn For all to like what I set out? And if they … Continue reading →

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The Caws of Understanding Crows on You

Posted on April 14, 2019 by colonialist

GloMoWriMo Day 14 Prompt is as follows: Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that incorporates homophones, homographs, and homonyms, or otherwise makes productive use of English’s ridiculously complex spelling rules and opportunities for mis-hearings and mis-readings. … Continue reading →

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