Category Archives: GloPoWriMo

Minimal List Cat Poems.

Posted on April 30, 2019 by colonialist

Day 30 and Final GloPoWriMo 2019 Prompt: I’d like you to try your hand at a minimalist poem. What’s that? Well, a poem that is quite short, and that doesn’t really try to tell a story, but to quickly and … Continue reading →

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Serious Seasonal Meditation

Posted on April 29, 2019 by colonialist

GloPoWriMo Day 29 Today, I’d like to challenge you to blend these concepts into your own work, by producing a poem that meditates, from a position of tranquillity, on an emotion you have felt powerfully. How sad, indeed, that when … Continue reading →

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Met a Poem About Poems

Posted on April 28, 2019 by colonialist

Day 28 GloPoWriMo 2019 . . . the concept of meta-poems – which are poems about poems! And now for our daily prompt. As you may have guessed, today I’d like to challenge you to try your hand at a … Continue reading →

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Sonnet or Moonnet.

Posted on April 27, 2019 by colonialist

For the 27th day of Na/GloPoWriMo, I’d like to challenge you to “remix” a Shakespearean sonnet. Shakespeare Sonnet XII When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I … Continue reading →

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Bawl, Ball, & Not Quite Able

Posted on April 26, 2019 by colonialist

Day 26 GloPoWriMo 2019 Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that uses repetition. You can repeat a word, or phrase. You can even repeat an image, perhaps slightly changing or enlarging it from stanza to stanza, … Continue reading →

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Seriously Sensible Flutters.

Posted on April 25, 2019 by colonialist

GloMoWriMo 2019 Day 25 ‘And now for today’s prompt I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that: Is specific to a season Uses imagery that relates to all five senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell) Includes a … Continue reading →

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When Comes the Whether

Posted on April 24, 2019 by colonialist

                      GloPoWriMo Day 24 (departure from prompt) Torrential rains the past weekend Went on and on and on, And those in Durban Easter spend Were better early gone. On Monday … Continue reading →

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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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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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