Tag Archives: NaPoWriMo

Poem from Snippets from Baa Baa Black Belt

Posted on April 21, 2015 by colonialist

Hey – I have to rush.  Five minutes to lights-out! The NaPoWriMo Day 21  challenge is to take snippets out of a page of something to make a poem.  I grabbed a random page of my Baa Baa Black Belt fantasy, and … Continue reading →

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Really Awful Chaos Afloat

Posted on April 12, 2015 by colonialist

(Click on appropriate section of sidebar on right for translations, writings, compositions, awards and special series.) For the latest Daily Post Photo Challenge on the theme of ‘Afloat’, I have two different offerings: I was tickled a remarkably bright shade of pink … Continue reading →

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Really Awful Day 1 – 8 Themes for NaPoWriMo

Posted on April 8, 2015 by colonialist

(Click on appropriate section of sidebar on right for translations, writings, compositions, awards and special series.) Day 1 (What something is not) It isn’t like an article, or press report, or tale, And isn’t something where most people trying it … Continue reading →

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Parting is such really awful sorrow; rather a permanent wave.

Posted on April 30, 2014 by colonialist

©(Translate; Vertaal; Vertalen; Traduire; Übersetzung: μετάφραση: Tradução: Перевод; Traducción: )———-> (Click on Sidebar items on right for translations, to play Colonialist compositions, or to visit his writings etc.) And, fittingly, the last NaPoWriMo prompt calls for a goodbye poem. I … Continue reading →

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Following Instructions Really Awfully

Posted on April 29, 2014 by colonialist

(Translate; Vertaal; Vertalen; Traduire; Übersetzung: μετάφραση: Tradução: Перевод; Traducción: )———-> (Click on Sidebar items on right for translations, to play Colonialist compositions, or to visit his writings etc.) Following the following the following (sorry, I got stuck) twenty simple instructions is … Continue reading →

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Mac-attack and A News Report is Really Awful Poetry

Posted on April 28, 2014 by colonialist

(Translate; Vertaal; Vertalen; Traduire; Übersetzung: μετάφραση: Tradução: Перевод; Traducción: )———-> (Click on Sidebar items on right for translations, to play Colonialist compositions, or to visit his writings etc.) A News Report is Really Awful Poetry The NaPoWriMo theme today Is … Continue reading →

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118 Really Awful Words Tell a Picture

Posted on April 27, 2014 by colonialist

(Translate; Vertaal; Vertalen; Traduire; Übersetzung: μετάφραση: Tradução: Перевод; Traducción: )———-> (Click on Sidebar items on right for translations, to play Colonialist compositions, or to visit his writings etc.) This time the NaPoWriMo prompt calls for a poem written from a … Continue reading →

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Curt, Really Awfully

Posted on April 26, 2014 by colonialist

(Translate; Vertaal; Vertalen; Traduire; Übersetzung: μετάφραση: Tradução: Перевод; Traducción: )———-> (Click on Sidebar items on right for translations, to play Colonialist compositions, or to visit his writings etc.) NaPoWriMo, with increasing sadism, prompts the invention of a curtal (meaning cropped) … Continue reading →

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Not a Punny Rhyming Poem, but Really Awful

Posted on April 25, 2014 by colonialist

(Translate; Vertaal; Vertalen; Traduire; Übersetzung: μετάφραση: Tradução: Перевод; Traducción: )———-> (Click on Sidebar items on right for translations, to play Colonialist compositions, or to visit his writings etc.) NaPoWriMo says ‘…for our (optional) prompt. Anaphora is a literary term for … Continue reading →

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Bricklaying Really Awful

Posted on April 24, 2014 by colonialist

(Translate; Vertaal; Vertalen; Traduire; Übersetzung: μετάφραση: Tradução: Перевод; Traducción: )———-> (Click on Sidebar items on right for translations, to play Colonialist compositions, or to visit his writings etc.) The NaPoWriMo prompt: ‘Today, I challenge you to … write a poem … Continue reading →

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