Day Eleven on APRIL 11, 2024
Happy Thursday, all, and welcome back for Day 11 of Na/GloPoWriMo.
Our featured participant for the day is The Cynical Optimist, where you’ll find a comic poem
based in multiple animal-involving headlines in response to Day 10’s “news that stays news”
prompt.
Today’s resource is grieftolight, an Instagram account where you will find a wealth of poems.
Finally, our optional prompt for the day honors the “ones” in the number 11. Today, we’d like to
challenge you to write either a monostich, which is a one-line poem, or a poem made up of
one-liner style jokes/sentiments. Need inspiration? Take a look at Joe Brainard’s poem
“30 One-Liners” or Frank O’Hara’s “Lines for the Fortune Cookies.”
Happy writing!
poets will run wild
with an inkling until
they drain their hunger
for perfection and soon
arrive at the cliff
that reveals something still
unvoiced and the words
are well-behaved: they call
it poem, and the
voyage placates their souls–
inspiration: outstanding, encouraging
© selma
One sentence:
(11-lined poem with the final line having 11 syllables consisting of 11-lettered words)
For Day Eleven of NaPoWriMo
Update on the new anthology:
For Day 10 of the book blog tour of Poetry Treasures 4: In Touch with Nature we faced a technical
inconvenience. But by the time I awoke, it had been resolved. Please forgive if you dropped by and
found the link unresponsive. I will post YESTERDAY’S here one more time. It’s a lovely interview:
Thank you.
Also, I tried to remember something I learned on Instagram while promoting
In The Shadow of Rainbows,
last year,
but I “obviously” forgot
what I’d learned…
I goofed there with the links
The links are:
ebook: https://books2read.com/u/mlM5YA
paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Poetry-Treasures-4-Touch-Nature/dp/B0CZLXQF57
The schedule is as follows:
Mon. April 8 – Writing to be Read – Reading byD.L. Finn: http://writingtoberead.com/?p=33460
Tues. April 9 – Yesterday and Today: Merril’s Historical Musings – Reading by Andrew McDowell: https://merrildsmith.org/2024/04/09/poetry-treasure-4-in-touch-with-nature-blog-tour-day-2/
Wed. April 10 – Book Places – Interview w/ Emily Gmitter & Reading by Selma Martin: https://bookplaces.blog/poetry-treasures-4-in-touch-with-nature-word-crafters-book-blog-tour/
Thurs. April 11 – d.l. finn author – Guest post by Patricia Furstenberg: https://wp.me/p88dPL-ocU
Fri. April 12 – Colleen Chesebro, Author & Poet – Guest post & Reading by Merril D. Smith: https://tankatuesday.com/2024/04/12/wordcrafter-poetry-treasures-4-in-touch-with-nature-book-blog-tour/
Sat. April 13 – Carla Reads – Review/ Reading by Robbie Cheadle: https://wp.me/p6H3KI-dBq
Thanks for the support, dear friends.
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Oh I love this poem Selma. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
So pleased you do Sadje. Happy Eid yesterday. 🕯️ 💐
Thank you dear friend
I’m digging the idea of running with an inkling! Thank you, Selma.
Hehe. A short one. Not as long or as beautiful as yours but that’s what came. So fun. Xo
Your poetry is always inspiring.
I’m grateful for your readership. Always uplifting. Thanks so much. xoxo
I love your poems so much Selma!
so blessed you do. Thanks, always.
You’re welcome!
Oh, Selma, thank you for this gem of a poem. Your well-behaved imagery has captured the writer’s journey with beauty and clarity.
Thanks for thinking it so, dear Suzette. I appreciate your readership and encouragement to my work. Always. Blessings.
You are very welcome Selma. Have a good one.
You have pulled some fine imagery back from that cliff…(K)
yes, teetering on the edge of a precipice, and trying to describe what I see… Thanks, K. Be well.
I love your poem. Beautiful written words.
Blessings always… xoxo
“the voyage placates their souls” – I felt that ❤️