Written for24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 31, 4/23/24, Part I, Grain Rain(April 19 – May 4) Koku 穀雨 APRIL 23, 2024TANKATUESDAY CHALLENGES SHARING: Golden week is the perennial holiday…
Day Twenty-Four on APRIL 24, 2024 As of today, there’s just one week to go in our annual challenge. We hope you are feeling cool, calm, andconfident in your writing. And…
when black as a miner’s lung, cursed is the nightmoonless and moody with a forced sibilant hisssoundly on her side laid his wife, his day-knight,just as the stir of a…
Day Twenty-Two on APRIL 22, 2024 Welcome back for the penultimate Monday of this year’s Na/GloPoWriMo. Our featured participant today is Flutterby’s NaPoWriMo, which brings us a purple-themed poem inresponse to Day…
Day Twenty-One on APRIL 21, 2024 Happy twenty-first day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, everybody. Today’s featured participant is Catrin Mari, who brings us a neatly rhymed appreciation of a little-knownhistorical figure, Dr. William Price of…
Day Twenty on APRIL 20, 2024 Hello, everyone. Today we’re 2/3 of the way through Na/GloPoWriMo. We hopethat by the end of the day, you have 20 shiny poems under your…
Day Nineteen on APRIL 19, 2024 Happy Friday, everyone! Our featured participant for the day is Gloria D. Gonsalves, who brings us not one, but two, poems inresponse to Day 18’s “other…
Day Eighteen on APRIL 18, 2024 Welcome back, all, for the 18th day of our 30-day challenge. Today’s featured participant is Cutting Hail, who brings us a dreamy, gentle poem in response toDay…
Day Seventeen on APRIL 17, 2024 Happy Wednesday, everyone, and here’s hoping that poetry helps you get over the “hump” of the week. Our featured participant today is Karen Morris, who brings…
Day Sixteen on APRIL 16, 2024 Welcome to the back half of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2024, all!Our featured participant today is Sarah Zimam, who brings us a riddle in response to Day 15’s stamp-based prompt.…
Day Fifteen on APRIL 15, 2024 Keep those poems coming, folks! We’re halfway through the challenge as of today. Today, our featured participant is Karen Kendrick, whose anaphoristic poem for Day 14…
Day Thirteen on APRIL 13, 2024 - play with rhyme. Start by creating a “word bank” of ten simple words. 🍒 ma chérie loved cherries 🍒 (... and plums) I sense…