April 22, Napowrimo 2026. Jaswinder Bolina’s poem “Mood Ring” imagines the speaker as both himself and an interior being. It’s quite silly . . . and not silly at the same time. A sort of “serious fun.” Today, we’re challenge to write our own poem in which the speaker is in dialogue with themselves. ThisContinue reading “Puppy Love”
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Jobsworth
April 3rd, and we are asked to write a poem in which a profession or vocation is described differently than it typically is considered to be. Our poem could feature a very relaxed brain surgeon, or a farmer that hates vegetables. Or maybe we have a poetical alter-ego of our own who runs against theContinue reading “Jobsworth”
The Panda next door
Today’s challenge is to write our own poem in which we recount a childhood memory. We should try to incorporate a sense of how that experience indicated to you, even then, something about the person you’d grow up to be. I thought I’d started this poem years back, but I could find no trace inContinue reading “The Panda next door”
Chippy Tea
Today we are to try our hand at writing our own poem in which something that normally unfolds in a set and well understood way — like a baseball game or dance recital – goes haywire but is described as if it is all very normal. I struggled with to keep strictly to the pathContinue reading “Chippy Tea”
Missives & Musings 