NaPoWriMo Chat, Comments, Commiseration

[Angeline]

Of coouuuuuuurse!

Maybe I knocked my head this morning too

Some of those titles were enough to make you want to knock your head!

 

[butters]

Some of those titles were enough to make you want to knock your head!

*clams up*

 

[Angeline]

*clams up*

:caning:

 

[Lyricalli]

On Cady Road

Picking up the Paint Crew

Inspired by the same set of words, so very different, and both so very, very good.

 

[29wordsforsnow]

...that I'll go first

incredibly romantic, and sad at the same time

 

[Lyricalli]

incredibly romantic, and sad at the same time

I love that about the song I quoted... it's romantic, it's melancholy, and it's truth. It makes me tear up every single time I hear it, and touches me for so many reasons.

 

[Lyricalli]

Congratulations and well done, Tzara! I've really enjoyed your writing, and so glad you came along for this ride with us along with doing your thread in the Hangout

 

[29wordsforsnow]

I do remember, even though from weeks ago, some people being afraid of ending with poor poetry reaching the magic thirty...

...it's nice to see that all of you prove yourself so completely wrong:

Moochie's Somewhere in the middle...a calm, lovely moment...with a very subtle dark thought lurking in the shadows that we look inside an open coffin, probably I'm only seeing things here.

Remec's race to catch up might end in outdoing us all...Found several mushrooms in the last days in the garden, so Mushroom had a familar taste, even if April seems to be out of season. Just 11 more to go! And still three, four?, days left.

Piscator caught something as well, colorful bits and bites.

Mmh, Cheers, Champagne?! The smiles and grins were sparkling here.

To quote Meat Loaf, Tzara, "You took the words right out of my mouth."

...Angie would, maybe, add a mother's eye-rolling, in agreement with Mrs. Namusoke, "Kids these days..."

 

[Lyricalli]

Every Poem 24/30
without a certain thought. Ideas took flight before they formed;
phrases were lost before finding the page and that is the death of it.
Still birth of verse and I mourn as if the poem were viable.

You captured this so well. I've lost countless thoughts, and there can be such frustration and sadness when they refuse to be found again.

Yet Another Poem about Sex
With congratulations and apologies to Daniel Kaluuya for the inspiration.

I read the headline and wondered what on earth he could have said. But, it was so simple, and true, and nothing more intimate than his existence proves. Hopefully, his mom recovers from the immediate embarrassment she needn't have felt. Loved the poem

Top Shelf Liquor 25/30

As soon as I saw your title, this song started playing in my head, so I wanted to share. Not sure what your musical tastes are, but I hope you enjoy it.

Top Shelf - Logan Vath

given home a dirt hole
heading through rank and file of mice and men
she will stand upright in the roaring crowd
to crown herself[/CENTER]

I hope you share a picture when she has her coronation

 

[champagne1982]

Regard My Body as Your Mirror

Tzed, this is so gently masculine that I want to turn my lover into a poet and fuck his brains out.

 

[Tzara]

Tzed, this is so gently masculine that I want to turn my lover into a poet and fuck his brains out.

He's welcome.



Tell him to wear a beret and sip cappuccino.

 

[29wordsforsnow]

Dinner Time

I
am
now
very
oddly
hungry

 

[Angeline]

Lev, two thumbs way up for your rockin and rollickin Eight Beat Mack! Love it!

 

[Lyricalli]

Big congrats to Snow and Todd for getting to their thirty!

 

[29wordsforsnow]

Big congrats to Snow and Todd for getting to their thirty!

Thanks, and good luck to all of you. Go, go, go! May your Muse be with you!

 

[29wordsforsnow]

...
azaleas in pinks and reds
...

Woohoo, more azalea poetry...

 

[Lyricalli]

Woohoo, more azalea poetry...

Azaleas are a big thing in my area of the world. We even have a festival for them.

 

[29wordsforsnow]

Azaleas are a big thing in my area of the world. We even have a festival for them.

Arrgh! I live in the wrong part of the world

 

[29wordsforsnow]

Winter Harbor Tritina

On Schoodic Mountain we are saturated in sky.
Rocky slopes creep by and by toward shore,
gulls soar and cry, boats bob on green and gray.

Our fingers froze that afternoon when gray
mist foretold season's end to cloud our sweeping sky
with storm. We picked our way down to the shore.

A foghorn blew, boats were returning to the shore,
clanging with bells and distant calls as rain fell gray
and changed our day, painted a pallor on the sky.

We ran laughing from sky and shore to shelter from the gray.

That's a lovely poetic painting of nature scenery. Had to read it three times, since after finding some ending/in-line rhymes (sky/by/cry; shore/soar), I started to look for more (gray/wax in the 2nd; gray/day in the 3rd). But I finally managed to see the colors, weather and landscape bits too. Well done.

 

[Angeline]

That's a lovely poetic painting of nature scenery. Had to read it three times, since after finding some ending/in-line rhymes (sky/by/cry; shore/soar), I started to look for more (gray/wax in the 2nd; gray/day in the 3rd). But I finally managed to see the colors, weather and landscape bits too. Well done.

Thank you. I'm glad you liked it and appreciate your feedback.

I did throw some internal rhymes in to make the poem less prose-ish, maybe a little more lyrical. I was mainly focused on the end line repetitions. If I edit it though I'll probably try to make those rhymes more consistent across the strophes.

 

[Lyricalli]

Yay, Champ! Lovely end to your thirty.


Amusing that the Ts and the Cs are done.

 

[29wordsforsnow]

Yay, Champ! Lovely end to your thirty.


Amusing that the Ts and the Cs are done.

Cheery congrats, Cs! LAMP is soon following in your footsteps.
And maybe some more from the rest of the team?

 

[Angeline]

Congrats to all you poets and thank you for a month of great reading, collegiality and inspiration. Our little oasis produces some wonderful poetry and I love how we all learn from one another. Whether you wrote a few poems or 30, you all made the challenge a big success. I especially love how many of us have shown form poetry some love. There was a time when it was anathema around here. We've come a long way from those dark ages thanks to encouragement from folks like Tzara and UnderYourSpell.

And thank you Calli for making this such a fun, comfortable lollapalooza. Now will someone pass the scotch or wine or not bogart that joint?

 

[Lyricalli]

And, that's a wrap!

Unless Tzara, Snow, or someone else wants to throw in some extra credit in these last hours.

Big congrats to Angie, Moochie, Piscator, and Lev for putting in their thirty!

And, Remec, you came close with that big push, and with some damn good poetry, towards the end. Was lovely having you with us.



Hopefully, I'll see you all in the next challenge I think I'm doing, as well as Piscator's month-long challenge in May. But, first.. a recovery break for a week or two.

Thank you all (Neo and Mer, too!) for taking part in this challenge. I never imagined so many would join in or how good, how fun, it would be. It's been a crazy month, and even when I struggled, you made me so glad I instigated this

 

[Piscator]

Angeline, Moochie, Levitatingbed, Piscator, Champ, Tzara(the overachiever said in jealousy more than anything else ) Snow, Lyricalli, Remec (although I don’t believe you’ll finish,
) mer and Neo it’s been a pleasure reading your work and writing with you!

I now need to put down the phone for a while, I’m tapped out!

Taking a deep breath or 30.

As tod said congrats to all who took part 0 now to go back and read them all.