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An orange splits open
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write about a particular fruit – your choice.) [To be honest, I wasn't looking forward to this still life...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 21, 2020
- 1 min
Together In This
When the sandhill cranes struggle up into their mighty V, the gust and flap of wings becomes a unison call—honk, honk honk! I am here!...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 19, 2020
- 2 min
I Decided to Read the News Today
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem based on a “walking archive.” What’s that? Well, it’s when you go on a walk and gather up...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 18, 2020
- 1 min
Fo(u)r Haiku
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write an ode to life’s small pleasures. Perhaps it’s the first sip of your morning coffee. Or finding some...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 17, 2020
- 1 min
Jumping Rope
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem that features forgotten technology.)[I have a lot of students who know what those things are and...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 16, 2020
- 1 min
Seeing the World in Blues, Purples, and Greens
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem of over-the-top compliments.)[I was so not feeling this prompt. It mentions the Cole Porter song...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 15, 2020
- 1 min
Spring Along a River
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem inspired by your favorite kind of music.)[So, two things: 1) a friend asked me the other day...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 14, 2020
- 4 min
What I See
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem that deals with the poems, poets, and other people who inspired you to write poems.) [This was...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 13, 2020
- 1 min
Again Tomorrow
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a non-apology for the things you’ve stolen.) I suppose I’m sorry I took them from your soft, pink lips,...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 12, 2020
- 2 min
They are useful...
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a triolet.) [Ugh, my least favorite—rhyming. I actually tried, for what it is worth, but just couldn't...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 11, 2020
- 1 min
Narcissus Reminds
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem in which one or more flowers take on specific meanings.) Before the daisy or rudbeckia announce...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 10, 2020
- 1 min
The Hay(na)ku, for what it's worth...
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: This is another one from the archives, first suggested to us by long-time Na/GloPoWriMo participant Vince...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 9, 2020
- 1 min
How to Cook One
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a “concrete” poem – a poem in which the lines and words are organized to take a shape that reflects in...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 8, 2020
- 2 min
After All
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: to peruse the work of one or more of these twitter bots, and use a line or two, or a phrase or even a word...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 7, 2020
- 1 min
April 7, 2020
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: [write] a poem based on a news article.)[No.] On the south side of my property is a red flag dangling from a...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 6, 2020
- 1 min
Ipse dixit
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write [an ekphrastic] poem from the point of view of one person/animal/thing from Hieronymous Bosch’s famous...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 5, 2020
- 1 min
I stagger
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: [write a poem following the] “Twenty Little Poetry Projects.” The challenge is to use/do all of the following...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 4, 2020
- 1 min
And In the Morning
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem based on an image from a dream. We don’t always remember our dreams, but images or ideas from...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 3, 2020
- 1 min
April 3, 2020
Sitting by the glass doors my back porch beyond sipping coffee and waiting for my whole wheat English muffins— that I made after watching...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 3, 2020
- 1 min
From coffee to dinner
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: Today’s prompt (optional, as always) asks you to make use of our resource for the day. First, make a list of...
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