dylanbragg, 19 days ago to poetry

Riddle-Poem:

I wear no wizard’s pointy hat
But keep a cauldron and a cat
And cook up spells that don’t pan out.
Though poor and ugly, I’ve no doubt
That with the right ingredients
My endless toil and great expense
Will win me fortune, fame and gold…
They’re tasty too (or so I’m told).

Who am I?

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egb, 1 month ago to poetry

Today's National Poetry Month prompt was to write a postcard-style "wish you were here" poem, so I wrote a letter to a friend who died last August.

https://elizabethburnam.com/2024/04/07/parking-in-the-city/

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egb, 1 month ago to poetry

Today’s prompt was to write a poem after “The Blessing of the Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog.”

This one was hard!

https://elizabethburnam.com/2024/04/05/to-be-loved-by-betty-boop-emily-dickinson-and-the-grim-reaper/

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egb, 1 month ago to poetry

Today's NaPoWriMo prompt was to choose some language/ideas from the book "The Strangest Things in the World" and write about it.

I was inspired by the section "mammal prototypes of the mermaid." 🧜‍♀️

This is a bit of a longer one, but it really captured my imagination! https://elizabethburnam.com/2024/04/04/the-inventors-journal-several-early-prototypes-of-the-mermaid/

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egb, 1 month ago to poetry

Mercury’s in retrograde & I’m thinking about my careless past. Did not follow the official NaPoWriMo prompt today. See y’all tomorrow!

http://elizabethburnam.com/2024/04/02/retrograde/

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egb, 1 month ago to poetry

I was talking to someone recently about how I think and communicate, and they said I seem like a “kinesthetic learner,” so I wanted to write a poem that’s (mostly) pure feeling.

Off-prompt for today. Happy #NaPoWriMo day 1!

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egb, 1 month ago to poetry

The early bird NaPoWriMo prompt was to pick a word from a list and write about it, so I chose "window" and wrote about windows past and present. 🐣🪟

Really happy with how this one turned out: https://elizabethburnam.com/2024/03/31/the-window/

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“Eyes are the windows to the soul,” the neighbor said. Ruthie’s mom, I think. Her one disciplinary hand full of cigarette. My sister snickered, bloodshot, skunk smell sunk into her skin and every strand of eyebrow hair. I'wrapped her secrets in a porcelain hug around my shoulders, and I was not afraid. Today, the world outside the window is blue as a jewel. A text from my sister’s oldest son: his favorite poem so far is "Dust of Snow" by Robert Frost. The way a crow / shook down on me / the dust of snow / from a hemlock tree. I hear the rattling, the key searching for the keyhole, a winking shadow in the porch light, and I am not afraid. Wide open, my heart, a door.

egb, 1 month ago to poetry

Is anyone participating in National Poetry Writing Month next week? (The write-30-poems-in-30-days challenge!)

I'd love to connect with you if so! This is my favorite time of year, and I'm excited to see everyone's poems :)

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