NaPM 2016

[bedeep]

I'd say I'm pulling for you but I don't want to get in too deep.

[billy]

bedeep

[Achebe]

It's probably too late to be asking this question, but...

why exactly are we doing this?

[Todd]

It's probably too late to be asking this question, but...

why exactly are we doing this?

It's like a colonic. We do an annual poetic cleanse to clear the system out. Next month we deal with poems about suicide, it seems like a reasonable progression.

[milo]

Isn't this in the faq somewhere?

[Achebe]

Isn't this in the faq somewhere?

the faqs are actually (unless I'm looking at the wrong faqs):

I wasn't here for the beginning can I still participate?
I don't want to write a poem for every day, but I would like to participate in some of the topics, is this ok? 
I missed a day, can I go back and make it up? 
I am a newer writer will the quality of my writing be up to par? 
What is up with these topics? Can't I just write about flowers and birds? 
I read something I like, is it still ok to comment? 

@Todd - interesting POV

[Todd]

What is up with these topics? Can't I just write about flowers and birds? 

Wait, we could have just been writing about flowers and birds the entire time?

$%&%$*&^%

[milo]

Isn't this in the faq somewhere?

the faqs are actually (unless I'm looking at the wrong faqs):

I wasn't here for the beginning can I still participate?
I don't want to write a poem for every day, but I would like to participate in some of the topics, is this ok? 
I missed a day, can I go back and make it up? 
I am a newer writer will the quality of my writing be up to par? 
What is up with these topics? Can't I just write about flowers and birds? 
I read something I like, is it still ok to comment? 

@Todd - interesting POV

Look right above the questions.

[bedeep]

Look right above the questions.

That is actually good advice for so many situations.

[Todd]

Two more to go. The Kenyan poets have already crossed the finish line in world record time. Bleeding, limping and without metaphor we continue to a line that is only a line--that can only ever be a line at this point.

[Achebe]

And in the world of politics, the Keynesian poets have finished lyin'.
That's a non sequitur I admit.

[bedeep]

A point is a line in time
that has simply landed in this moment
or that one.

Did you have a point?
No, I think that was a line.

[Tracy Mitchell]

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The Kenyan poets have already crossed the finish line in world record time.

That's too funny.

[RiverNotch]

I've hit a wall! Now I've got a backlog of, what, five days? Or maybe six, since the last one I wrote feels a bit too, er, cop-outy --- but oh boy, do I've a concussion.

[Leanne]

Last day, last day, oooh, it's so exciting!

What a great month this has been, with so many amazing poems that hopefully people will return to and workshop until they're even more amazing... maybe even amazing enough to buy me a new superlative...

I still haven't been able to bring myself to write a list poem, but that's the only one I've missed and I'm pretty damned pleased about that. I would have lost interest half way through if it hadn't been for the other contributors setting the bar so high that I'd have felt like a bit of a twat if I hadn't tried to meet it.

Massive thanks to milo for making sure everything has gone according to, and better than, plan.

[milo]

I am glad it has worked out. I wish I had been available for more of it but, sadly I have had some pretty serious situations. I did almost bow out entirely this year but was convinced the to carry on and it has been worth it. The reader in me has been delighted to see so many new poems and, quite frankly, and the flush of originality that always brings me back to poetry. Thanks everyone that managed to participate and especially to the stalwarts that managed to churn out such great variety daily. Bravo poets. Celebrate, poetry lovers.

[ellajam]

I've wimped out, seems work and family just have no respect for April and ccontinue to lob bombs into my usually pretty calm life. I can barely read, forget write, but I am so grateful for the fine poems I've been reading this month. I bow before you stalwarts who continue to pull poems out of what might seem a dry well, but somehow is not.

Thank you milo, this has enriched us, writers and readers.

[Achebe]

I've hit a wall! Now I've got a backlog of, what, five days? Or maybe six, since the last one I wrote feels a bit too, er, cop-outy --- but oh boy, do I've a concussion.

you wrote some pretty long, involved ones again and again. That's a big drain on the brain, Wayne (rhyming licence)

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Last day, last day, oooh, it's so exciting!

What a great month this has been, with so many amazing poems that hopefully people will return to and workshop until they're even more amazing... maybe even amazing enough to buy me a new superlative...

I still haven't been able to bring myself to write a list poem, but that's the only one I've missed and I'm pretty damned pleased about that.  I would have lost interest half way through if it hadn't been for the other contributors setting the bar so high that I'd have felt like a bit of a twat if I hadn't tried to meet it.  

Massive thanks to milo for making sure everything has gone according to, and better than, plan.

Your Jesus Dali poem was splendid.. That, milo's wolf and dog, and a few other pieces from the illuminati. 

I wrote one poem that I kinda  liked, will workshop that.

[billy]

i've still a couple to do but great jobby guys xx

[milo]