Let's Pretend it's April

[Tiger the Lion]

Coming November 1st

[busker]

I like the idea...it's been a long lockdown, and a write-of-fall type thing helps

[Tiger the Lion]

I like the idea...it's been a long lockdown, and a write-of-fall type thing helps

Great. Feel free to share any ideas or prompts here or by PM.

[busker]

Prompt #1: Write a humorous poem about global warming (black humour allowed)

[dukealien]

Prompt #1: Write a humorous poem about global warming (black humour allowed)

Prompt #2: Write a *genuinely* humorous poem about solving things with elections.

[CRNDLSM]

One from the perspective of an animal any animal

[CRNDLSM]

Something about electricity

[busker]

One from the perspective of an animal any animal

but if we can hump dead animals and antelopes
there’s no reason why a man and a man can’t elope

[CRNDLSM]

One from the perspective of an animal any animal

but if we can hump dead animals and antelopes
there’s no reason why a man and a man can’t elope

Just two best friends trying to save on taxes

[TranquillityBase]

1.  a poem about being physically lost (in the woods, in an IKEA store, etc.)

2.  a poem in an different form of English from modern English (your own invented dialect or taken from another source; I'm thinking in terms of the language Russell Hoban created for the novel Riddley Walker; or pseudo Elizabethan etc.)

[Tiger the Lion]

A philosophical note about prompts, if I might...

If a prompt asks you to write an 8 line poem about your pet and you end up with a 12 line poem about insects or a haiku about pumpkins, the prompt has still done its job. It's only mission is getting you to write. It's a rope, not a noose.

[Todd]

It's a rope, not a noose is one of the coolest and most correct things I've read today.

[Tiger the Lion]

It's a rope, not a noose is one of the coolest and most correct things I've read today.

Thanks Todd. I'll find a poem for it. 

[Tiger the Lion]

Just curious as to what kind of success members have had with writing 30 poems in 30 days? 
 (Some of you make it look easy. I won't name names.)

Do your poems improve over the course of a month, or worsen from fatigue?
Did you ever write something in 5 minutes flat for a NaPM prompt that you now consider one of your best?
Did you ever want to go back and delete that embarrassing poem from 2 nights ago? I know I did.

What are your thoughts and experiences?

[busker]

Just curious as to what kind of success members have had with writing 30 poems in 30 days? 
 (Some of you make it look easy. I won't name names.)

Do your poems improve over the course of a month, or worsen from fatigue?
Did you ever write something in 5 minutes flat for a NaPM prompt that you now consider one of your best?
Did you ever want to go back and delete that embarrassing poem from 2 nights ago? I know I did.

What are your thoughts and experiences?

I can spin out any old doggerel at the drop of a JB Stetson hat 
But I can’t write seriously and in earnest to a deadline 
True poetry just comes to you, doesn’t it? Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud and all that 

However, writing for a bit of fun is what napm is all about

[CRNDLSM]

Each time is different. The first time was a challenge, just anytime of day to force something out makes the brain tingle. One time I gave up halfway through I think I was busy and sad in real life. When I hosted it was real easy, everything was within a hour of the prompt.

That being said between maybe 200 spontaneous daily poems I've kept maybe 5? Or 10? Not even suggesting they were worth keeping, or something anyone else would keep.

10/10 will try again

[CRNDLSM]

How about a quatrain about the future

[RiverNotch]

How about a quatrain about the future

CRNDLSM? more like NSTRDMS xD

[Kerbonzo_beenz]

1.  a poem about being physically lost (in the woods, in an IKEA store, etc.)

2.  a poem in an different form of English from modern English (your own invented dialect or taken from another source; I'm thinking in terms of the language Russell Hoban created for the novel Riddley Walker; or pseudo Elizabethan etc.)

You got your wish. Made a lost forest tail by coincidence.

[busker]

How about a quatrain about the future

That’s a good idea
I’d add a variant: write a faux Nostradamus quatrain about a recent event as a basis for an existing or new conspiracy theory