NaPM 2016

[billy]

if you did, don't let on, i need all the praise i can get

[bedeep]

No no, you wrote the one about kicking your uncle in the balls, I liked that one too!

(was Keith who wrote about the Jack Russell)

[billy]

how could ella

you should be good til the end then, i'm posting people have been quoted as saying my poems are shite

Didn't you write the one with the farting Jack Russell? I loved that one!

I think that was keith but I love that even as a newb you associated the fart with billy, right on target.

[billy]

he may have been

it was my grand dad's balls

No no, you wrote the one about kicking your uncle in the balls, I liked that one too!

(was Keith who wrote about the Jack Russell)

[Achebe]

this thread is seeing more action than the actual one with the poems...

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this thread is seeing more action than the actual one with the poems...

but something I never thought about - what happens after NaPM? Is it to each his own? Because there's not much scope for critting or having your poems read when everyone's posting like mad

[bedeep]

he may have been  

it was my grand dad's balls

No no, you wrote the one about kicking your uncle in the balls, I liked that one too!

(was Keith who wrote about the Jack Russell)

*quitting now so I don't get further behind*

[QDeathstar]

this thread is seeing more action than the actual one with the poems...

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this thread is seeing more action than the actual one with the poems...

but something I never thought about - what happens after NaPM? Is it to each his own? Because there's not much scope for critting or having your poems read when everyone's posting like mad

I say that if you're shitting out 30 poems in 30 days, some ff them are going to be real stinkers. Go through and polish some of the floaters, and get critique on them????

[ellajam]

this thread is seeing more action than the actual one with the poems...

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this thread is seeing more action than the actual one with the poems...

but something I never thought about - what happens after NaPM? Is it to each his own? Because there's not much scope for critting or having your poems read when everyone's posting like mad

I say that if you're shitting out 30 poems in 30 days, some ff them are going to be real stinkers. Go through and polish some of the floaters, and get critique on them????

Exactly.

And the chatting here gives a respite from the work, I write pieces of the verse, leave it a bit so I can go back to it a little fresher, 10 minutes needs to be what would otherwise be a week.

And I wouldn't say this thread is getting more action, gotta weight it for quality and I'm loving reading the real threads.

[milo]

this thread is seeing more action than the actual one with the poems...

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this thread is seeing more action than the actual one with the poems...

but something I never thought about - what happens after NaPM? Is it to each his own? Because there's not much scope for critting or having your poems read when everyone's posting like mad

This is the fourth or fifth year of this so we could always just go back and look . . .

[QDeathstar]

maybe next year we can have a nudity and pleasure month instead.

[ellajam]

maybe next year we can have a nudity and pleasure month instead.

Pick a month and figure out some guidelines, I'm game.

[billy]

maybe at the end of the month we'll be inspired to write more poetry. maybe milo could do a daily post that we can use to do a poem for the workshop threads?

[Leanne]

And maybe milo will tell you to get stuffed and think of things for yourself for 11 months of the year

[billy]

god, i hope not; i'll never get anything done

[RiverNotch]

god, i hope not; i'll never get anything done

you know, we could try and base our prompts off of tv shows or something --

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I thought I could write a poem a day, but I'm descending into doggerel...
Oh well.

I'm pretty sure we all will get to shits eventually, just as much perhaps as them days we touch the stars -- I have a feeling one can write everyday, but even the Great Menses of the Earth had rhythms. The trick is, I guess, following up, editing (or discarding) the completely (or even until the barely) shitty ones once the Month of May arrives, and continuing to strive all yer life, so that the rhythms get smoother and smoother...

but now I wonder: is there Poetic Menopause?

[bedeep]

maybe at the end of the month we'll be inspired to write more poetry. maybe milo could do a daily post that we can use to do a poem for the workshop threads?

Does it have to be Milo?

What if different people posted prompts, say, weekly?

I'm not allowed to have an opinion yet, since I am too new,   and Milo's prompts are great, but, couldn't it be spread around some? If people want prompts, that is. Maybe by the end of the month nobody ever wants to see one again.

[billy]

everyone's allowed an opinion; but yes that could work

[milo]

I think we have a couple of those threads running around.

[milo]

For those who would love to see their ideas for a poem recast by the eclectic there is still room for more prompts even if you are spectating this year.

[just mercedes]

maybe next year we can have a nudity and pleasure month instead.

Pick a month and figure out some guidelines, I'm game.

Bring it on!