Day 7: The Shallow Pit

to compare
your demons
to my demons
when
the idea of
hell is
always hell.

Day 3: Passive Agressive

you listen but
you never hear.

i search but
i never find.

you look but
you never see.

i want but
i never need.

you use commas but
you never use the dot.

i risk but
i never want pain.

you like but
you never love.

i scream but
you never hear.

Day 1: From ‘Soliloquy of the Solipsist’

I
I walk alone;
With a shudder and a stutter through
the cold dark streets of winter that
lead to nowhere and everywhere.

I
I walk alone;
Turning a deaf ear to the warnings of
heavy snow clinging down my back saying
I should leave this place for home.

I
I walk alone;
The wind can protest, the wind can whisper;
The path might be enveloped with fog but
in the hands of time, they change.

I
I walk alone;
And thus I am resilient, if days would move kindly;
As I see the beacon of hope clearly, why
look back when you can move forward?

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Prompt: NaPoWriMo Begins!

First lines derived from Sylvia Plath‘s Soliloquy of the Solipsist.

Day 5: An Untitled Reverse Cinquain

tonight

the leaves fall, crickets die, stars gone,

and yet the wind whispers

a silent scream

of death.

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Prompt: Cinquains for Day Five

Day 4: In Pursuit of Sunshine

I couldn’t catch the sunshine

although it glared at me and hit me from

the eye, down to the gut, down to..

I couldn’t catch the sunshine

though there I was with arms

outstretched and a vast open sky.

I couldn’t catch the sunshine

but it burned me slowly. then

suddenly, and unexpectedly.

I couldn’t catch the sunshine

with my palms clenched and unclenched.

Perhaps it was never really mine.

Project NaPoWriMo 2013: Challenge Accepted!

Here I am, taking the plunge and posting something to welcome myself. This is a blog purely devoted to NaPoWriMo 2013, unless I change my mind later on.

This year, I’m joining 893273928 other poets and people like me (who’d do it just because) for National Poetry Writing Month 2013 also commonly known as NaPoWriMo.

What is NaPoWriMo?

NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April.

NaPoWriMo was founded in 2003, when poet Maureen Thorson decided to take up the challenge (modeled after NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), and challenged other poets to join her. Since then, the number of participants has gotten larger every year, and many writers’ organizations, local, national and even international, organize NaPoWriMo activities.

In short, it’s going to be one poem each day for thirty days.

I’m way behind schedule already but I will try to make up for the last (lost) three days.

Here’s what you need to know:

• I may or may not ignore writing prompts. It’s never intentional but I do tend to stray.
• I don’t usually blog about my life because I’m sort of keeping things private. Heck even my lame attempts at poetry and prose are private, that’s why this is truly a first.
• I never really take anything seriously. Most of my posts will consist of 10-30 minute scribbles over coffee break.
• Comments are very much welcome. Must I allow you to say whatever you feel like saying or must I order you to be kind?
• I’d like to read your work too. Drop me a line!

Let the word vomit commence!