Poetry Blog
Three weeks into NaPoWriMo and today’s prompt hit close to home.
I wrote about my name—Richard—and all the versions of me that came with it: Ricky, Rick, Rich, Ritchie… even one born from a broken photocopy. Each one carries a memory, a voice, a different kind of closeness.
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Five petals open like a hand—
the iris speaks in silence,
a messenger of hope rooted in grief,
blooming between worlds.
Today’s prompt pulls us into memory—the kind that feels cinematic when we look back on it. Between Kavya Janani U’s striking blackout poem and the reflections on (mis)translation by Yuki Tanaka, there’s a clear thread today: how the smallest choices—what we remove, what we keep, …
Read More NaPoWriMo Day 8 Prompt for the day is… Use repetition as your driving force today. Choose a simple phrase and return to it throughout your poem. Each time it appears, let it shift—contradict it, unravel it, or deepen its meaning in a new way. Allow …
Read MoreAcross quiet rooms and late-lit desks, stories are already being written.Not at the perfect moment. Not when the path is clear. Simply now—in the middle of hardship, in the slow turning toward hope, in the deep and restless need to speak. Writers who work in …
Read MoreBy @RWhiteAuthor 🌿 NaPoWriMo Day 13: Inspired by Donald Justice’s “There is a gold light in certain old paintings” Today’s poem explores memory, art, and the way moments—like brushstrokes—blur and echo in the mind. Following Justice’s self-invented form, each stanza holds six lines of twelve syllables. …
Read MoreDrawn from Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, this blackout poem explores the philosophy of self-overcoming. Nietzsche famously wrote, “One must have chaos within to give birth to a dancing star.” This piece embraces that tension—how darkness, struggle, and the unknown shape transformation. The erasure leaves behind fragments of existential battle and ascent, mirroring the journey of one who dares to evolve beyond their former self.
Read MoreA blackout poem unveiling the journey of self-discovery through darkness, where hidden truths emerge from the void. What remains when words fade?
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