Poetry Blog
When the Sirens Fade and Silence Speaks The clock turns, but it never truly resets. It only folds time—past into present, memory into breath. Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt draws inspiration from Jennifer Moxley and her poem After Turning the Clocks Back, where the present moment is …
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There’s a long-standing tradition in poetry—dating back to Horace—called ars poetica, or “the art of poetry.” It asks a simple but loaded question: why do we write? For some, poetry is beauty. For others, it’s truth. For me, it’s survival. Today’s poem doesn’t soften that …
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Day 24 of Na/GloPoWriMo is here ✍️🔥 Today’s prompt invited us to stretch language in multiple directions at once—layering metaphors onto a single image, shifting tone, pausing to define a word, and then circling back to where we began. It’s a challenge in control and …
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What’s so good about Thursday? Well—during Na/GloPoWriMo, it’s another reason to write. ✍️🍂🔥 Day 23 brings us into the world of form with the villanelle—a structure built on repetition, rhythm, and restraint. Inspired by Kiki Petrosino’s “Nursery,” today’s challenge is to create something that echoes …
Read More Happy Wednesday, and welcome back to Day 22 of Na/GloPoWriMo 🔥🥃 Today’s prompt leans into something both playful and deceptively deep—writing a poem where the speaker is in conversation with themselves. Inspired by Jaswinder Bolina’s “Mood Ring,” this idea of duality—of being both the voice …
Read More 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.
The waves don’t ask forgiveness, don’t wait for your pain—
they just keep rolling, steady and wild again…
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 …
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