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The random musings of a college girl who enjoys just about everything. I enjoy talking and reviewing, so please, feel free to stay a while, sit down, enjoy a coffee. While attempting to find a way to live forever I have come to at least recognize the truth so universal (though I can't say I've given up my quest). So this is my attempt at taking the most from life with the time I have. After all, forever is not so long.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Day 2

Hello all,

Today has been very long, and I have been feeling quite ill. Luckily, Tuesdays are a good lazy day for me to just catch up on rest and relaxation (I only have one one hour class, yippee!) Due to these circumstances I decided that, naturally, the wonderful and simple poetic form of Haiku would just have to do for today.

I decided to come up with my own prompt for today, and if any of you would want to try it I would love for you to leave it in the comments! Just write a poem involving a line from a song in any musical you like. For my particular one, I use The Wizard of Oz and give it a haunting twist:

We're off to see the wizard,
Though the land of Oz
Has long since been burning down.

I'd really like to see what others could come up with! So don't be shy.

Sarah

Monday, April 1, 2013

NaPoWriMo!

It is indeed that time of year again! The time when we who enjoy our writing and our rambling congregate to complete the daunting task of writing 30 poems in 30 days. While not always possible, it is a true test of creativity, resources, and thinking on your feet when it comes to poetry writing. Yeah, you guessed it, I will be doing this this year too as I have done every year. Long ago my friends and I formed some sort of Dead Poet Society based around NaPoWriMo and its sort of stuck ever since..

Anyway, this is usually made easier by the numbers of sites out there that will offer a daily prompt to help stimulate your creative juices if you simply can't think of anything to write about. Can be followed or not, it's poetry, who said there have to be rules? Well, for the start I decided to follow a lovely prompt from www.napowrimo.net. I'd also suggest checking out the blogs from other writers on there, seeing others work  as well as sharing your own. The prompt they had picked out today was to use the first line of a famous poem, and me, being original as I am, used a Shakespeare sonnet with a little twist, to direct it towards my lovely fiance, something which I'll probably be doing a lot of (hey, we just recently got engaged.)

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Or perhaps you’d rather not be seen that way,
Perhaps you are the winter moon
In the cold air to make me swoon,
Perhaps you are the starry night
A blissful end to my toiling plight,
Perhaps you may be this crisp spring air
Eyes so blue and skin so fair,
Perhaps you are a lover’s sigh
To fill me with warmth when the day is nigh,
Or perhaps you are none of these,
And to be mine is all you please.

Such is my love poem. You don't have to be corny like me, experiment! Seriously there is so much out there, so many poems waiting to be written. So find something you like and get writing!

Sarah