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