Category: April 2018

Posted in April 2018, NaPoWriMo 2018, Rhyme

Simultaneity

Posted on by Leonas Lines

Many different hats

Can you take me to town before 3

I really need to talk to PCC

I’m off work at 1 and need a ride you see

Please, don’t forget about me

Have you made those phone calls yet

Sponsors for the Show I need to get

Hope your schedule’s not too tight

We need our new art posted to the site

Have you written that book review

Remember, in just a few days it’s due

Discussion post Thursday deadline

Read lecture and write, no time to whine

Internet shut down, call put on hold

Need a new password I am told

Housework and sleep will just have to wait

So many hats to wear, can’t be late

Time is running, and I am too

Some days there’s just too much to do!

Rhyme

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 10

Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem of simultaneity – in which multiple things are happing at once.

Posted in April 2018, Dialogue, NaPoWriMo 2018, Syllabic Verse

Then and Now

Posted on by Leonas Lines

Pencil and Lined Paper, Apple Pencil and iPad

19th Century Student

“Oh had I known then

What I know now, I’d

Laughed, and not worried”

20th Century Student

“Oh had you known then

What I know now, you’d

Have not believed”

Syllabic Verse-Dialogue

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 7

Write out a list of all of your different layers of identity. For example, you might be a wife, a grandmother, a Philadelphian, a dental assistant, a rabid Phillies fan, a seamstress, retiree, agnostic, cancer survivor, etc.. These are all ways you could be described or lenses you could be viewed through. Now divide all of those things into lists of what makes you feel powerful and what makes you feel vulnerable. Now write a poem in which one of the identities from the first list contends or talks with an identity from the second list. This might turn out to be kind of a “heavy” exercise, emotionally, but I hope you will find the results enlightening

Posted in April 2018, NaPoWriMo 2018, Reverse Etheree

Enveloped by Fear

Posted on by Leonas Lines

Walker

That silver cage that surrounded me

Had now become my closest friend.

I’d come to depend on it.

It was ready to support,

Always there for me.

How could I possibly

Decide to

Let it go

For a

Cane?

It had stood ready to help me in the night.

When I was alone it brought me comfort.

I did not have to worry,

It wouldnt let me fall again.

I was safe with it,

Yet, it held me back.

No! Fear held me!

So I took the

Cane and

Walked!

Double Reverse Etheree

NaPoWriMo 2018. Day 6

Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that stretches your comfort zone with line breaks. That could be a poem with very long lines, or very short lines. Or a poem that blends the two.

Posted in April 2018, Haiku, NaPoWriMo 2018

Unrealized Potential

Posted on by Leonas Lines

Lion and Angel

Looking for escape

Not aware of his resources

Flight to freedom lost

Haiku

NaPoWriMo 2018. Day 5

Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that, like the work in Translucence, reacts both to photography and to words in a language not your own. Begin with a photograph. Now find a poem in a language you don’t know (here’s a good place to look!) Ignore any accompanying English translation (maybe cover it up, or cut-and-paste the original into a new document). Now start translating the poem into English, with the idea that the poem is actually “about” your photograph. Use the look and feel of the words in the original to guide you along as you write, while trying to describe your photograph. It will be a bit of a balancing act, but hopefully it will lead to new and beautiful (and possibly very weird) place

This is the original photo with the original poetry which I found posted at: https://awakenedeye.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/gr-magritte.jpg

Posted in April 2018, NaPoWriMo 2018, Senryu

RV Life

Posted on by Leonas Lines

Homeless Campers, RVs, parked on city streets

Filled with hungry faces

Campers park on city streets

72 hour caravan site

Life’s harsh reality shows

Recreation is just a word

Senryu

Many Cities and Towns are facing a growing number of Homeless RV’ers

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 4

Today, we challenge you to write a poem that is about something abstract – perhaps an ideal like “beauty” or “justice,” but which discusses or describes that abstraction in the form of relentlessly concrete nouns.

Adjectives are fine too! Concrete details like those can draw the reader in and let them imagine the real world where your abstract ideal or feeling happen

Posted in April 2018, List, NaPoWriMo 2018

My Journey With Books

Posted on by Leonas Lines

journey with books

I have been walking
The streets of San Francisco
“In Places Hidden”
Remembering the place
“Where Lilacs Still Bloom”,
While listening to “The Sound of Rain”,
With Judd and Larkin
And, as Hannah did, I am
Clinging to “A Passionate Hope”
Like Masuo Yasui in a “Stubborn Twig”
Or like those many pioneers did
On “The Oregon Trail”.
I, like “Judah’s Wife”, seek peace and safety
So I stop for a “Praise Pause”,
And praise God using one of His many names.
I am so grateful for His “Cherished Mercy”
And His “Redeeming Grace”.

List Poem
(Based on a list of some of the recent books I have or am now reading)
NaPoWriMo 2018-Day 3–List Poem

Book List:

In Places Hidden—Tracie Peterson
Where Lilacs Still Bloom—Jane Kirkpatrick
The Sound of Rain—Sarah Loudin Thomas
A Passionate Hope—Jill Eileen Smith
Stubborn Twig—Lauren Kessler
The Oregon Trail—David Dary
Judah’s Wife—Angela Hunt
Praise Pause—SGLY Ministry
Cherished Mercy—Tracie Peterson
Redeeming Grace—Jill Eileen Smith

Posted in April 2018, NaPoWriMo 2018, Tanka

Different Perspectives

Posted on by Leonas Lines

Strawberries

1. My Point of View:

“Childhood memories

Of my grandpa’s garden patch

Full of strawberries

And the giant apple tree

That hid me as I ate them.”

2. My Sensible Sister’s Point of View:

“You should’ve asked Gramps

Before your hands reached for

His prize berries

Your temptation caused you

To eat and run to that tree.”

3. My Mom’s Point of View:

“Eating strawberries

From her grandpa’s garden patch

Childhood thief flees to

Apple Tree Sanctuary

Her secret place to hide”

Triple Tanka

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 2 Challenge:

to write a poem that plays with voice. For example, you might try writing a stanza that recounts something in the first-person, followed by a stanza recounting the same incident in the second-person, followed by a stanza that treats the incident from a third-person point of view.