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Crayon wrote:[prompt: poem with 17 syllables per line]

Brevity

The obvious prob-
lem with haiku is that they're
nowhere near long en

A mere seventeen
syllables aren't even ad-
equate for one sen

However, three hai-
ku are probably enough
to say something worth

My today's poem will be tomorrow due to Rosemary's book launch...

Thanks Luce!

Again this was pretty indirect inspiration. This time it was the title of the interview linked from the NaPoWriMo blog...

Luce -- you made me smile a lot with this

"Official" prompt: http://www.napowrimo.net/day-five-4/

And Marie's: https://marielightmanpromptresponse.wor ... er-prompt/

Crayon wrote:[prompt: baby on a train]

baby on a train ~
unattended, it becomes
a terror threat

They're separate.

It does come out a kind of syllabic verse but with such long lines its also very slow in delivery. She put it in a private FB page, so I can't really share. It was only 5 lines...

Nothing else about the baby, make stuff up

Luce wrote:Ian - Correct me if I'm wrong but weren't we suppose to allude to the color without actually mentioning it?

Luce

If it was about the colour...

Just getting a few prompts in ready...

- I just saw some one write a poem with 17 syllables in each line, like a haiku on each line -- try this...
- There is a baby on the train and it is staring at you

Today's: http://www.ianbadcoe.uk/2017/04/napowri ... -star.html

Other prompts I have seen for today:

- A poem that is in alphabetical order
- A poem about an aspect of yourself

Marie's is about elements: https://marielightmanpromptresponse.wor ... le-prompt/

Great stuff all!

Ros -- an intriguing sketch, would be interested if it went further...

Luce -- lovely take on my prompt, don't we all delay too long and then overreact...?

Seth -- a recipe? With 60 cows in it? Or is this the recipe for the herd?

k-j -- going a bit Ogden Nash?

My today's effort is here: http://www.ianbadcoe.uk/2017/04/napowri ... -grow.html

(I cannot be bothered reformatting onto all the multiple places I am sharing these... sorry)

Kay-Ryan Prompt True Believer To start again with you is no small job. I shiver in my shoes, although the day is hot. The night you left, leaving fresh scars on my face. is a memory I cannot erase. But, call me a fool for I forgive all you have done, my darling, my fluffy, randy tailed tom. Comment...

Thanks for setting it up, Ian. (For he's a jolly good fellow...) I have opted for a prompt of nature. A Oneness of Striped Things Adder. Female. By the daffs. Larger than you might expect. A sunning spiral. As the head moves sideways, the body is an unwinding wheel-- with a bumble bee at the hub-- ...

There's a certain formalism in these things When she is willing, or even keen, she strips the flowers from her hat and scatters them upon the treacherous back step. For him he'll try to get her attention, by reading, silent, in the outside loo. There's other things they do: she smokes a cigarette -...

More international and local prompts: "Greg Rusedski" (from: https://liesdreamingpodcast.wordpress.com/2017/03/25/napowrimo-writing-prompts/) "A poem in the form of, or inspired by, a recipe" (from: http://www.napowrimo.net/) Marie Lightman has a whole year of prompts, and has pi...

Taking the Facebook thumbs-up icon as inspiration... --- The Impirator's Trending Clothes Twenty-Three Thousand People are talking about this, and of course you want to Save the Bees, so click: the simplest act which in an earlier and less gratificationally now regime would have seemed as if it coul...

A prompt from the "official" NaPoWriMo site: http://www.napowrimo.net/day-one-it-begins/ Where they suggest you write a Kay Ryan-esque poem... --- Or here: https://liesdreamingpodcast.wordpress.com/2017/03/25/napowrimo-writing-prompts/ Where the suggestion is anything inspired by: The Face...

Actually I changed my mind about format for NaPoWriMo, instead let's have a thread per day, where anybody can post prompts or poems for that day. That way we may roughly stay together and not have anybody wander off into the deep, cool depths of the forest, where satyrs and insurance brokers are fou...

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for who won, who lost, and why you want to write a poem every day for the next month...

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for who won, who lost, and why you want to write a poem every day for the next month...

Results Well it was a four horse race. Assuming the idea of three of the horses being clones gets past the Jockey Club. [center]In joint 3rd place: k-j with The untrustworthy ones and k-j with Perhaps In second place: NotQuiteSure with Just Another (B****t) Fairy Tale And in first place: k-j with S...