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NaPoWriMo 2.3: A Charm Against Losing It
Ding! Ding! Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt was to write a charm against something. And today’s 52 prompt was to write about losing something....
Apr 3, 20141 min read
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NaPoWriMo 2.2: Ekkimu in the Reduced Section
Now 49p. Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt is to write something based on mythology that isn’t Greek or Roman. On my web-travels, I discovered...
Apr 2, 20141 min read
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NaPoWriMo 2.1: Eat Chips
“Ten trillion flies can’t be wrong…” **WARNING** Parental Guidance – (Mildly) Explicit Lyrics So it begins. And I do enjoy the challenge...
Apr 1, 20141 min read
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NaPoWriMo 30: Here, Roots Are Not Joined
You fear, you fear her return. IT IS THE END OF NAPOWRIMO. And it really has been marvellous. I’ve just one poem (apart from that below)...
Apr 30, 20132 min read
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NaPoWriMo 29: Excerpts from a Report on the New Poem Aquarium
An empty aquarium – shall we fill it with poems? Shall we? So yes, it being the end of NaPoWriMo, I’m going quite deranged and using...
Apr 29, 20131 min read
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NaPoWriMo 28: Painting Friends’ Palettes
A lovely iridescent bubble Yesterday’s NaPoWriMo prompt was to write about a colour. So – as it’s nearing the end of the month and I (as...
Apr 29, 20132 min read
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NaPoWriMo 27: Tami Is Using Pinterest
All that glitters is not what’s good for the goose. Feeling experimental today! I have been out running a workshop earlier, so just used...
Apr 27, 20131 min read
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NaPoWriMo 26: Stories and/or Plans and/or Ideas
This became the nickname for my Mum, so my step-dad made her an actual Mothership logo – AWESOIME. Here’s my Day 26 offering, from Jo...
Apr 26, 20131 min read
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NaPoWriMo 25: Picnic Ballad
Here is your hamper… …have a lovely time Sometimes, you’ve just got to let it all out. But, so a long-standing motto of mine goes: Make...
Apr 25, 20132 min read
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NaPoWriMo 24: Dust Across the Beam
Hyde Park Picture House: 100 in 2014! As you may have noticed, things have been a bit cinematic on my blog during NaPoWriMo. I’m reading...
Apr 24, 20132 min read
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NaPoWriMo 23: A Triolet for Entropy
The Universe loves things to get more disordered. (So most of us fit right in – We Are Stardust!) I’m running on a slightly altered...
Apr 23, 20131 min read
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NaPoWriMo 22: Generic Blessings
Temple Newsam House, with its blessing around the roof-line Catching up with some NaPoWriMo prompts: determined to have at least 30 by...
Apr 22, 20131 min read
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NaPoWriMo 21: White Violin or, Lord Raby’s Massive Silver Wine Cooler
Lord Raby’s Massive Silver Wine Cooler – as so described on the signs in Temple Newsam House! Filling in an earlier gap from NaPoWriMo: I...
Apr 21, 20132 min read
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NaPoWriMo 20: Rising Suns
Piss-en-lit! Taraxacum! Yesterday’s NaPoWriMo prompt was to use a prescribed list of words and include 5 or more in a poem. Jo Bell’s...
Apr 21, 20132 min read
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NaPoWriMo 19: Dating the Deep
COLOSSUS SEEKS KRAKEN Yesterday’s prompt was to write a poem in the form of a personal ad (from NaPoWriMo) or to write about a particular...
Apr 20, 20131 min read
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NaPoWriMo 18: Me or Him, Even
Even? A really quick one today, from both Jo Bell’s prompt (write about something you feel guilty for) and the NaPoWriMo prompt, to start...
Apr 18, 20132 min read
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NaPoWriMo 17: Google Search Suggestions on the Day of Thatcher’s Funeral
Indeed she is not. At least we all have death in common though, eh? Off-prompt today, but will be writing a Blessing (after Jo Bell’s...
Apr 17, 20132 min read
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NaPoWriMo 16: Apple ’til Blackened Lager
Look! Blackened Lager is an actual thing! This was really good fun: the prompt today was to find a poem in a language other than English...
Apr 16, 20132 min read
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NaPoWriMo 16: Emancipation on Briggate
Fortunately, the wheelie bin I saw on the move this morning off Briggate was not air-borne (just ground-borne – can something be...
Apr 16, 20131 min read
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NaPoWriMo 15: Transaction on a Spring Day – A Pantum
The OWL (Observation Wheel Leeds) at night – which is the ‘great revolving wheel’ in the poem… Today’s prompt: a Malay verse-form “of...
Apr 15, 20131 min read
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