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NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 17

When the first drops fell •
everyone paused turning •
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Day 17 NaPoWriMo 2022 – Haiku Day

I am calling it a rest day, since I was out and around and ate way too much for dinner tonight. Here are the haiku that I mushed together with minor massaging into yesterday’s sonnet: april seventeen easter, pesach, ramadan … Continue reading

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Day 16 NaPoWriMo 2022

The NaPoWriMo prompt suggested we “write a curtal sonnet. This is a variation on the classic 14-line sonnet. The curtal sonnet form was developed by Gerard Manley Hopkins, and he used it for what is probably his most famous poem, … Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo Day Seventeen – National Haiku Day

I was thinking about some of the things that were just setting in last year – changes at work, figuring out grocery shopping etc. year that slipped away isolation fell like snow to weirding quiet often day’s high point lunch … Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo Day Seven

Gave myself over to doing some web-stuff today – what a time-sink that always is but still, a job done in the end. In passing, I saw a quote that I chewed on while working until this came out: Put … Continue reading

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