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Today’s featured participant is 7eyedwonder.
Our final daily resource is this repository of podcasts hosted by the Scottish Poetry Library.
Prompt:
Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem in which the speaker is identified with, or compared to, a character from myth or legend, as in Claire Scott’s poem “Scheherazade at the Doctor’s Office.”
Happy writing!
Congratulations you made it through NaPoWriMo 2024, 30 days and hopefully 30 poems later you’re happy (and perhaps relieved)… massive kudos. Now let the poems rest a while and come back to the editing room later this Spring/Summer, see what wonders your mind and hand combined under the watchful/thoughtful NaPo prompts.
As for me, I think this may be the first year I have not completed in real time. This week is brutal (schedule wise) and I can barely see the screen this late on in the evening. So I have come to post but will come back to finishing NaPo when I have time later this week.
I will post the final featured participant tomorrow after work and may even get stuck in to some writing, although I do have 2 events to attend.
I wanted to read the featured poem – but having not yet penned my Taylor Swift prompt poem from yesterday (Day 29), I am not able to read any yet.
I am aware of the Scottish Poetry Library and love this excellent resource. They also have a link on the homepage back to the Robert Burns Archive (BBC) shared last week (Day 24) in NaPo.
I treated myself to a podcast ‘Nothing but the Poem’ – Ross Gay recorded back in July 2023.
Poem to My Child, If Ever You Shall Be
BY ROSS GAY
Sorrow Is Not My Name
BY ROSS GAY
—after Gwendolyn Brooks
It’s great that the poems are linked and that you are guided to respond. This is a resource I will be dipping back into on my writing days for definite. GOLD DUST!
I then read Claire Scott’s poem Scheherazade at the Doctor’s.
Deep inhalation. A remarkable poem. I look forward to writing this prompt.
I will update this post when I have.