04-30-2025, 07:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-30-2025, 07:04 PM by RiverNotch.)
Rules: Write a poem for national poetry month on the topic or form described. Each poem should appear as a separate reply to this thread. The goal is to, at the end of the month have written 30 poems for National Poetry Month.
This year, there are no form requirements, only "tiers" or "rankings" given informally to all participants:
Bronze Tier: Participate at least once.
Silver Tier: Participate all days.
Gold Tier: Participate all days, and have all entries be the same form or have all entries be different forms.
Poems-about-suicide month, here in the Pig Pen, has been June for about half the times it's been a thing, but I guess this sort of precludes that...or does it? Let's do a vote, by way of your poems: either follow Todd's prompt:
It is now time for the "3rd Annual Poems About Suicide Month" at The Pigpen, where we ask you to FIGURATIVELY slice a vein and pour out your depression onto paper (or make it up as that's what writers do).
or write a poem involving a king, a kingdom, or kingship in general.
Also, re rowens: idk who RoadBase is, but the name is familiar---was that person into magic?---and, yeah, bang on. The pattern for sefira and trumps is: 1, nil-1, 2, 2-3, 3, 4-6, 4, 7-9, 5, 10-11, 6, 12-14, 7, 15-17, 8, 18-19, 9, 20-21, 10. At times I obviously got a little lazy (albeit these prompts were all prepared in one go about a week in advance), but I am happy with the way some of the prompts were chosen, like "the devil" being corporate-sponsored.
For the next few years I again hope to do more than 30. Maybe 33, each day based on a canto from
the Commedia, or maybe, if it's not too religious, a certain cycle of religious icons I have, or maybe some tradition fully outside the west. I had originally thought to do 30 based on various countries and famous events, but it ended up being too hard to justify each choice: easier to stick to some preexisting list.
Or we could return to "normal" and have these prompts be semi-random.
This year, there are no form requirements, only "tiers" or "rankings" given informally to all participants:
Bronze Tier: Participate at least once.
Silver Tier: Participate all days.
Gold Tier: Participate all days, and have all entries be the same form or have all entries be different forms.
Poems-about-suicide month, here in the Pig Pen, has been June for about half the times it's been a thing, but I guess this sort of precludes that...or does it? Let's do a vote, by way of your poems: either follow Todd's prompt:
It is now time for the "3rd Annual Poems About Suicide Month" at The Pigpen, where we ask you to FIGURATIVELY slice a vein and pour out your depression onto paper (or make it up as that's what writers do).
or write a poem involving a king, a kingdom, or kingship in general.
Also, re rowens: idk who RoadBase is, but the name is familiar---was that person into magic?---and, yeah, bang on. The pattern for sefira and trumps is: 1, nil-1, 2, 2-3, 3, 4-6, 4, 7-9, 5, 10-11, 6, 12-14, 7, 15-17, 8, 18-19, 9, 20-21, 10. At times I obviously got a little lazy (albeit these prompts were all prepared in one go about a week in advance), but I am happy with the way some of the prompts were chosen, like "the devil" being corporate-sponsored.
For the next few years I again hope to do more than 30. Maybe 33, each day based on a canto from
the Commedia, or maybe, if it's not too religious, a certain cycle of religious icons I have, or maybe some tradition fully outside the west. I had originally thought to do 30 based on various countries and famous events, but it ended up being too hard to justify each choice: easier to stick to some preexisting list.
Or we could return to "normal" and have these prompts be semi-random.