My Favorite Words and Thoughts - NaPoWriMo #28

Be ACCEPTING – embrace differences

Seek BALANCE – it keeps you level headed

Genuine CARING – honest compassion

True DEVOTION – keep your commitments

Always EMPATHIZE – supportive not sympathy

Deep FAITH – the LORD is always the answer

Practice GRATITUDE – remember to be thankful

Be HUMBLE – someone else is more important than you

INSPIRE others – be an example

Act JOLLY – laughter is contagious

Treat KINDLY – payback will be tenfold

LOVE deeply – give 100% of your love

Expect MIRACLES – they happen every day

NURTURE others – then watch them grow

Act OPTIMISTIC – it is easier then negativity

Speak POSITIVELY – spread happy thoughts

QUIET introspection – look into yourself

Be REMEMBERED – make it for the right reason

SMILE always – you might make someone’s day

Give TRUST – even when it is difficult

Seek UNDERSTANDING – before leaping

VALUE moments – too soon they are gone

WARM hugs – share these with those in need

Find XANADU – keep looking for happiness

YIELD control – avoid rigidity

ZEALOUS living – life is short so live it

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© Lisa N ~ 4/28/2011

NaPoWriMo #28

Make a list of your favorite words today.

Write a poem that uses 90% of the words you wrote down.

You Are Like

You are like a gentle rain

Filling my life like a water main

You are like a blustery breeze

Swinging in like on your trapeze

You are like a sunny day

Forming me from dark and gray

You are like the green of spring

Raising my pulse like a growing thing

You are like a butterfly

Touching and making me liquify

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© Lisa N ~ 4/27/2011

NaPoWriMo #27

Write a poem with 10 metaphors

V is for Villanelle - Guiding Light of Love

Your love has become my guiding light

The past took its toll each day

I think of you and all seems right

My adoration grew strong at first sight

Who would think it could be this way

Your love has become my guiding light

The past left me scarred with an ugly blight

To ease the pain that now comes my way

I think of you and all seems right

Filled with angst I’ve learned what might

Become of me if I give control away

Your love has become my guiding light

Anxiety had kept me up at night

Who knew peace would come someday

I think of you and all seems right,

When my life’s adrift and feels uptight

You’re a lighthouse keeping fear at bay

Your love has become my guiding light

I think of you and all seems right

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© Lisa N ~ 4/26/2011

This form is called a Villanelle Poem. It is a 19 line poem,

Very specific rhyming pattern of aba aba aba aba aba abaa

The first and third stanza a repeated in alternating order.

LOVE the Beauty of Nature - NaPoWriMo #24 Challenge

Beauty is allover I am realizing

As I sit among the field of clover

Hidden amongst are foxglove flowers

Looking to the left is see cloven-hoofed deer

In the distance the killdeer plover take flight

At the edge of the field paloverde shrubs reside

Up high in the sky gentle clouds rollover the horizon

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© Lisa N ~ 4/24/2011

NaPoWriMo #24

Write a poem that has the word “love” hidden in it somewhere.

But you cannot use the word “love” by itself, it must be hidden

I Will - NaPoWriMo Prompt

NaPoWriMo #23
Write a poem where the last word of the first line begins with the first letter of
your name, and the last word of the second line begins with the second letter of
your name until you have spelled out your first and/or your last name. 

 

Work at my…Listening

Strive to be….Inspiring

Always be…...…Supporting

Willingly be...Accepting

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© Lisa N ~ 4/23/2011

Q is for Quinzaine - Ode to Feet

Ode to abused lovely feet

How do you survive

all the pain?

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© Lisa N ~ 4/20/2011

This form is called a Quinzaine Poem.

Written in 3 lines. Line 1 is 7 syllables.

Line 2 is 5 syllables and is the beginning of a question.

Line 3 is 3 syllables and is the end of the question.

NaPoWriMo #20 - Write a poem about your feet.



Small Minded Limerick

NaPoWriMo #18

Write a poem about something that is small that is only 5 lines long.

For those who are small minded

By arrogance you are blinded

Selfish attitude

Your comments are rude

Might help if you are reminded

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© Lisa N ~ 4/18/2011

Cranberry Confusion

NaPoWriMo Prompt #17  - Write a poem that includes these words:  bamboozled, bludlust, bibliography.  Have the title include on of these words:  contradiction, constellation, cranberry

A simple small red berry

With such a lovely taste

Bamboozled me when freeze dried

It seems like such a waste

I search across the internet

Looking for an explanation?

Bibliography on wiki

Gave no explanation

It continues to raise my hackles

Berries treated to a bloodlust

Yet knowing what the reason

Is no longer such a must

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© Lisa N ~ 4/17/2011

N is for Nonet - Spring Is Coming

Gusting winds in front of the rainstorm

Leaves and flowers on the pear tree

Crocus blossoms popping out

The Seedlings taking root

Sprinkles coming down

Dogs sunbathing

Birds in Trees

Sunshine

Spring

This form is called a Nonet. A Nonet has nine lines.

The first line has nine syllables and each line decreases to one syllable.

NaPoWriMo #16

Write a poem about 10 things I’ve seen in the last 24 hours.

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© Lisa N ~ 4/16/2011



M is for Mirror Refrain - Mystified at the Zoo



A Monkey and His Muffin

From Branch To Branch They Sway

It Was Quite The Sight To See

When I Went To The Zoo Today

A Hippo and Her Hamburger

She Swam Away From Me

When I Went To The Zoo Today

It Was Quite The Sight To See

A Lion and His Licorice

Caused The Crowd To Shout Hooray

It Was Quite The Sight To See

When I Went To The Zoo Today

An Otter and Her Oranges

Tossed Up High Right Near A Tree

When I Went To The Zoo Today

It Was Quite The Sight To See

This form is called a Mirrored Refrain and is rhyming poetry written in quatrains.

Within the quatrain are the “mirrored refrain”. The rhyming scheme is xaBA,xbAB,xaBa,xbAB.

x does not rhyme within the poem. A and B represent the refrain.

NaPoWriMo #15

Write a poem about the wallpaper on your computer.

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© Lisa N ~ 4/15/2011



K is for Kyrielle Verse and Kindle (A-Z Challenge and NaPoWriMo #13)

NaPoWriMo #11

Write a poem that begins with a letter of something you have in your house.

An ode to my new reading tool

Something that I did not intend

Yet having one does break a rule

My Kindle is my newest friend

Unfaithful to my paperbacks

Electronic doesn’t feel penned

Gone is my heavy toting sacks

My Kindle is my newest friend

Can’t seem to give up books in hand

Even so I still recommend

You try them both don’t take a stand

My Kindle is my newest friend

This form is called Kyrielle, a French form of rhyming poetry written in quatrains. Each line consists of only eight syllables.  Popular rhyming is aabB,ccbB,ddbB or aabB,ccbB,ddbB, with B being the repeated.

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© Lisa N ~ 4/13/2011

I is for Inside Outside Verse (A-Z Challenge / NaPoWriMo #11)

NaPoWriMo #11

Write a poem that begins with the lasting thing
you remember someone saying to you.

My inside self and my outside self

are as different as can be

My outside self

confidently speaks about my writing ability

and believes the posted comments.

My inside self

is full of doubt listening to that small voice

telling me I’m fooling myself.

This form is called an Inside Outside verse.
Describes a person as they think others might see them

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© Lisa N ~ 4/11/2011

7 Deadly Sins

NaPoWriMo #10

Write a poem about the one/all of the 7 sins that only
contains seven words per line

Lust ~ having an intense desire or need

Gluttony – an excess eating or drinking deed

Greed – reprehensible sensitivity and unwilling to accede

Laziness – disinclined to move with any speed

Wrath – vengeful anger, unwillingness to concede

Envy – resenting advantage of other to succeed

Pride – state of being proud can exceed

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© Lisa N ~ 4/10/2011

H is for Haiku and Hollyhocks

Flowers Blooming Tall

Hollyhocks Shaped Like An “H”

Succulent Blossoms

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© Lisa N. ~ 4/9/2011



Recipe for Love – NaPoWriMo #7

Write a poem or prose about a recipe.

1 cup patience

1 cup kindness
1 cup tolerance
½ cup swallowed pride
½ cup “I sorry I was wrong”
1 tsp of memories (both good and bad)

Mix together patience, kindness and tolerance. Fold into the mixture the pride and sorry. Add the memories right before pouring into a well oiled LIFE pan.

Bake slowly for 25 to 50 years. Enjoy all along the way. Recipe serves EVERYONE.

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© Lisa N ~ 4/7/2011

Darkness and Light - NaPoWriMo #6

The sky is dark before me

It matches my mood

Depressed

Alone

Aware

Confident

Positive words like light

The day dawns bright ahead

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© Lisa N ~ 4/6/2011

To Succeed

I’ve found that often

when you’re in need

If at first

you don’t succeed

Try and try

and just pay heed

For what you plant

may be the seed

A wish that’s made

that is not greed

Is possible

through word and deed

Don’t give up

of this I plead

If at first

you don’t succeed

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© Lisa N ~ 4/5/2011

Why Rain? ( NaPoWriMO #4 / Magpie)

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Challenge:seven words that have the same vowel sounds (rain,pane,plain,disdain,constrain,germane,restrain,attain)

and use them in a repetitive way throughout a poem.

Standing sadly in my room

Looking out the pane

I watch the weather oh so close

Try to find restrain

For on the window you will see

The subject of my disdain

Tiny droplets are beading up

Mother Nature’s gift is rain

It’s not as though I hate it

In fact you’ll find it’s plain

There’s beauty in the sprinkling

I know that it’s germane

Yet on this special day you see

I was hoping for constrain

Maybe on my wedding day

A rainbow we’ll attain

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© Lisa N ~ 4/4/2011



My Dearest - NOT (NaPoWriMO #3 and PAD Day 2)

Challenge: Poem love letter to an old flame. (Mine is fiction)

Use one or more of these words:

dung beetle, politician, nuclear, exoskeleton, oceanography, pompadour, toilet

My Dearest Darling Daniel

I write to you today

I wonder why you treated me

as a dung beetle in your way

I remember how you used to look

That pompadour was so poofy

All swirled up on top your head

you looked a lot like “Goofy”

I know I sound a little trite

But if you could only know

A politician shouldn’t make a date

And instead decide to just not show

You made me look like such a fool

The waiters questions made me blush

Your notes of love are gone for good

Down the toilet in one flush

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© Lisa N ~ 4/2/2011

Charma - NaPoWriMO #2

Challenge: Poem about a superhero coming to my house

A superhero came to my house

Charma was her name

An appropriate name it was

Charisma was her game

She seemed to be your average girl

When you first met her

But soon you’d find the real truth

Magic she used to blur

Dressed in royal blue and black

A common looking suit

The spells she cast upon her prey

Would always make you mute

My first impression proved to be

Off base and clearly mistaken

For a superhero she was not

Just a woman who was fakin.

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© Lisa N ~ 4/2/2011