This week, we invite you to write a post — in verse or in prose — inspired by poetry.
By April is National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo), and we’re thrilled to celebrate all the poets and verse-lovers active on WordPress.com.
NaPoWriMo aside, poetry is around us during the other eleven months of the year, too. Whenever you’re reading a psalm, you’re reading poetry. Whenever you read The Gruffalo or The Cat in the Hat to your (or someone else’s) kids, you’re exposing them to poetry. Last year, when you heard these lyrics on the radio:
Like the legend of the Phoenix
All ends with beginnings
What keeps the planets spinning
The force from the beginning
You may have thought you were just listening to a catchy pop tune by Daft Punk. True. But that song was using poetic devices (rhyme, alliteration, simile, and repetition, among others) that have been deployed by poets for millennia.
Billboard poetry by Robert Montgomery. Photo credit: the artist’s site.
For this week’s challenge, we have several options for you, depending on your mood and relation to poetry.
- Are you a poet? We’d like to commission a new poem from you — whether you prefer traditional forms (a sonnet or two? A meaty ballad?) or you’re into free verse, we’ll be happy either way.
- Have you dabbled in verse but are looking for something new? Feel free to experiment with a form you wouldn’t usually use. How about a tautogram, a poem where each word starts in the same letter (here’s a great one we recently discovered)? Or try an acrostic, where the first letters of each verse combine into a new word or phrase (hey, if it’s good enough for Edgar Allan Poe…). You could always just compose the next post you were planning to write — in verse.
- Would you like to give poetry a try? NaPoWriMo is clearly the best time to start. You could write a poem in the style of your favorite poet (don’t have one yet? Then go with a random poem!). Or open the first book you can find on page 72, and use the first word on that page as the title of your poem — then write it!
- Are you truly verse-averse? You could always write a prose poem (yes, that’s a thing). Or simply write a post in prose about that traumatic fourth-grade experience that made you hate poetry forever.
If you’d like to use some unusual formatting for your poems, you might want to explore these ideas on displaying poetry on your blogs. We look forward to your poetic experimentations!
This made me so happy! All of us wordpress poets can unite on this one, thanks!
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Ma sha Allah. This is good. So I writ a post on my blog and just link it to this? I don’t understand how the pingback works. What I did was just highlighted and linked it o this. But how do you know if it went through?
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I wrote a poem 2 days ago….but I can do another for the challenge.
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do you know how to put a pingback…
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Add link of this post to your post.. it will create automatic pingback here..
Hope it helps ^-^
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Here is my answer for the challenge : http://icezine.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/time-for-poetry/
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I had been meaning to write a sequel to one of my first posts and this challenge gave me an excuse to do so.
Here’s the new poem for this challenge:
http://bumblepuppies.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/field-trips-insult-my-intelligence/
And here’s the original post:
http://bumblepuppies.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/classroom-pets-insult-my-intelligence/
(Warning: they’re not happy and cheerful.)
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Cool, killing two birds with one stone (had to do a NaPoWriMo post). Check out what I did. I went Elizabethan with it.
http://thebohemianrockstarpresents.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/napowrimo-day-14-a-on-writing-sonnet/
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Where do we post our poems? 🙂 You can read my latest, alluding to the bard himself on my blog.
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If you post a pingback to this page it will appear in the little list below. And I’ll definitely check out your poem!
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Is this a pingback? Sorry, I’m still learning the loingo.;-)
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Inspired by the poetic lyrics of Dar Williams (and the art on the walls of Mad Men):
http://andreabadgley.com/2014/04/14/everything-i-need-to-know-about-creative-spaces-i-learned-from-the-art-on-mad-men/
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I hope you will like it!
http://scentofrina.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/chained/
and this old ones too..
http://scentofrina.wordpress.com/2014/02/25/love-book/
http://scentofrina.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/twisted-love/
and much more…
I would appreciate your input, and any thoughts you have !
Hugs!
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I tried the whole pingback bizness but dunno if I did it correctly.
So, just in case here’s a link to my blog and poetry.
http://yifof.com/
Thanks for all the wonderful prompts…its a fantabulous way to crank up the creativity juices on a Monday!
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Hey hi hello 🙂
I am new to blogging and came across your post 🙂 ..
Written well.. 🙂
Would appreciate your feedback on my posts 🙂
Thanks in advance 🙂 n keep in touch..!!!
http://samjothsashidharan.wordpress.com/2014/03/15/gusts-of-separation/
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Thanks! I anticipated this and started this one early April, which is also OT month. A poem to celebrate both: http://wp.me/p3yvsq-mB
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A glowing old women walked by me the other day. She was entering the grocery store, I was walking out. She made an impact that I won’t soon forget. http://theshadytree.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/how-do-you-do/
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Check out my poetry about A world Inwards-
http://thatindianminimalist.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/a-world-inwards/
Awaiting feedbacks! 😀
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This is going to be fun
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the people who you did love
become ghosts inside of you
and like the restless dead
they continue to haunt you
like a nightmare that neverendingly recurs
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Here’s my contribution: Patients is a virtue, have it if you can, It’s seldom found in woman, but never found in man.
Leslie
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Poetry is the art of innovation………. Creativity lives on…………
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Do pingbacks enabled after the fact work?
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huzzah for poetry!
haiku poems are always fun to have a go at…
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I have a special ed blog for families and other educators and I composed a couple of poems in my blog. I love writing poetry and will share more on: http://www.teachingseverespecialed.com
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Hey hi hello 🙂
I am new to blogging and came across your post 🙂 ..
Written well.. 🙂
Would appreciate your feedback on my posts 🙂
Thanks in advance 🙂 n keep in touch..!!!
http://samjothsashidharan.wordpress.com/2014/03/15/gusts-of-separation/
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Normally I’m all in for National Poetry Month, but haven’t been able to engage this year due to life being lifelike. Maybe I’ll throw down a new poem anyway just to get the word-flow going.
Also, for those looking to discover new poets, there’s a giant Poetry Book Giveaway happening this month. The giant list of participating blogs (some on wordpress) is here:
http://ofkells.blogspot.com/2014/04/ways-to-celebrate-support-poets-presses.html
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https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_writing_challenge/poetry/
I am not a fan in writing poetry . . . huh. But here’s my VERY FIRST EVER poem! You know what they say, “First time for everything.” 😀
Thanks Daily Post for your awesome challenges!
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Ugh! Stupid me! here’s my website. dljordanwriting.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/the-daily-post-poetry-challenge/
I was supposed to put my website but i put the link to the dailypost challenge. Forgive me.
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here’s a poem http://bodhisattvaintraining.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/heres-a-poem/
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Why did the page go missing all of a sudden?
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Poem #1 and Poem #2 for the week from Allison & Kristen on Vagrant Contradictions:
Joshua Tree National Park, February 2014: http://wp.me/p4vWyk-1x
Our Inevitable Return: http://wp.me/p4vWyk-12
Visit with us and we will reciprocate! 🙂
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Yay for poetry! http://rarasaur.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/lasting-everlasting/
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My blog is mostly poems and also some random videos and other posts when I’m taking a break from the poems. I’m happy to see that there are many more people dedicating their blogs to poetry!
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Undoubtedly true! It sucks our life but its a sweet pain to hold for our life:)
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I love poetry =)
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YESSS, my favorite celebration of this month 😉 I posted a new poem on my blog!!
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Would be better if you just post the link here 🙂
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Robert Montgomery has me awestruck… Such a creative way to meld together two very personal forms of self-expression. I’d been searching for my own way… Perhaps I have not dug deep enough. Thank you for the inspiration Mr. Montgomery.
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how do you put a pingback on a post?
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Add link of this post to your post. It will automatically create a pingback here.
Hope it helps ^_^
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