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April! It's National Poetry Month again! Poets around the world attempt a poem a day and I will, too. Join in if you've got a notion to do so.
National Poetry Month 2026 Poem #16
THE NIGHT IS YOUNG
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For the 18th Poem of #NaPoWriMo2026 / #NaPoGenMo2026, the #HydraVideoSynth code is written as a Tanka
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day 16 of national poetry month poem by tophie called "roadways"; it reads as follows: stretching long, spreading wide, sprawling onward like a single, endless, exhausting web— for they are all one monster; merely named segments that even continents cannot break. direction, so called, is a trick: we just have places to be; you can drive “along” as easily as perpendicular (which is which?) dead ends, so called, are just jokes for the mind: for there’s always another way; the choice remains yours—take a seat or turn around, no matter! powerlessness, so called, is a sick ruse: we built these things and we can break them down; the strictures, so perceived, cannot hold us back for long.
today's practice poem wasn't so hard, actually! 🥰 thank goodness, there's hope i'll be able to catch up that way, lmaooo
anyway... enjoy!
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A Sixteenth Regretful Limerick for #NaPoWriMo2026
I regret I've not spent much more timePutting words into meter and rhyme.In it, I take great joy,Have since I was a boy,And I feel that the lack is a crime. And a good time was had by all.Photo by seymasungr on Pexels.com Fewer days remain than…
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Text: 16.4.2026 - Graceless Nothing you do every day is graceful. This month, I’m making myself write graceless poetry, inefficient, meatball poetry, bucket loads of wasted words, bulked out with extra syllables, first-thought-least-thought poetry, pithy Instagram nothingness, banal, didactic, honest; all these abstractions I deny the solidity they’re begging for. I let them float untethered.
The prompt for today's #napowrimo poem came from @promptsbyjasmine on Instagram - 'Graceless'
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Day 16 of #NaPoWriMo2026 🌸
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Color+Symbols
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17th Poem of #NaPoWriMo2026 / #NaPoGenMo2026, the #GamePoem Designed in #FlickGame & Written Thru a #Haiku
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For the 16th Poem of #NaPoWriMo2026 / #NaPoGenMo2026, the #HydraVideoSynth code is written as a Tanka
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#napowrimo #napowrimo2026 #poem #poetry #napowrimoday15 #sun #stars #feelings #emotions #sound
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Text: Half-Jewishly I exist half-Jewishly. My hair curls inconsistently. I digest dairy intolerantly. My diet is kosher occasionally.
Text continues: I learn Yiddish Duo-Lingually. My anxiety comes intergenerationally. I enter rooms apologetically. I perform Jewishness Ashkenormatively. I observe the holidays ambivalently.
Text continues: I say the prayers phonetically. I read the news complicitly. I dissect myself excessively. I identify ambiguously. I sit in narratives inconveniently.
Sometimes a #napowrimo poem is dense and important. Sometimes it's just mucking about with adverbs.
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tophie's day 14 poem for the national poetry month, titled "typist"; it reads as follows i’ve found typing poetry on typewriters to be pretty terrible, honestly. the clicky-clacks are certainly satisfying (as is the hum of an electric in waiting), but what if you make a mistake? what if it all goes sideways, the white-out spills, or you run out of ideas? i used to own so many of those anachronisms—staunch, splendid, silly. maybe 5? at least 4, certainly 4 or more. they’ve all wandered off, however; many had names, but i’ve forgotten most. that fabulous turquoise electric was nameless, poor teague (left behind by mistake) was not. my last was my first—desdemona. my grandmother’s college companion: all black paint and art deco mystery, a delicate “remington noiseless.” my mother’s got it for now, unless someone’s thrown it out, which would, honestly, hurt more than i’d think.
a black remington deluxe noiseless portable typewriter is shown
so, this is a day late but i'm (still) trying to not be upset with myself about either perfectionism or "falling behind" on the challenge. mixed results so far. for example: i've left this in arial instead of my usual baskerville to remind myself it's just a draft
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A Regretfully Taxing Limerick for #NaPoWriMo2026
The reckoning now has arrived.I like to think that I've survived.I've told quite a fewHow much they have due,Figures I've sadly derived. It's an older form, sir, but it checks out.Photo by Mark Youso on Pexels.com Half-done is not all done, and I'm…
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Day 15 of #NaPoWriMo2026 ❤️🌌
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prompt: incorporate a song lyric.
credit for starter lines: olivia dean — “a couple minutes.”
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MicroNoises
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For the 15th Poem of #NaPoWriMo2026 / #NaPoGenMo2026, the #HydraVideoSynth code is written as a Haiku
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Today for #napowrimo2026 we talk about #technology in #poetry. I looked at #openstreetmaphaiku
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Today’s poem both is, and isn’t..about teeth.
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Text: Title: Least Resistance I don't know. Maybe I am just a Luddite. Maybe the Luddites were right. Maybe trading imperfection for convenience has been killing us since… when? Since we chose to stay still and plant seeds and let priests and kings take their cut? I've never lived in a time without supermarkets, so I don't miss knowing the butcher by name. There are people living now who won't miss knowing everything they read was written by a person. I struggle to write about this without regressing to the cliched notion of the soul. So much of writing is trying to reroute a river by hand. The water flows down paths of least resistance, the desire path carved by everything you've heard already, so if you don’t concentrate, if you don't tear muscle and tendons wrenching against that gravity, you end up saying the exact thing that's been said a hundred times before. ‘There is nothing new under the sun.’
Text continues: So you grab clods of clay and jagged stones and try to carve out some shape that the water's never flowed before, but there's rocks you can't get out with your bare hands so you have to leave them there, so it's never shaped quite how you pictured it, and you're shivering and every joint is screaming and you've lost track of what you're even trying to do (like how I've lost track of this metaphor) and who has the energy for this anyway when everything moves so fast and it takes a thousand hours of digging to produce an inch of originality and it's so much easier to just let the river flow where it will. I don't know. I have to keep hoping the sick impulse to reroute that river, the insanity that makes us see the ugly, unintended shapes those impassable blocks force us to create and not just accept them but love them as proof that this was made by someone with the ability to want things, I have to hope that specific, human crazy will survive everything we're doing to cure ourselves.
Today's #napowrimo poem sprung off from the napowrimo.net prompt:
"Today, we challenge you to write a poem that similarly bridges (whether smoothly or not) the seeming divide between poetry and technological advances."
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A Fourteenth Regretful Limerick for #NaPoWriMo2026
The work I do is dragging on,And I think I might like to move onTo seek greener fieldsAnd find what each yields,But I know doing so would go wrong. Yes, I'm in mind of some other things.Photo by Meriu00e7 Tuna on Pexels.com The month continues, as…
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Day 14 of #NaPoWriMo2026 🪶
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IncrementalAudio
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14th Poem of #NaPoWriMo2026 / #NaPoGenMo2026 coded in #SonicPi
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