Today is the last day of National Poetry Month. This is the first time I’ve participated in a writing challenge like this, and a challenge it has been. Whether or not any draft I’ve written this month is worth further development remains to be seen, but even if none is, I think that the practice will yield only positive results in a more general sense.
The last prompt is “write a fade away poem. I’ll let you decide how to interpret what a fade away poem might cover.”
“Death, an Echo”
As I stand at the edge
of his open grave, I hear
his voice from within and
know that he ceases not.
10 National Poetry Month Activities
April PAD Challenge: Day 1 “Scenes Shot in Super 8″
April PAD Challenge: Day 2 “Adobe Café”
April PAD Challenge: Day 3 “Confession Booth”
April PAD Challenge: Day 4 “100% Juice”
April PAD Challenge: Day 5 “Uncle Harry”
April PAD Challenge: Day 6 “Hide ‘n’ Seek”
April PAD Challenge: Day 7 “Political Discourse”
April PAD Challenge: Day 8 “Heart 2.0″
April PAD Challenge: Day 9 “Yoga Class”
April PAD Challenge: Day 10 “Holly Bushes”
April PAD Challenge: Day 11 “Spring”
April PAD Challenge: Day 12 “Something Wrong”
April PAD Challenge: Day 13 “Tough Luck”
April PAD Challenge: Day 14 “Sundays in Oklahoma”
April PAD Challenge: Day 15 “Persona”
April PAD Challenge: Day 16 “There’s Been a Mistake”
April PAD Challenge: Day 17 “To Boldly Go”
April PAD Challenge: Day 18 “Watermelon”
April PAD Challenge: Day 19 “Her Bra”
April PAD Challenge: Day 20 “Let’s Remain”
April PAD Challenge: Day 21 “Vast Universe”
April PAD Challenge: Day 22 “Judge Not”
April PAD Challenge: Day 23 “A Valediction Forbidding Morning”
April PAD Challenge: Day 24 “Memory”
April PAD Challenge: Day 25 “Tennis”
April PAD Challenge: Day 26 [wolf haiku]
April PAD Challenge: Day 27 “The Trouble is Within”
April PAD Challenge: Day 28 “Proxima Centauri”
April PAD Challenge: Day 29 “The Dance”
Congratulations on getting through the month! That’s a great accomplishment. I hope some of these develop further because I think there are some gems here.