Four April centos: No. 3

My third cento may be titled “Bad sad mad” but that doesn’t mean these 24 closing thoughts of the month are any worse than the rest. They simply gravitated together to create something that we all need to purge from time to time. When April was over and done, your poems didn’t leave me alone.

Last April photos

Another April is gone and I’m still dreaming poems. But today just a variety of last photos. Let’s start with the last two taken with my camera. Amore called me out and told me to bring my camera. I was relieved that it was just this traveller: Next, here are the last two taken with

Day 30: No debate

Let’s finish off April with a (non)debateable poem, twenty images from where I wrote poems this month, and a guy I’d like you to meet. Prompt 30: Write a palinode – a poem in which you retract a view or sentiment expressed in an earlier poem. For example, you might pick a poem you drafted

Day Four & April 2022

April is a special month, not just because of our poems. Here are twenty views from last year’s April for my Calendar and one poem about it. Prompt 4: Today, let’s try writing triolets. A triolet is an eight-line poem. All the lines are in iambic tetrameter. Beyond this, there is a tight rhyme scheme

Day 11 & April 2021

Today I look back a year and show you last April in twenty images for my Calendar series, and in the poem talk to a giant floating island of plastics, as one does. Prompt 11: “Following up on yesterday’s love poem, I have for you another deceptively simple challenge. Today, I’d like to challenge you