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Monday 2 April 2018

NaPoWriMo2018 Day 2



The second challenge I received was:
Spring - heart awakening after dark days 

Which provoked a Haiku:

White evaporates
golden rays penetrations
bring forth spring's magic

Which mutated into a tanka:

White evaporates
golden rays penetrations
bring forth spring's magic
and the new seasons passion
cloaks darkness with verdant life.

Then I read http://www.napowrimo.net/ day 2 prompt "we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that plays with voice. For example, you might try writing a stanza that recounts something in the first-person, followed by a stanza recounting the same incident in the second-person, followed by a stanza that treats the incident from a third-person point of view" and this poured out:

My fingers brush the ice from earth and limbs,
I stir the sluggish sap within your core,
My presence makes the songbirds change their hymns;
I breathe the joy of life; and passions soar.



Your touch warms frozen clay to fertile loam.
You cause my sap to pulse with rapid growth
Then make each songbird praise its new built home.
You banish winters weariness and sloth.


The breath of spring melts winters icy hold;
It draws the rising sap to fresh sprung leaves.
At dawn the chorus chirps its anthem bold
And life rejoices in the spell it weaves.

2 comments:

  1. I love this! So clever to think of using inanimate objects for your voices.

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