I am challenging myself to do something I did three years ago (oh good god, was it really three years? Now I feel old). Back in 2009, I was a senior in college, and I was having the time of my life. It was about this time that I remembered an old rhyme. It goes something like this. Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November. All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February alone, And that has twenty-eight days clear, And twenty-nine in each leap year. (wikipedia) This floated into my head just before September started, and so I decided that I would turn it into “Thirty Poems Hath September” and write one new poem for each day of the month. It was kind of like Nanowrimo before I knew that Nano existed (it was a dark time in my life, despite my earlier statement). At any rate, I composed a LOT of poems that year, mostly during the medieval literature class that V and I were taking at the time (sorry, Dr. Napierkowski-no offense to you or your class, that was just when I usually felt the most inspired). Some of them were complete nonsense. Many of them were haiku, because I would realize I only had five minutes left in the day to write a poem. Some of them were really good. Regardless, the idea got me to write, and to focus on some creative energy that was otherwise fairly elusive. I would recommend you try it. Thirty Poems Hath September. Get ready.
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Sounds like a fun idea. Haiku were always my poems of choice when I was bored in class, so I have pages of sketchbooks and notebooks covered in them. Good luck.
Thank you, Angela! Haiku are fun poems to write, especially when trying to keep with classical forms of poems. I’m looking into writing a sonnet or two this time around as well.
I’ve done something very similar to that several times. I blogged a new poem every day (or tried to) until a reach a hundred. It’s fun!
It’s effort, but it’s a great exercise in creativity.
Sounds like fun! Are you allowed to cheat and write two on one day, and none the next?
That would usually happen, just because of my school and work schedules at the time. Now I shouldn’t have any conflict, but I’m still fairly flexible with the one a day thing, as long as I get through my thirty.
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