Day 19. If you've been following me this month, you'll know that I've been quoting old blog intros for each day. There was a cool Day 19 intro from 2013 that I won't quote here now, but do go to that actual day and take a look . . . here. It's pretty fun: 19 is a centered triangular number and a centered hexagonal number! Okay, on to today's prompts. Maureen Thorson’s NaPoWriMo suggestion: “Finally, here’s our prompt – optional, as always! This one comes to us from Moist Poetry Journal, which posted this prompt by K-Ming Chang a while back: What are you haunted by, or what haunts you? Write a poem responding to this question. Then change the word haunt to hunt.” Robert Lee Brewer’s Poem-a-Day suggestion: “For today's prompt, pick an emotion, make it the title of your poem, and write your poem. Possible emotions might include happy, sad, grumpy, angry, scared, and more.” As usual, I'm combining the two prompts. That haunting/hunting bit in the Thorson prompt is amazingly tricky, but I think I solved it by only doing it once. The Brewer prompt is actually trickier, I found. I knew that the emotion I wanted was something like unease or disquiet, but those didn't make for a good title. So I forged ahead with the poem and, at one point, I was considering the word whistle as a rhyme for invisible, and in a moment the title exerted itself. Today's poem is another curtal sonnet, rhymed abcabc dbcdc in strict 10-syllable lines.
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I am enjoying these sonnets a lot. I had issues with haunting/hunting too but I just changed the former to the latter. I might change one back though.
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