Hey Folks,

It’s time to get the message out. Napowrimo is really fun, right?

Today I want you to look at the Acrostic form of poetry.
If spies wrote poems, they’d write acrostic poems.
My challenge to you is take a long word or sentence and write one of these poems.
It’s pretty easy when you have the title to [...]

by Marc Warring

This is the liquid of little deaths.
This is the black blood of guilt and depression.
We the sailors on this black ocean,
Drowning under it’s sweltering height
We are the navigators. Lose our maps, and break our sextants.
We are the navigators. Burn our charts and smash our compass
We have lost our minds or souls,
or the knowledge [...]

by Dan Mcnamara

Deirdre.
Deirdre has Erlin syndrome. The cone of her eye is skewed, slanted. Afflicted.
She can’t read more than one word at a time because the ones she’s not focused on spin at
random through the page, and the one she is focusing on is often blurry. Without her filtered sunglasses she might as well be [...]

by Ric and Sam

Ric and I work in a large office.
We both believe it is driving us crazy
To pass the time, and try to retain our souls,
We took a hint from the Movie Fight club
Below (reversed for your ease) is one of many strings of Haiku’s

—–Original Message—–
From: Richard Sando
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 [...]

my only friend… a test…