NaPoWrimo  challenge prompt for Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

TODAYS PROMPT:   Write a poem about playing a board game or a game of cards.

Please don’t every say what the game is or use something that would tell people immediately what the game is  (like Boardwalk or using the phrase checkmate).

You can identify the game in the last two lines of the poem or not at all.   The game could be played while something is going on and be the setting of the poem rather than the focus of it.  If you want to up the challenge… write it as a form poem of your choosing.

The root of the word Poetry is from the Greek   ποιέω (poieō), “‘I
make’”). , poiesis, meaning a “making” or ‘creation’

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Poetry is Everything

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Christopher J. Jarmick is a Seattle based Author, very active in the Northwest Poetry Community.  His latest book is called  IGNITION; Poem Starters, Septolets, Statements & Double Dog Dares. Click on it to find out more about it.

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What? 2/3 rds done?   Another milestone.  Keep up the great work, writing challenging yourself, posting, and sticking to it.  Feels good.  Be proud of yourself.

Now take a walk!!!!

TODAYS April 2oth, 2010 PROMPT:

TAKE A WALK  through your house,  through the park,  through a museum,  through your work.  Describe this walk in a poem from the perspective of a young (very literate) child.

Happy writing !!!!

The root of the word Poetry is from the Greek   ποιέω (poieō), “‘I
make’”). , poiesis, meaning a “making” or ‘creation’

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Poetry is Everything

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Christopher J. Jarmick is a Seattle based Author, very active in the Northwest Poetry Community.  His latest book is called  IGNITION; Poem Starters, Septolets, Statements & Double Dog Dares. Click on it to find out more about it.

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Want to Meet other Poets? Join the Community

Congratulations on sticking to the challenge of writing a poem every day in the month of April.  If you write a poem every day, or every other day, if you are just joining the madness. . . congratulations.  You can also catch up at any time and write poems for days you’ve skipped.

Remember to post your poems.  Comment and link to them please.

Here’s your suggested writing prompt for April 8th, 2010.

DAY 8  NaPoWriMo PROMPT
Shakespeare is famous for writing many, many things– some have even become commonly used phrases.   So use at least 2 of the more than 135 phrases Shakespeare takes credit for making famous in a poem.  You can use many more if you would like (try 14 perhaps?)    You’ll find a list of them right here: SHAKESPEARE PHRASES cut and paste into your browser if needed

I’ll post what I’ve come up with tomorrow.

Happy writing.

Christopher J. Jarmick is a Seattle based Author, very active in the Northwest Poetry Community.  His latest book is called  IGNITION; Poem Starters, Septolets, Statements & Double Dog Dares. Click on it to find out more about it.

Chris was the 20th member and the 1st to set up a Blog page on this site, last year during April’s NaPoWriMo.  He’s also doing Script Frenzy (writing at least 100 pages of a Script) this month.   He’s got many challenging prompts lined up for the rest of April ..

Nolan choked on a piece of food Friday at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, according to a statement from his family carried in the Irish media. The hospital confirmed his death Saturday.

“Christopher Nolan was a gifted writer who attained deserved success and acclaim throughout the world for his work,” Irish President Mary McAleese said in a statement, adding that his achievements were “all the more remarkable given his daily battle with cerebral palsy.”

Nolan published a volume of poems and short stories entitled Dam Burst of Dreams in 1981 when he was 15.

His second book, an autobiography told in the third-person entitled Under the Eye of the Clock , was published when he was 22. It was awarded the illustrious Whitbread Book of the Year award in 1988. The book was later adapted for the stage by Michael Scott and performed as Torchlight and Lazer Beams.

In 1999, his novel The Banyan Tree , which chronicles the life of Westmeath woman Minnie O’Brien, was published to critical acclaim.

More of this story here:
• Christopher Nolan, Irish novelist, dies at 43 – TODAY: Book news- msnbc.com.

• Irish author Christopher Nolan dies – The Irish Times – Fri, Feb 20, 2009.

With Lloyd Bridges

Dorothy Bridges, a poet, widow of “Sea Hunt” actor Lloyd Bridges and matriarch of the acting family that includes sons Jeff and Beau, died Monday. She was 93.

Bridges died of natural causes at her home in the Holmby Hills area of Los Angeles, family spokeswoman Jean Sievers said.

Born Dorothy Simpson and sometimes credited as Dorothy Dean,  on Sept. 19, 1915, in Worcester, Mass., she was married to Lloyd Bridges for 60 years, until his death in 1998. The two met while performing in a play at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dorothy Bridges later appeared in a handful of movies and an episode of “Sea Hunt” with her husband, whom she called Bud.

At the age of 89, she published the memoir “You Caught Me Kissing.”

She also coached her children, according to an obituary from the family.

Bridges wrote poetry for five decades. In 2005, at age 89, she published “You Caught Me Kissing: A Love Story.” It included a collection of Valentine’s Day poems she wrote to her husband each year, a practice she continued after his death.

She is survived by sons Beau and Jeff; daughter Lucinda; 11 grandchildren including actors Jordan, Casey, Dylan and Emily; two great-grandchildren and a brother.

Her Poetry can be seen at

http://www.dorothybridges.com/

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