Psycho Kitty Poetry

As a reward for my first bingo on my rejection letter bingo card, I bought myself: _{(assoc. links)} the Magnetic Poetry Original Kit, Metal Easel Board, and the Psycho Kitty Magnetic Word Kit. I had a lot of fun playing with them yesterday. Here is one of my creations:

I also set up a new mirrorworld, and played with simple shapes to create the expression of psycho kitties:

The Prompts

NaPoWriMo: “write a poem titled “Wish You Were Here” that takes its inspiration from the idea of a postcard. Consistent with the abbreviated format of a postcard, your poem should be short, and should play with the idea of travel, distance, or sightseeing.

PAD Challenge: Write a luck poem

These prompts are great for today. Though I’m still not feeling 100%, tonight at midnight is the end of my fiftieth year, so today feels like a good day to look at my trip pictures and read what I wrote in Puerto Vallarta.

I received this faux postcard with my bill at a restaurant at Marina Vallarta. I thought it was a clever reminder and ask for a review. So I used this with my magnet poetry to make my poem today. The poem is a luck poem through the word selection of the magnets from the box.

Today’s Poem

Wish You Were Here

Poetry MFA Week 1 Review

Writing: So far, so good. I’ve definitely been writing at least forty-five minutes a day. I’ve been journaling, doing writing exercises, and writing poem drafts. I’ve been trying writing in different places at different times. One thing I wanted to try that I haven’t done is writing right before bed. I’ve done most of my writing first thing in the morning, and in the afternoon, so I’ll focus on writing before bed this coming week.

Reading: It was fun that the second Poets&Writers issue I studied had an interview with Ada Limόn about her collection the Carrying _{(assoc. link)}, so the A to Z Challenge fit into getting to know some background of my chosen poet. I read my selected poem, “Anticipation,” aloud many different ways, exploring the poet’s choice to break the poem into very short lines.

I’ll talk about the week two instructions and expectations tomorrow.

How’s your NaPoWriMo and/or A to Z Blogging Challenge going? Did you have a good week? Have some challenges creep up that tested your resolve like my day two internet outage? If so I hope it was short-lived, and you didn’t get derailed.

Happy Poetry Month!
See you tomorrow