NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 17

Posted on April 17, 2024 by Mary Beth Frezon

Sunny and rain. Another April day at the edge of New England. Lately I keep thinking – I enjoy writing haiku, writing in such a small format, trying to snag a moment or an image, but I can’t pretend to be Japanese. Perhaps this is where the idea of American Sentences comes from. I cannot write to satisfy the ancient cultural ideas of a culture that’s not my own. So, bear with me in my haiku/senryu practice.

no cherry blossoms
i am not japanese
daffodil haiku

another day
another two pink lines
more isolation

easy to stay home
a gift of the pandemic
welcome lesson

coffee and take out
chili, spicy and so hot
fragrant car ride home

In other news, I let the two young cats rummage through a laundry bag of laundered toys and balls. This amused them for quite a while and then I heard them move through the house with new jingly noises. I was surprised to find that one of their choices was this big plushy racoon. Only the head is stuffed. This was not just pulled out of the bag, but carried all the way upstairs to the bedroom!

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NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 16

Posted on April 16, 2024 by Mary Beth Frezon

Feeling better! Today was Day One of no temperature (with no meds) so this is good!

Beautiful day! This is good too! Went out and sat awhile with the sun and daffodils!

Tomorrow is Haiku Day within Poetry Month, so start your engines! Today’s prompt at NaPoWriMo HQ was to “write a poem in which you closely describe an object or place, and then end with a much more abstract line that doesn’t seemingly have anything to do with that object or place, but which, of course, really does.” This is as close as I could get.

finding the edges
the dark wine smoothly slips round
red meets transparent

no color edges
just whatever’s reflected
lips seal around it

cool sides now warming
edges hard by design
keeping it all in

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NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 15

Posted on April 15, 2024 by Mary Beth Frezon

Little bit going on in the world today, but the sun was out and my head was a little clearer so I went out to sit in the sun, with my paint kit!

sitting in the sun
while the world is full of news
and daffodils

three yellow paints
gradually become a
page of daffodils

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NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 14

Posted on April 14, 2024 by Mary Beth Frezon

The NaPoWriMo prompt was to write using anaphora, a repeated word or phrase at the beginning of each line of a poem. When I read it ‘don’t forget the rain’ popped into my head and I guess I let it rest there. Been a gray rainy day here in downtown East BeeJeesus and that’s about all there is to report.

don’t forget the rain
don’t forget the rain makes things grow
don’t forget that autumn comes
don’t forget that things dies in season
don’t forget that it gets cold
don’t forget that frost settles in
don’t forget that winter comes
don’t forget that snow covers the garden
don’t forget that everything is waiting
don’t forget that everything is waiting
don’t forget that the world will warm again
don’t forget that spring will come again
don’t forget the rain.

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NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 13

Posted on April 13, 2024 by Mary Beth Frezon

Not sure what the prompt was today but my focus was mainly my trusty thermos. It’s not my first thermos. I’ve had several that have travelled to work and even to Wales with me because there’s nothing quite like being able to pause for a hot cuppa. I’ve learned the pleasure of making a thermos when I’m sick and being able to have a hot cup in bed without the tea-making activities. So my thermos is getting its moment of spotlight these days. Worth every penny. It’s not a damn travel mug. It’s a Thermos®. And it keeps things VERY hot. And it turns out you can actually pour without removing the stopper all the way (oh, the things you learn along the way!)

another day sick
another cup of hot tea
cooling

making myself
a thermos of hot tea
for the afternoon

boil up the kettle
thinking of the endless cups
at grandma’s table

And while outside righting and filling the feeders, I noticed some new developments in the front garden.

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