Na/GloPoWriMo2019 – Quilted Poetry

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End of April’s Na/GloPoWriMo poems

Posted on 3 May 2019 by Lizl

I have written two of the last three poems for NaPoWriMo 2019. Laid low by an infected wound, and just now feeling up to writing, again, three or four days into a seven-day script for antibiotics. I hope to add the third poem to this page sometime before the end of Friday.

as I slept, the sun
appeared and warmed the ground
I woke to tulips

Prompt from Na/GloPoWriMo, Day 29: Write a minimalist poem.

rocks steam haze
clouds obscure the sun
no starlight

too wet, sleeping on the ground
but all the trees have melted

Brewer’s prompt for Day 20: Write a dark poem.

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Awake at midnight

Posted on 3 May 2019 by Lizl

I have idled away my time, while waiting to take my next dose of medication on schedule. I have written one of the three poems I need to complete the 30 poems for April’s Na/GloPoWriMo challenge.

as I slept, the sun
appeared and warmed the ground
I woke to tulips

Prompt from Na/GloPoWriMo, Day 29: Write a minimalist poem.

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Day 27 Late-Season Snow #NaPoWriMo

Posted on 27 April 201927 April 2019 by Lizl

Thaddeus, caked with snow — Late Season Snowfall

Prompt: “Take one of your poems and, in three places, insert a parenthetical comment…” I used only this much of the prompt found at Cuyahoga County Public Library website.

late-spring storm
{by now, I shouldn’t feel surprise}
snow on puppy legs…face…tail
{how did he get snow plastered THERE?}
don’t sit in my lap!
{ah, well! there’s towels}

First published today on my Quiet Spaces Journal: Day 27 Late-Season Snow #NaPoWriMo

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Day 27 Late-Season Snow #NaPoWriMo

Posted on 27 April 201928 April 2019 by Lizl

cocker spaniel playing in the newly fallen April snow — Late-season Snow Storm

Prompt: “Take one of your poems and, in three places, insert a parenthetical comment…” I used only this much of the prompt found at Cuyahoga County Public Library website. Only three more days to go!

late-spring storm
{by now, I shouldn’t feel surprise}
snow on puppy legs…face…tail
{how did he get snow plastered THERE?}
don’t sit in my lap!
{ah, well! there’s towels}

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Day 26 | Everlasting Pause #NaPoWriMo

Posted on 26 April 201926 April 2019 by Lizl

Prompt for Day 26: Write 10 one- or two-line poems on one subject, however loosely related to the subject. Put them together, arranging and rearranging, and title them as one poem.

An Everlasting Pause

Only eternity lasts forever

              Be still and know

There are many mansions

              and the perfect one is set aside for you

Passage of time and distance of place…

              all is present in the Now

I cannot conceive of a moment of perfection

              that never ends or varies

One thing that puzzles me is whether eternity is

              a continuity, an instance of existence, or an object of art

Clarity persists in haunting the mind of the bemused

The eternal Here and Now overlooks the ebb and flow

              of distance and time, not counting minutes or the miles

Satisfaction is a state of mind independent

              of circumstances or the company we keep

Experiencing the tides of now, the gentle inflow and recession

              of being and not being

Hypnotized by sensation and waiting for the feeling

              to come again

Lost in the eternal pause between nothing more

              and everything

Originally published on my Quiet Spaces blog, HERE. I used irregular HTML codes, and so the format may not work, here. Will try to get a graphic representation to link to.

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Day 26: An Everlasting Pause #NaPoWriMo #GloPoWriMo

Posted on 26 April 2019 by Lizl

Prompt for Day 26: Write 10 one- or two-line poems on one subject, however loosely related to the subject. Put them together, arranging and rearranging, and title them as one poem.

An Everlasting Pause

Only eternity lasts forever

              Be still and know

There are many mansions

              and the perfect one is set aside for you

Passage of time and distance of place…

              all is present in the Now

I cannot conceive of a moment of perfection

              that never ends or varies

One thing that puzzles me is whether eternity is

              a continuity, an instance of existence, or an object of art

Clarity persists in haunting the mind of the bemused

The eternal Here and Now overlooks the ebb and flow

              of distance and time, not counting minutes or the miles

Satisfaction is a state of mind independent

              of circumstances or the company we keep

Experiencing the tides of now, the gentle inflow and recession

              of being and not being

Hypnotized by sensation and waiting for the feeling

              to come again

Lost in the eternal pause between nothing more

              and everything

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Day 25 Springtime Joy #GloPoWriMo #NaPoWriMo

Posted on 25 April 2019 by Lizl

tulips in the side garden — Joy in Springtime

warm winds and raindrops
filling up the tulip cups…
sliding down long leaves

Copyright © 2019-04-25, by Lizl Bennefeld.

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Day 24 : Just different #NaPoWriMo #GloPoWriMo

Posted on 24 April 2019 by Lizl

complete as me

i’m just me
not alone…but separate
a narrow focus

what goes wrong outside this room
does not change what i can do

Lizl Bennefeld, 2019-04-24

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Day 22. Transformation #NaPoWriMo

Posted on 23 April 201923 April 2019 by Lizl

Monday’s prompt words (from RonovanWrites Haiku weekly challenge) were action and friction:

action of raindrops
friction of waves on the shore
dry wind across stone

nature—micron by micron—
reshapes oceans and the land

dawn light scattered
trembling green-gold sparkles
dewdrops in the grass

Day 23, Waking Early #NaPoWriMo

Quote• Posted on 23 April 201923 April 2019 by Lizl

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Day 20 : Night’s Darkness #NaPoWriMo #Glo/NaPoWriMo

Posted on 23 April 2019 by Lizl

night’s soft cloak
sun’s lingering warmth
cloud-clad stars

summer’s breeze is redolent
with scents of sleeping flowers

Source: Day 20 : Night’s Darkness #NaPoWriMo #Glo/NaPoWriMo

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Day 20 : Night’s Darkness #NaPoWriMo #Glo/NaPoWriMo

Posted on 23 April 201923 April 2019 by Lizl

photoart by Elizabeth (Lizl) Bennefeld. All rights reserved. — Peonies

night’s soft cloak
sun’s lingering warmth
cloud-clad stars

summer’s breeze is redolent
with scents of sleeping flowers

Brewer’s prompt for Day 20: Write a dark poem.

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Transformation | #RonovanWrites #Haiku #NaPoWriMo

Posted on 22 April 201922 April 2019 by Lizl

raindrop splashing into water puddle — Raindrops

RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #250 Action&Friction

action of raindrops
friction of waves on the shore
dry winds across stone

nature—micron by micron—
reshapes oceans and the land

View my NaPoWriMo 2019 poem-a-day collection in progress at TheWrittenWord.net

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Day 21 – Easter Morning #NaPoWriMo #Glo/NaPoWriMo

Posted on 21 April 201921 April 2019 by Lizl

sunrise
cleansing rain
on the grass

Download free do whatever you want high-resolution photos from Jono Hislop at Unsplash.

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For Holy Saturday, #NaPoWriMo Day 19

Posted on 19 April 2019 by Lizl

First posted this evening on my Quilted Poetry blog.

sitting on a hill
leaning back against the tree
waiting for a sign

so long ago, the trembling
that still echoes through the Earth

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Day 19 | For Holy Saturday #NaPoWriMo

Posted on 19 April 201921 April 2019 by Lizl

bare tree branches, multiple trees

sitting on the hill
leaning back against a tree
waiting for a sign

so long ago, the trembling
that still echoes through the Earth

Copyright © 2019-04-19, by Lizl Bennefeld.

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Day 18: topics not discussed #NaNoWriMo

Posted on 18 April 2019 by Lizl

Very loosely based on the Day 18 prompt from the Cuyahoga County Public Library. I am not sure that I’ll go back to rework this after NaPoWriMo is over for this year. I do know that I do not write poetry in four-line stanzas.

‘topics not under discussion’

sometimes I turn around to see
as though from outside human space
the larger patterns…masked by lies

then my heart catches…forgets how to beat
and I find myself hoping that it won’t
remember…how to start itself again

in the longer run the gifts I wield
will make no lasting difference
all will die quietly…fade away in sleep

what I can achieve is to be present
in this moment, acknowledging each
thing that lives and care…until we’re dead

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Day 17: Saturday Matinee | #NaPoWriMo 2019

Posted on 17 April 2019 by Lizl

Inspired by Brewer’s POD prompt to write a reason poem and Permafrost, by Alastair Reynolds.

when the end does come
I will not be here to watch
the step off the cliff

documentaries portrayed
as funny children’s movies

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Day 16 – In Hiding: An Ode to Anonymity #NaPoWriMo

Posted on 16 April 201916 April 2019 by Lizl

‘An Ode to Anonymity’

I live underwater, away from all
there’s a turn in the river
I’m shadowed by its banks

the river’s in my mind
my mind safely sheltered, here…
here I’ll remain to the end of all time

Form: kimo and kimo, reversed

The complete Poem and and a larger version of the photograph (with credit) are on my Quiet Spaces Journal: Day 16 – In Hiding: An Ode to Anonymity #NaPoWriMo

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Day 16 – In Hiding: An Ode to Anonymity #NaPoWriMo

Posted on 16 April 2019 by Lizl

‘An Ode to Anonymity’

I live underwater, away from all
there’s a turn in the river
I’m shadowed by its banks

the river’s in my mind
my mind safely sheltered, here…
here I’ll remain to the end of all time

Form: kimo and kimo, reversed

Prompt from the Cuyahoga Library for Day 16.

Photo credit: See attachment page.

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Day 15: Two Poems #NaPoWriMo

Posted on 15 April 201918 April 2019 by Lizl

To a dead leaf, lost on concrete

I found myself considering the sadness of leaves and seeds that fall where they can neither decompose nor have the opportunity to germinate and grow. And so, on a (serious) whimsy, I promised the residue on the garage floor that when I was finished with taking their photographs, there, I would gather up them all and return them to the outdoors, where they may decay, or sprout, and live again.

I cry for the leaves on the garage floor
thrown out in new plastic bags
not renewing the soil

Hey, tone it down, there!
Pitch-and-Toss ain’t meant to be
no blame shoutin’ match.

“Pitch-and-Toss” is a game of chance.

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Day 14 : Rain Showers | #NaPoWriMo

Posted on 14 April 201919 April 2019 by Lizl

unlooked-for rainbows

after clouds whose showers bathed

path and air…and me

A “view” poem, Brewer, day 13, Poetic Asides: Writers Digest.

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Sweet Dreams! #NaPoWriMo Day 13

Posted on 13 April 2019 by Lizl

Hay(na)Ku, a new form by Eileen R. Tabio, has one word in the first line, two in the second and three in the third, with each word having as many syllables as you wish. Try one! (Cuyahoga Library Writers Center, Day 10)

tiptoeing
midnight approaches
puppies fast asleep

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Day 12: Summer Memories | NaPoWriMo2019

Posted on 12 April 2019 by Lizl

Also published on my WordPress blog, The Moments Between.

collage of wildflower photos — Summer Memories

pictures tucked away at end of summer…
promises of winter’s end

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Day 11: Drawn Towards Joy

Posted on 11 April 2019 by Lizl

This poem was posted also on my Quilted Poetry blog.

new, green leaves on a cotoneaster tree in our back yard — New Growth

drawn towards joy
changing of the seasons
gentle warmth
quiet melt of winter’s snow
springtime’s gift of sun and rain

As I write this poem, I am listening to an ongoing spring blizzard that has delivered over seven inches of snow, so far today. We expect another five to seven inches before the storm ends. The tulips and daffodils long since emerged from the warm, damp grown. I am trusting the new snow to protect them from the wind and icy rains still to come.

I have looked at photos from previous years, and April snows are not that unexpected. Still, it is strange to be confined to house and outbuildings by snow drifts, when at the beginning of the week, I was outside barefoot and without a jacket.

barefoot at the edge of the fading snowdrift in the back yard — Barefoot Weather, 2019-04-08

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Day 11: Towards Joy | #NaPoWriMo2019, Na/GloWriMo2019

Posted on 11 April 201912 April 2019 by Lizl

drawn towards joy
changing of the seasons
gentle warmth

quiet melt of winter’s snow
springtime’s gift of sun and rain

This poem was also posted to my Quiet Spaces blog: The Written Word at Home.

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April’s Blow | #NaPoWriMo2019, Na/GloWriMo2019

Posted on 10 April 201910 April 2019 by Lizl

March comes in as a lion … and April buries the road by which it leaves.

January’s cold
is sharp but somehow peaceful
unlike April’s storms

like cyclones over water
Spring adds fury to its snow

Source: April’s Blow on my Quiet Spaces Blog

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April’s Blow | #NaPoWriMo2019 / #GloPoWriMo2019

Posted on 10 April 201910 April 2019 by Lizl

emerging garden fence — The Emerging Fence, 2019-04-03

March comes in as a lion and … April buries the road by which it leaves

January’s cold
is sharp but somehow peaceful
unlike April’s storms

like cyclones over water
Spring adds fury to its snow

Please also visit my Quilted Poetry blog on WordPress.

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Tucked in | #NaPoWriMo2019, Na/GloWriMo2019

Posted on 9 April 20199 April 2019 by Lizl

after sunset

ice reforms on quiet waters

tucking in the warm

Source: Tucked in | #NaPoWriMo2019, Na/GloWriMo2019

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Tucked in | #NaPoWriMo2019, Na/GloWriMo2019

Posted on 9 April 2019 by Lizl

after sunset
ice reforms on quiet waters
tucking in the warm

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Day 8 – Use the kimo poetic form

Posted on 8 April 2019 by Lizl

the remnants of a snowdrift in the front yard, bereathing its last — Melting Snowdrift (2019-04-08)

Write a kimo, an Israeli form that tends to capture a moment (like a photograph in words), using three unrhymed lines with syllable count 10, 7, 6. (Cuyahoga County Public Library)

ice crystals scattered in a shrinking patch
glistening in the sunlight…
exhaling their last breaths

My first poem for this Monday was written for the Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge, and can be found on my Quilted Poetry blog: River’s Crest.

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Day 7 – Words Fail Me | #NaPoWriMo2019

Posted on 7 April 20197 April 2019 by Lizl

Prompt: Write a nonet, a nine-line poem, with the first line containing nine syllables, the next eight, so on until the last line has one syllable. (Cuyahoga County Public Library)

Words Fail Me

Sometimes the shape of each letter is
more compelling than words’ meanings.
Playing tricks on sore eyes,
they duck and vanish
into the mist
of fatigue.
Fail to
speak.

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Day 6 | When evening turns to night #NaPoWriMo2019

Posted on 6 April 20197 April 2019 by Lizl

Prompt: Describe what you hear.

from the darkness
birds call out their parting songs
the day is done…now
rest

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April 5: Ice and willow leaves | #NaPoWriMo

Posted on 5 April 201916 April 2019 by Lizl

ice underfoot
branches bare but for last fall’s leaves
grass of greens and browns
slow turning of the seasons
while nature holds its breath

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A Haiku and a Memorate #NaPoWriMo #NaGloPoWriMo

Posted on 4 April 2019 by Lizl

pinetree across the way, mid-March 2019 — Tree in Winter

puppies by my feet
pine trees swayed by rising winds
and yet…stillness

Prompt: Write an Animal poem. (I think this prompt is yesterday’s.)

Mother’s Approval
a memorate

asleep, I saw her walk
toward me from the new workshop
she smiled and passed

waking, I recalled that she
had died before we built it

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Walk in the Garden #NaPoWriMo

Posted on 3 April 20193 April 2019 by Lizl

a walk in the garden
snow deeper than me, head and tail…
no rabbits

Also posted on The Moments Between.

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April 2: Quietly

Posted on 2 April 201930 June 2022 by Lizl

Prompt from Brewer at Writer’s Digest:

And today is actually a special day: Two for Tuesday! Pick one prompt or use both…your choice! (1) Write a worst case poem. What’s the worst that could happen? (2) Write a best case poem. Take the worst and reverse it!