Notes from One Writer to Another
2013 April PAD Challenge: Day 8 | Write a Poem a Day Until May | WritersDigest.com.
Instruction
From interior
chaos, as
unobtrusively
ordered as
families of
suns swirling
gradually
toward the dark
centers of their
common demise,
or elementary
particles somehow
achieving mass
within each
strand of DNA,
we will structure,
like a mirroring
glass tower,
erected from
an image
in an architect’s
mind.
Here’s my contribution for Day 6 of the Poem a Day Challenge. It draws from a strange childhood fascination–a small poster on a fence which I could read, but which seemed to make no sense at all. That fascination was, actually, an early manifestation of my interest in poetry–the multiple implications of words and the meanings that lurk among them.
2013 April PAD Challenge: Day 6 | Write a Poem a Day Until May | WritersDigest.com.
Post No Bills
The sign
on the
construction company’s
temporary fence
said “Post no bills.”
I could read
all the words
as I skipped past
and I read it
over and over,
so seemingly
simple, yet holding
so little sense.
My parents
muttered something
about advertisements,
but what did
Brill Cream or Babbo
have to do with
posts or bills?
They must have,
I thought,
misunderstood me
again, and I mulled
what adult secrets could
be hidden so out there
in the open, among
little words.
This is Two-fer Tuesday on Robert Brewer’s blog. Today’s assignment is to write a poem suggested by the word bright, the word dark, or both.
2013 April PAD Challenge: Day 2 | Write a Poem a Day Until May | WritersDigest.com.
Here’s mine:
Bright
Blinding
emergence
from pulsing
red heat
beating darkness
unconscious
junction unaware
of unseen realities
of separation
promising brightness
at the end of
a pressing tunnel
blinking screaming
at bloody murder
of beginning
and all blinding
divisions gradually
emerging
from icy light.
This morning on Twitter I discovered that Arthur A. Levine’s blog is back. Today’s entry is about a newspaper he started while he was still in high school.
From Fizzygrrl (couldn’t find her name), here’s a terrific post about some literary agents to follow. (Also check out Part One).
My Twitterville Agents-to-Follow Cheat-Sheet PART 2!!! – Fizzygrrl.
Here’s another great literary agent blog. The latest post is about managing your image online. Good to think about.
Here’s some more information and inspiration from the Query Tracker Blog. This helpful issue links to several useful articles, including one about NaNoWriMo.
QueryTracker Blog: Publishing Pulse for Friday, November 2, 2012.
Here’s my first poem for this month’s challenge. Poets, add your own on the blog. At the end of the month, you will have a chapbook. See the blog for submission details and to read the work of other participants.
2012 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 1 | Matches Poem | WritersDigest.com
OH! Mr. Brewer is having his Poem a Day November chapbook challenge after all! I thought he had moved it to April. Poets, take heed, do not feel left out of the NaNoWriMo fun. Zip over to the poetry blog at the Writers Digest site and check out the fantastic daily idea. You can catch up on the previous ones, too. It’s not too late. At the end of the month, you will have a chapbook, which you can submit. See you there.
2012 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 1 | Matches Poem | WritersDigest.com.
It’s day one of NaNoWriMo, PiBoIMo, and Art Every Day. To celebrate, before I sign off to write on my Alphasmart, here’s a great creativity site from the UK.
Good luck everybody on your 1700 words, picture book idea, or artwork for the day.
One Way to Wonder 
We’re a match,
the two of us,
you with your
temper and me
too tempered
you with your
careful pacing
and me
with my wild
last minute
dashes.
We’re a match
of seeming
opposites, seamed
so closely together
that sometimes
there is no space
between us
like sky
and sea at
sunset on the
Pacific.
copyright Linda Armstrong, November 3, 2012. All rights reserved.