“Photomarathon 18: Memories” by Joyce Kaes (https://www.flickr.com/photos/103189636@N05/)
Halfway through the month, how are you doing with the NaPoWriMo challenge? For those who need it, here’s a refresher: the National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo) challenge is to write 30 poems in 30 days. Ideally, a poet would write one a day, but many people find it’s easier to catch up with more poems on less busy days. Wild Violet has been providing daily prompts, but you can find a lot more information at the official site for the challenge, NaPoWriMo.net.
At Wild Violet, we have been going through the alphabet to come up with prompts. It is in no way necessary to make prominent use of that day’s letter in the poem.
Now for today’s prompt: “M” is for “Memory.” Write a poem based on a prominent memory from childhood, your teenage years, your young adulthood or any other time in your life. Make good use of detail in order to help that moment come alive to the reader. Alternatively, you could write about the lack of memories, or a memory that has been repressed. If you take this approach, remember to make the poem as specific as possible, in order to avoid the temptation towards being too abstract.
Feel free to share your poem (or a link to your poem) in the comments.
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