Category: NaPoWriMo

Night Hunter
Silently, on soft feathers
stroking the darkness
detached from sound,
like the echo of a cloud.
A single strike,
the bloody talon closes round
the struggling morsel.

Linda Rushby 4 April 2021

Not sure whether I’m going to do this every day – but at the end of my normal blogging, I came up with this:

Decided to share it here.

Web

Caught in the web,
pull one thread
and who knows what
you might untangle?
Sliding down
into the rabbit hole.

Linda Rushby 1 April 2021

April is NaPoWriMo, short for National Poetry Writing Month – though these days, like NaNoWriMo, it’s an international event.

It was started in 2003 by American poet Maureen Thorson, who decided to write a poem a day and post them on her blog. Since then, poets from all over the world have taken up the challenge, and poems spring up every April faster than daffodils in Wordsworth’s garden at Grasmere.

To find out more, you can visit the NaPoWriMo website. But to join in, all you need to do is write a poem and post it somewhere – on a blog, on Facebook, wherever the fancy takes you.

Share it with the world, get out there, and support your fellow poets by reading their contributions.

You can read my contribution here.