NaPoWriMo Day Nine: Things

A List of Things That Ease the Pain of You Being Gone:














heidi
written: 4/9/19 for:

Okay, so maybe that's kind of a cheat, but maybe I'm a cheater.

NaPoWriMo Day Eight: Naughty Puppy

happy dog munches
don't you eat my shoe
another footwear fatality


heidi
written: 4/8/19 for:

While I was trying to write a poem using slang as per today's prompt, my Sofie came into the room with one of my shoes that I forgot to put away. And so, a poem was born.

NaPoWriMo Day Seven: Not Therapy

poetry isn't therapy
mine is regurgitation, spewing out
putrid, emotional toxins


heidi
written: 4/7/19 for:

What the hell? That seemed to have come out of the blue? You'd never know that I am really hungry and trying to get through and catch up so that I can go get some lunch. Sheesh.

NaPoWriMo Day Six: If Only

if
if only
if only I had
if only I had taken you

one
     day
         earlier

if
if only
if only I had
if only I had done that

would
would you
would you be here

with me

now?


heidi
written: 4/7/19 for

The prompt for day six was to write a poem about the if's. I only have one huge one that lives with me every day right now. 

NaPoWriMo Day Five: Birthday

my world changed
12 years ago today with
those blue eyes.

heidi
written: 4/7/19 for

I went on a small trip for my sweet girl's birthday, so I am behind a little. I am also super off prompt with this one, but I was more inspired to write for my girl. Love you, Aoife! 

NaPoWriMo Day Four: Canon

Rewrite your death
Erase it from our story
Return to me.


heidi
written: 4/4/19 for

The challenge for today is to write a poem that achieves sadness through simplicity. Et voila! A Collom Lune about my grief. (I think that she must have been thinking about me when she wrote the challenge.)  

NaPoWriMo Day Three: Once Upon A Time

it started
with a class

that lead to a friendship
that became an affair

that fizzled

but the friendship remained

and became a romance

which evolved into a marriage
with three babies
but only two lived
and four dogs...over time

that lasted thirteen years

until this January
when your heart stopped
and mine broke

ending

our happily ever after.

heidi
written: 4/3/19 for

For today, we are to write a poem that takes time and covers time. I am not sure that I am exactly doing that, but it is longer than the poems that I have been writing lately. So there's that. 

NaPoWriMo Day Two: Questions

How do I?
When the days drag by
Why'd you go?

heidi
written: 4/2/19 for



The prompt for today was to write a poem of questions that ends with a question. I fell back to my handy Collom Lune, and it may sound familiar. My Lunes tend to start to sound alike when I write a bunch on the same subject.

NaPoWriMo Day One: How to Say Goodbye

First you have to figure out what (or who) you are saying goodbye to.

I am saying goodbye to some Barbeque Chips.

In the form of a letter
  (that is also a poem-ish)

Dear Chips,

I bought you for my Darrell.
You were his favorites.
Now he is gone
and you are still in my pantry
Along with his oatmeal cakes.

And I don't want to eat you
so I should give you away,
it would be a waste to throw you away
you've never been opened.

But if you aren't waiting for him
in our pantry
then that's one more thing
telling me that he is
never
coming
back.

And I am not ready to admit that yet.
So maybe I can't say goodbye to you yet.

Maybe tomorrow.

Love,
Heidi

So maybe this is a how-not-to-say-goodbye-yet-poem.


heidi
written" 4/1/19 for






So Day One is done and on time for NaPo! Woohoo! I am going to focus on that sense of accomplishment rather than how sad I feel from writing it. Also, I am really bad at how-to's.

NaPoWriMo Early-Bird: Warrior Pose

Finding my Way
Keeping up the fight and
Not giving up.

heidi
written: 4/1/19 for




I am starting out a little behind, so a day late for the early-bird, but here it is. The prompt was to write a poetic self-portrait, but with you as someone famous. I wrote a Collom Lune with me as Xena. And before you're like "uh, Heidi, she's not real." I know that, but she's my hero and had a lot of loss and hard times and I am still mourning my husband. Also, I may be a little touchy.