~NaPoWriMo~
Chatterbox: Pudding's Place
~NaPoWriMo~
~NaPoWriMo~
Tomorrow is the first day of April, and you know what that means... it's the start of NaPoWriMo! NaPoWriMo, short for National Poetry Writing Month, is a challenge where you're encouraged to write one poem a day for the entire month of April.
Don't worry if one poem a day sounds like too much -- you certainly don't have to do that! You can participate and aim for one poem a week, or a poem every other day, or whatever feels right for you. No pressure!
There's a semi-official site for NaPoWriMo where they post prompts each day (you can find it pretty easily by Googling), but, speaking from past experience, not all of those prompts are the most inspiring. There are lots of other prompt lists out there, such as the Escapril prompts (below), but you can also just write whatever you're inspired by without abiding to a prompt list!
1. Ego
2. The exact middle
3. Empty, except for ___
4. Ghost
5. Here’s what I remember:
6. (l)on(e)ly
7. Naked
8. Tessellation
9. Paradox
10. I’m worried about her
11. Eureka!
12. Comfortable
13. After the afterlife
14. Wishbone
15. Planes/trains/automobiles
16. Bird of paradise
17. Power
18. Nightmare
19. Mirror
20. Stranger than fiction
21. Glitch
22. In the distance, a small shape
23. Clock
24. Crossroads
25. Pareidolia
26. Nothing more beautiful
27. Ink
28. Extreme dissonance
29. Goodbye
30. Even now, after everything?
NaPoWriMo has a wonderful history on the CB! I'll link some of the past
threads if anyone's interested in going back and reading some old poetry, or seeing past prompts for inspiration.
2020 - http://www.cricketmagkids.com/chatterbox/puddingsplace/node/432996
2019 - http://www.cricketmagkids.com/chatterbox/puddingsplace/node/405290
2018 - http://www.cricketmagkids.com/chatterbox/puddingsplace/node/362224
Feel free to post your poems here if you'd like! I'm excited to see everyone's. :)
(March 31, 2021 - 5:17 pm)
April 18th~ nightmare
This is no daydream, no harmless fantasy
you’re looking in on someone else’s nightmare,
this is not what you remember, not what you dreamed up as a small child
There’s no way this could be someone’s highest aspiration
there’s no way these unspeakable horrors could be what
you wanted the most
someone made a mistake and it wasn’t you
The reality around you is your fault
you’re painfully aware of it
someone made a mistake and maybe it was you
This is no daydream, no harmless fantasy-
they were right
This is a nightmare.
(April 19, 2021 - 9:38 pm)
April 19th~ mirror
the mirror is grounding,
sometimes-
even if i hate what i see in it-
sometimes.
it’s a reminder that i’m here
i’m real, i’m not just a mirage
i’m a real person
with a real reflection
i’m not a ghost, not a phantom of the me
i used to be, even if
it feels that way-
sometimes-
it’s a reminder that i have to keep going
for me, for everyone who needs me
if i disappeared, it would not go unnoticed
if i disappeared, the world would cry for me
the mirror is grounding,
sometimes.
it’s a reminder that i am something
always.
(April 19, 2021 - 9:39 pm)
(April 20, 2021 - 12:03 pm)
...
I already broke my promise. *covers face* I'm so sorry XD
April 20th~ stranger than fiction
what if we’re all just characters in a book?
side characters, not the heroes-
the ones who make an appearance once
maybe twice, in that chapter everyone seems to forget about
the ones our author never really developed
so we developed ourselves
what if we’re all beautiful stories that were never told?
what if everything that’s ever happened
is a product of some child in a faraway universe’s imagination?
maybe in an alternate reality I dreamed up
someone dreamed up me
life’s strange sometimes
some of the things we go through could only happen in someone’s dark imagination
someone’s darkest nightmares
we don’t all get a happy ending, but
maybe our world will, maybe the author is planning a
happily-ever-after for us after all-
I’d like to think that’s how it is.
(April 21, 2021 - 5:40 pm)
I like this one :D
April 21st~ glitch
“hi there
we haven’t talked in a while, did I
...do something?”
almost automatically,
the backspace key does its job
click click click click
middle finger knows what to do
after all this time, it
presses presses presses
click click click click
time to start over
“hi
I really miss you
could I call you sometime?”
no, definitely not, then you’d have to explain
click click click, backspace key says
you’re not brave enough to hit send
(or to explain it face-to-face)
middle finger presses presses presses
“hey, this might seem weird
but we haven’t talked lately, I
was wondering if I did something?
this is out of the blue and kind of random,
I know, but I just wanted
to make sure everything’s okay…”
finger hovers over the enter key
no, you can’t
you’re not brave enough
middle finger starts do do its job but
the system glitched, because the
message just sent
maybe your fingers know more than your brain
sometimes, because
it turned out she was just busy.
~~
Note: This might just be how I type (I'm not sure if other people do this too or not but just in case) but I use my middle finger to hit backspace/delete, that was not an implication of anything inappropriate. That might have already been clear but I just wanted to make sure :)
(April 23, 2021 - 9:59 am)
i have no idea how this got so... dark? and of course i had to turn it into a love poem haha
April 22~ in the distance, a small shape
dust swirls, suffocating
wonder what i’d look like
if someone saw me
ground disappears under my feet
i think it’s trying to kill me
if someone could hear me
i’d ask them for help
how do i get out of this mess
wind whips, stinging and sharp
it burns, i burn, it’s cold and hot all at once
i wasn’t made for this,
just let me be, please, please
rain pours out of the sky, endless
it’s drowning me and
i’m still burning up from the inside
i need to cry the pain away but i can’t
did i die, this is not the earth
i’m used to
i need to scream but i can’t open my mouth
wonder what it’d look like to someone watching
i guess i’d be a small shape in the distance
covered in dust and drowning in water
i don’t think this is how things were
ever supposed to go
please let me be now
i’m done, i promise i’m done
i promised i’d go through this and more for you
but i think i’ve already shattered.
(April 23, 2021 - 10:02 am)
I FORGOT TO POST THIS BUT IM SUPER PROUD OF IT
Nightmare~
The swirling mist
The blacks, the blues, the purples.
The slowly defining shapes, even with my screeches, my screams of terror.
Every night...
The world turns upside down.
I become the villain.
I kill my friends, everyone I've ever loved.
Well more like someone else does.
The clicking, the swiping, the plunging, the crossing of the swords-
I'm barely intact..
Someone controls me..
The bodies of my friends, my family, as the soul leaves my body
I can only cry
And mourn
And wonder.
Why me?
The moons
the stars
the sun...
I become the villain
in the stories
the evil one
the anarchist,
the assassin,
the evil murderer.
Spiders
and holes
and everybody
dying
the planet
being consumed
in ashes
and chaos
People screeching at me
you're useless
People screaming at me
you're useless
People yelling, slapping, hurting me...
you're useless
People tripping me
shouting
insults
at
me
I let them break through the shield of words I've made...
I let them break my soull...
I've let those words define me..
Useless. horrible. Confusing. Weird. Crazy. Insane. Social outcast. Introvert. Anarchist. The villain. The assasin. Self-conceited.
I've let them break through..
and for once.
my manipulation
of words
fails
me
~
This is based on a true story. I actually do have nightmares every night of this stuff. And yes, I can manipulate words well. Yes, people have hurt me, hit me, slapped me. People have also mentally abused me, and have called me all the words above (Useless, horrible, confusing, weird, crazy, insane, social outcast, introvert, anarchist, the villain, the assasin, self-conceited, etc.) People have posted rumours about me. If you ask, I'm fine, thank you for worrying. I moved to another school, but that doesn't help a lot a lot. Why? Because the people here are better- even in person, they're friendly, but online, some of the others have posted entire paragraphs, essays, on why I'm horrible, and they ship me with my 'rival.' And yup, I'm fine.
Hold it. Vim said 'vfkbi'. ...Vim. You're...bi?
<uhyes>
That's cool! You can host a party for this after the CB Ball Win's hosting.
<yayyy>
(April 23, 2021 - 12:03 pm)