Day Twenty-Three

What’s so good about Thursday, anyway? Well, when it’s in April, it furnishes an excellent excuse to write another poem for Na/GloPoWriMo!

Our featured participant today is Lorraine Ryan, in whose response to Day 22’s “serious fun” prompt we hear both the counsel of “monkey mind” and what I suppose must be its North American cousin, “squirrel mind” (though squirrels, diligently planning for winter, also embody the protestant work ethic that the poem mentions).

Today’s resource is the Versecraft podcast. If you’re interested in poetic form, this is the podcast for you!

And speaking of forms, today’s (optional) prompt takes its inspiration from Kiki Petrosino’s loose villanelle, “Nursery.” Try your hand today at your own take on a villanelle, and have the poem end on a question.

Happy writing!