NaPoWriMo day 30: Darkness at last

This is the last NaPoWriMo day, and I am going to do several of these over the next few minutes. the first draft is a poem I just now finished. After, I am going to go see what RLB is up to with his final prompt. Here we go.



Putting it Behind Me

I have lost track
of my past, given up
all my yesterdays,

moved on. I eagerly wait
for the tragic fall, sure to break
my hip bone in two,

fracture me from myself.

When I look up to stare
at the sun, unable to move
or regain my feet

I will marvel how
the sun is obscured
by the leaves on the trees,

their color bleached out.

When everything fades
to white (and I mean
everything) I will

faint from the beauty
mingling with the pain
flooding my entire body,

acting with no remorse.


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Well, the prompt was about endings, so i went ahead and posted this draft to satisfy that prompt as well. I kinda had a feeling the prompt would be about ends or last things.

Re-cap

I am proud of myself on several levels this year for NaPoWriMo. First, I wrote a lot more real poems, relying less upon haiku to get me through the month. Second, the poems I did write this year were much better than last year's offerings. I also think the writing came much easier to me this year than last year.

I am very happy that all of my poems (with the exception of this last one) were written in the open blog window, live and without leaving the computer for more than two minutes. That means all of my poems were written impromptu, so to speak, without any forthought or prior prep work. All are original thoughts to the time I opened the window (again with the exception of this last one, which I wrote while waiting for my school computer to work correctly).

Thank you to everyone who stopped by and commented on my poems, giving me both compliments and encouragements. All were appreciated, and I hope this month passed by with a little bit of genuine and worthwhile entertainment on my part.

I want to take a small break from this and start in earnest on a new full length manuscript. I have all but given up on my first full length book.

My experience with Lulu has given birth to the idea of creating a self published collection of my first two chapbooks and poems about Springville which I have written between 1997-2007. There wouldn't be much to it, but i think I would really like to see all of my "Springville" poems in one place.

Talk to you all later. I have had a lot of fun and I hope you have, too.