(Final April Poetry Month Prompt from Poetry Super Highway: Write a Postcard Poem…)
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Dear Almost Ex:
The cellblock’s senior guard told me
to keep it under 25 words and
get it into the slot by midnight so…
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Poetry Super Highway
04.30.2026
~ Postcard Poem ~
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NaPoWriMo 2026
(Off-Prompt)
~ DAY 30 ~
In the middle of our table-talk
her mask slipped and gave her away.
Did she think I wouldn’t notice
her excess Deipnosophism?
I gave up any attempt to chat,
sat back and bathed in her blather.
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NaPoWriMo 2026 – Day 28
6 Lines / 3 Sentences
~ Statement / Question / Conclusion ~
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Ragtag Daily Prompt
04.28.2026
~ Deipnosophist ~
get out of bed
or try to
get out of bed
get out of bed
face the day
start the week
Monday’s Monday
like it or not
get on with it
get on with it
try to try
try to try to try
go ahead then
get out of bed
I dare you
I dare you
get out of bed
if you dare
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(On Prompt)
NaPoWriMo 2026
DAY 27
~Instructional Triplets~
Even trying as hard as she did, figuring out why she had so much trouble spelling “conundrum” remained a puzzle.
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Sammi Cox Weekend
Writing Prompt 465
~ Conundrum – 20 Words~
Awaiting a shift
Janey sits by the river
counting syllables
haiku April ends
the day before tomorrow
senryu Sunday
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Poetry Super Highway
04.26.2026
~Nature-Free / Best Friend Haiku~
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NaPoWriMo 2026
DAY 26
~ars poetica~
I need a day off.
Just one day,
I swear.
It’s April
and April’s
almost
over.
Thank God.
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Weekly Prompts
04.25.2026
~ ONE DAY #23~
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NaPoWriMo 2026
(Off-Prompt)
~DAY 25~
She challenged us to do a Stream of Consciousness piece using one or more words from her “tan/ten/tin/ton/tun” list and promised us BONUS POINTS if we use them all, but I’m (still!) waiting to hear HOW MANY Bonus Points using the whole tan/ten/tin/ton/tun list will get me, and what (if anything) can I get in exchange for these (alleged) “BONUS” POINTS? And: Do I earn EXTRA BONUS POINTS if I use the “tan/ten/tin/ton/tun” list more than once?
I ain’t writin nothin til I hear back.
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Linda Hill’s 04.25.26
Stream of Consciousness Saturday
~tan/ten/tin/ton/tun~
Nightwalk.
Across uneven, unpredictable and
wet terrain.
In silence.
Where there is snow
what snow there is, gleams:
(looks like summer phosphor
or Saint - maybe - Elmo’s fire)
it glows:
like the last dim remembered remains
of last November’s ember-pile.
Rain plip plop far as the furthest
ear can hear:
drizzles down drenched raincoats’
camouflaged by night --
There, through the dark in the rain,
single file and silent,
the new tribe finds its way.
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NaPoWriMo 2026
Day 24
~Night Walk~
No matter
how clear the windshield or
how bright the headlights,
there comes a time
(usually late in the journey)
when the big show
is in the rear-view mirror.
Sooner or later
the tension of time fades:
we drive toward
and long for
a future
we know will never arrive
and we do our best
to get through the present
hoping for enough time
to sort out the growing past.
We watch our watches, waiting
for midnight to become dawn
just one more time
until it doesn’t.
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Poetry Super Highway
Day 23
~Drive By~
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dVerse Poets Pub
04.23.26
~Open Link Night #406~
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NaPoWriMo 2026
(Off-Prompt)
~DAY 23~
SCRAMBLED, NOT FRIED 