This April, like the two previous, I’m joining poets around the world to participate in GloPoWriMo, and this April, like never before, I feel I need poetry in my life, especially when the writing of it connects me to poets around the world. You can participate, too. Check out the Na/GloPoWriMo website to find (optional) daily prompts.
Poems from April 2020
Essential Days
Day Seven: Hydroxychloroquine Cheerleaders
Day 11: The Earth Laughs in Flowers
Day 14: “Every Sea Broke Over All”
Day 22: Loneliness is My Companion
Day 24: Whose Hands, This Apple?
Day 25: Never Return – Remain Here Now
Day 27: The Speech I Want to Hear
Poems from April 2019
Songs from Tamriel
Poet’s note: This year, I’m setting all of my poems in the world of Tamriel, the fictional realm of the Elder Scrolls video game series, loved by millions of players worldwide.
Song 1 – Self-Portrait as Cat Littlebird
Song 2 – How to Harvest Ancestor Silk
Song 4 – Closing Rifts In Time
Song 5 – Lament of the Hollow City
Song 6 – Molag Bal and Meridia Vie for my Soul
Song 7 – Songs That Might Have Been
Song 8 – Skips-in-Muddy-Puddles (When Slavery Ends)
Song 14 – Meridia’s Golden Shore
Song 15 – To Pledge a Promise, on my Word
Song 17 – Infamous Rain/Golden Particles of Light
Song 20 – As Heard in Mournhold
Song 23 – Frogs, Fetlocks, Forelocks
Song 24 – Reference: Soul-Trapping I
Song 25 – Summer in Coldharbour
Song 26 – Gold Crush, In Denial
Song 28 – For the Story Walker
Poems from April 2018
Day 2 – Blue-Green Landscape on a Canvas
Day 3 – Album Titles for Boy Band
Day 9 – At the military lottery, the world falls in love with Game
Day 11 – The age that I am now
Day 12 – San Francisco 1969 (childhood)
Day 14 – Dictionary of Dreams (Authorized Version)
Day 15 – They Say Poetry and Politics Don’t Mix
Day 17 – The Adventures of Gigi
