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Circadian Addiction Forum
The Circadian Addiction forum is our writing exercise forum geared to helping us
adapt the idea of writing everyday, even when the words won’t come.  Or better yet,...

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Circadian 51 - #5 - To Sleep, "Perchance To Dream" - Palindr
“To sleep, perchance to dream.” * - A Palindromic Nonet
We waited for night’s undressed slumber,
Shaking off the silver daylight
Whispering, beyond the rub.
“To sleep, perchance to...

Started Nov 13th, 2019 at 12:23am by Normpo
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2017 Day 2
Baby October
Since the tears are flowing
I will write about a snowflake
that forms like in the womb of the sky,
so perfect and different from any other of its kind.
So delicat...

Started Nov 9th, 2017 at 7:44pm by sierra
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Day 2 of 5
Aging tests stability of mind
its ability to witness decline over time,
fine wrinkles, not so fine
laugh lines, not so funny
gray hair perhaps wise-looking,
not always good lo...

Started Dec 9th, 2017 at 11:02pm by sierra
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A New Run of 5 - #2 Heteronyms
Heteronyms
   – or "Read This So You Can Say You’ve Read It "
Take a minute to examine a very minute subject;
this poem is your address to attempt to address the subject of homographs....

Started Dec 6th, 2017 at 2:19pm by Normpo
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New Run of Five-#01- Athena- Goddess of Wisdom and Intelligence
Athena- Goddess of Wisdom and Intelligence
This is an ancient tale, told many years ago,
Told with blunt sincerity, but the reader must deduce
If it be truth or fiction, who can really ...

Started Nov 28th, 2017 at 3:00am by Normpo
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2017 day 5
Today I was confronted by a mob of leaves,
my life story straying off branches, pages
words begging Mother Nature nudge them
just a little, give
them golden wings
bring to lif...

Started Nov 17th, 2017 at 6:43pm by sierra
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2017 day 7
*This was just another dream I had that scared me.
The air was crimson-lit and thick
with smoke I couldn't smell
but hung 'round like burial roses
in anticipation of a corpse.<br /...

Started Nov 20th, 2017 at 7:19pm by sierra
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Circadian Run – 5 Days abNORMal Rhyming Poems - #5 "Mangled Limerick"
Note: I've written many, many "Mangled Limericks" -- I'll post more of them someday in the "Poetic Forms" Forum
The A-A-A-A-A Rhyme Scheme Limerick – “Try It”
Limericks are fun, you should try it<...

Started Nov 14th, 2017 at 1:25am by Normpo
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Circadian Run – 5 Days abNORMal Rhyming Poems - #4 "Endings Begin"
note: This is a sonnet form I invented years ago -- Daniel named it the  "Progressive Sonnet."  See if you can figure out what the basic rule of this form is.  (Daniel gives a full explanation of it i...

Started Nov 11th, 2017 at 3:12am by Normpo
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2015 Round 1 day 6
River View
On hot days
when sunshine evaporates
even wispy clouds,
she sits on her favourite riverside bench,
close to the rose garden
the other side of the forest glade....

Started Jun 10th, 2015 at 6:28pm by nas
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Poetic Creme Brulee in this Cafe (Poetica) CA Run 11 of 15 - 2015
Note -- I have been drowning in work the past days so I am catching up on my run of 15 -- posting 3 more today and hopefully 2 tomorrow.  Just having fun with form poetry -- some forms I haven't playe...

Started Jun 13th, 2015 at 3:14pm by Normpo
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Taking Stock - CA Run 12 of 15 - 2015
Taking Stock - A Quintain
Mirror, mirror that's on my wall,
What is the best stock of them all?
Give me one that cannot go down
The strongest one that there is around
'Cause I...

Started Jun 13th, 2015 at 3:15pm by Normpo
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To Be  - A Rubai - CA Run 13 of 15 - 2015
To Be  - A Rubai
It isn't too easy being the "B,"
It can never be first, that you can see
'Cause that is always reserved for the "A"
Always try to be what you want to be.
Rub...

Started Jun 13th, 2015 at 3:17pm by Normpo
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2015 Round 1 day 3
Accounted
He has a head for numbers
that belongs in the past
when he kept balanced books
in neat penmanship.
Today
accountants use spreadsheets 
input formulae, pivo...

Started May 27th, 2015 at 9:06pm by nas
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pause in Chamfer 1 of ...
Online RPG Blues*
I’m trapped inside another world,
where orcs raze villages, and animate the dead.
The subscription fees, alone, amount to a large pearl.
The king’s army still thr...

Started Jun 12th, 2015 at 4:27am by Tim
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Chamfer part 4
     They walk down the hill. Chamfer returns to his absolution to ignore the hunger pains, this time full in voice. He focuses on the words of the prayer, emphasizing “so that I may see You and my an...

Started Jun 2nd, 2015 at 4:10pm by Tim
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Stopping by Woulds and Slowly Meaning - CA Run 10 of 15 - 2015
Stopping by Woulds and Slowly Meaning
Whose woulds are these? I think they're mine.
I would so like to write great lines,
I would these words were more profound;
I would I had more...

Started Jun 5th, 2015 at 6:46pm by Normpo
4 138 Last Post Jun 13th, 2015 at 2:10pm
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2015 Round 1 day 5
Retracing Steps
A face in the crowd
familiar yet unknown,
Is it her
or another?
She draws out shadows
broken in time,
but there's only one way
to find out.<br /...

Started Jun 2nd, 2015 at 5:34am by nas
5 159 Last Post Jun 13th, 2015 at 2:08pm
By: Normpo
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Antecedent  CA Run 5 of 15 - 2015
Antecedent   CA Run 5 of 15 - 2015
With all hope dashed asunder,
he waits upon the moon.
Time left him here to wonder
if some way he could attune
himself in spirit. Maybe soon...

Started May 29th, 2015 at 12:27am by Normpo
7 178 Last Post Jun 12th, 2015 at 3:50am
By: Tim
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Creative in Forms - A Lira  CA Run 9 of 15 - 2015
Creative in Forms
Do not suffer from fatigue
when trying to write even if uninspired
I have always been intrigued
by poetic form admired.
Be creative even if rules are requir...

Started Jun 3rd, 2015 at 2:08am by Normpo
4 166 Last Post Jun 5th, 2015 at 6:35pm
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Chamfer part 2
     Even lying down, Chamfer is light-headed from the fast that started yesterday. His stomach rumbles as loud as Alexa’s purring in his ear. His hands are jittery. He will have to breathe slowly and...

Started May 27th, 2015 at 6:20pm by Tim
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Authoring  -  CA Run 8 of 15 - 2015
authoring
words
     falling
      impermanent
tottering on the  e
                                 dge
      not posturing
ideas
   settling
      determ...

Started Jun 2nd, 2015 at 2:47am by Normpo
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Near Rhyming  CA Run 7 of 15  2015
Near Rhyming 
Some ask me, "What's near-rhyming?"
It's not easy to explain;
Usually I just answer smiling,
"Well, when the rhymes behave
just a little differently
usuall...

Started May 31st, 2015 at 4:30pm by Normpo
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Chamfer part 3
     “Jalla!”
     “Chamfer,” Jalla, setting down his things, waves. “You look splendid young master Chamfer. Are you going to the ceremony?” His accent runs words together more like an island br...

Started May 28th, 2015 at 9:41am by Tim
7 166 Last Post Jun 3rd, 2015 at 1:17am
By: Normpo
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