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Circadian Addiction (CA)
This is a raw writing exercise forum where you are challenged to write something everyday for either 5, 15 or 30 consecutive days. Full details for participation are located inside. Hop on this car and let's ride! This is one addiction that you do not want to miss! (Moderator: Normpo)
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Round ??? day 7
I haven't written anything since before Christmas thanks to a very bad eye infection that kept me from the computer, stopped me reading and left only a diet of tv over the holiday.
It's clea... Started Jan 1st, 2014 at 9:41am by nas |
4 | 26 |
Jun 2nd, 2015 at 3:43pm By: Tim |
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2015 Round 1 day 4
Bottom of the Heap
The coffee shop is warm, internet is free and Beth's learned how to stretch one drink to last an afternoon. Surrounded by people who move with purpose – meeting friends, resti... Started May 30th, 2015 at 8:27pm by nas |
2 | 33 |
Jun 1st, 2015 at 5:32am By: nas |
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Re-visioning CA Run 6 of 15 2015
Note: I was reading "old" poems posted in the On Track forum and found a poem of Daniel's (A Rondeau) -- these were the first four lines:
"Reflect again, and you will see it's turned from le... Started May 30th, 2015 at 6:06pm by Normpo |
2 | 36 |
May 31st, 2015 at 7:39am By: Just_Daniel |
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Masked Love Limerick - CA Run 4 of 15 - 2015
Masked Love Limerick
Never saw her face when he'd date her, Though his love for her couldn't be greater. But finally he asked That she take off her mask Since then all he doe... Started May 27th, 2015 at 12:45pm by Normpo |
3 | 40 |
May 28th, 2015 at 4:56am By: Tim |
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2015 Round 1 day 2
Patterns
Her life is an open book journaled on facebook video diaried for youtube. Spoken words that cry a need to be heard, for someone to give her the hug, the ... Started May 26th, 2015 at 6:26pm by nas |
6 | 56 |
May 27th, 2015 at 8:52pm By: nas |
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Chamfer part 1
Chamfer Chamfer wakes up hungrier than usual. Today is Muscul’s—the Sun God’s—birthday, which marks the end of the rainy season, and in two moon cycles, the start of the Zafra, the great harvest. In th... Started May 26th, 2015 at 7:13pm by Tim |
7 | 57 |
May 27th, 2015 at 6:10pm By: Tim |
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Ceramic Senryu - CA Run 3 of 15 - 2015
Note: didn't know which one of these gets my point across better (maybe neither one succeeds) I also toyed with the idea that the title might be "No Feat of Clay" ~smile~
Ceramic Senryu statue ... Started May 26th, 2015 at 11:58am by Normpo |
5 | 41 |
May 27th, 2015 at 5:43pm By: Tim |
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My Name in Future Imperfect Tense - CA Run 2 of 15 - 2015
Note: Looking back on poems from my past (wayyyyy back to 1956), I like to re-visit those immature poetic beginnings and re-present them.
My Name in Future Imperfect Tense If I don't cast a shadow... Started May 25th, 2015 at 1:48pm by Normpo |
5 | 44 |
May 27th, 2015 at 12:43pm By: Normpo |
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2015 Round 1 day 1
Auction catalogue in hand,
she takes a peripheral view. The house stands bare among withered weeds, windows boarded peeling paintwork, faded blue, roof tiles broken ... Started May 25th, 2015 at 7:59pm by nas |
4 | 19 |
May 26th, 2015 at 7:42pm By: nas |
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Dangling - CA Run 1 of 15 - 2015
Dangling
At 14: I had climbed out on a tree limb overlooking Rahway River, hanging from my legs like a daring trapeze arti... Started May 24th, 2015 at 12:22pm by Normpo |
3 | 44 |
May 26th, 2015 at 6:39pm By: Tim |
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2013 - Round of 15 (#13) - A Binomial Expression
A Binomial Expression
filled with the (emptiness) within parentheses without numbers or letters, you can’t feel liberated if en(closed). Whethe... Started Dec 22nd, 2013 at 11:06pm by Normpo |
2 | 36 |
Jan 1st, 2014 at 9:37am By: nas |
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2013 - Round of 15 (#12) - Is There a Voice In My Room?
There’s a Voice In My Room
Alone within these boundaries I know it is not mere caprice. Just find me so I can find peace ‘wake from the silence of these sheets. I wish for it ... Started Dec 21st, 2013 at 2:23am by Normpo |
3 | 45 |
Jan 1st, 2014 at 9:34am By: nas |
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Yeah, who keeps score anymore? D7
A Poem Wakes Itself
(after Neruda) Morning circles the rug like an orange tabby, waiting for me to rise and open the door. Familiar as cobwebs in corners, my first words, not y... Started Dec 23rd, 2013 at 4:42am by Tim |
3 | 21 |
Jan 1st, 2014 at 9:04am By: nas |
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2013 - Round of 15 (#11) - First Dates…Last Prunes
Note: NO! I do NOT do drugs and never drink! I was sober writing this just now! You guys shouldn't have mentioned first dates!
First Dates…Last Prunes First: hopes of a peach, the taste ... Started Dec 21st, 2013 at 1:09am by Normpo |
5 | 61 |
Dec 23rd, 2013 at 4:11am By: Tim |
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To Bee or Be R39-29 (Bumped UP from 2008) See My Last Post
To Bee or Be
Devora Dvora From her flows milk and honey To be (with or without the sting), be what you are, yet be my bee. I am a defender of [the “e”... Started Aug 16th, 2008 at 4:49am by Normpo |
12 | 96 |
Dec 22nd, 2013 at 11:56pm By: Normpo |
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Yeah, who keeps score anymore? D6
Modern Love
for N Net her before she jumps to familiar waters, use a lure like a Ferrari or Corvette. Keep her reading the next line and the next line of your proem, until she’s blind<br... Started Dec 18th, 2013 at 9:35pm by Tim |
4 | 20 |
Dec 21st, 2013 at 6:57am By: Tim |
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2013 - Round of 15 (#8) Tanka - Foggy Meltdown
Tanka - Foggy Meltdown
This foggy meltdown yawns and sends a message clear. I used to awake, and with no rhyme or reason, write a tanka for you, love. © Norman S. Pollack... Started Dec 17th, 2013 at 11:03am by Normpo |
2 | 39 |
Dec 21st, 2013 at 12:41am By: Normpo |
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2013 - Round of 15 (#10) Tanka - Eating Color
Tanka - Eating Color*
It wasn’t on her menu; I’m full from eating color. I lost my way home while picking pink daffodils leaving them by the mailbox. * Borrowed this grea... Started Dec 17th, 2013 at 11:19am by Normpo |
3 | 33 |
Dec 21st, 2013 at 12:39am By: Normpo |
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2013 - Round of 15 (#9) Tanka - Angled Memory
Tanka - Angled Memory*
Tangled knots, these thoughts are my angled memories. I climbed a mountain only as an exercise for my body, not my soul. *This phrase was from a na... Started Dec 17th, 2013 at 11:11am by Normpo |
4 | 40 |
Dec 21st, 2013 at 12:27am By: Normpo |
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Yeah, who keeps score anymore? D1
From the Digitized Tower
with apologies to Countee Cullen and J.K. Rowling We shall not always read while others work-- This kindled majesty of our e-books, Nor amble, scrolling down, ign... Started Dec 9th, 2013 at 7:40am by Tim |
5 | 51 |
Dec 19th, 2013 at 6:07pm By: Tim |
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Yeah, who keeps score anymore? D2
Codicil to Last Will and Testament of a Minor Poet
I, _____________, of sound mind and disposing memory, and fully understanding the nature and extent of my property and of this disposition there... Started Dec 10th, 2013 at 1:31pm by Tim |
6 | 70 |
Dec 19th, 2013 at 6:06pm By: Tim |
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Yeah, who keeps score anymore? D4
Writer’s Block
He wakes through foggy mire and a cluster of fireflies, the space between their bodies her silhouette, her eye blinking a message forgotten as his open. In bed, <b... Started Dec 12th, 2013 at 4:02am by Tim |
5 | 25 |
Dec 19th, 2013 at 6:04pm By: Tim |
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Round ??? day 6
Some Nights
Some nights I lie awake still climbing walls slick with yesterday’s stress, handholds crumbling as I haul my body higher falling into days sodden with dr... Started Dec 18th, 2013 at 6:58am by nas |
3 | 30 |
Dec 19th, 2013 at 6:33am By: Tim |
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Round ??? day 5
Destruction
Eva hasn’t been back since she and her parents fled on a goods train in the middle of the night. The memory is still vivid; running through her mind like a film on repeat. * * *... Started Dec 15th, 2013 at 7:39pm by nas |
4 | 29 |
Dec 19th, 2013 at 6:00am By: nas |
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Round ??? day 2
Bric-a-Brac
His mind’s a bric-a-brac stall of disordered experiences rummaged through then worn as new bought today. He wastes hours holding onto the past, wear... Started Dec 8th, 2013 at 7:23am by nas |
5 | 31 |
Dec 18th, 2013 at 6:56am By: nas |
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