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Tag Archives: national poetry month

#NaPoWriMo: Day 29

I am clinging to
memories of
blue parakeets
lullaby-ing me
to sleep

Posted byJennifer PatinoApril 29, 2020Posted inpoetryTags:amwriting, craft, napowrimo, napowrimo2020, national poetry month, poem, poetry, poetry community, poetrycommunity, poets, writers, writing

#NaPoWriMo: Day 28

Glacier blue walls
and the autumn
scent of spiced apples…
means I’ve woken
up in Michigan.

Posted byJennifer PatinoApril 28, 2020Posted inpoetryTags:amwriting, napowrimo, napowrimo2020, national poetry month, nostalgia, poem, poetry, poetry community, poetrycommunity, poets, room, writers, writing

#NaPoWriMo: Day 27

the dancers become flames
devouring my heart

Posted byJennifer PatinoApril 27, 2020Posted inpoetryTags:amwriting, dancing, napowrimo, napowrimo2020, national poetry month, poem, poetry, poets, writers, writing

#NaPoWriMo: Day 26

conversations about hips /
conversations about
catching up

Posted byJennifer PatinoApril 26, 2020April 26, 2020Posted inpoetryTags:napowrimo, napowrimo2020, national poetry month, poem, poetry, poetry community, poetrycommunity, trauma

#NaPoWriMo: Day 25

a verbal knife wound
twisting
every fiber of my being
until I’m
scrubbed raw

Posted byJennifer PatinoApril 25, 2020April 25, 2020Posted inpoetryTags:napowrimo, napowrimo2020, national poetry month, poem, poetry, poetry community, poetrycommunity, poets, writers, writing

#NaPoWriMo: Day 23

the dandelion fields
hold splendor
& the May sky speaks

Posted byJennifer PatinoApril 23, 2020Posted inpoetryTags:amwriting, napowrimo, napowrimo202, national poetry month, poetry, poetry community, poetrycommunity, poets, writers, writing

#NaPoWriMo: Day 20

Never question
me beneath moonlight,
or in the throes of battle.

Posted byJennifer PatinoApril 20, 2020Posted inpoetryTags:fantasy, napowrimo, national poetry month, poem, poetry, poets, writers, writing

#NaPoWriMo: Day 19

Nothing protected us then,
& we’re so much more
vulnerable now…

Posted byJennifer PatinoApril 19, 2020Posted inpoetryTags:amwriting, family, napowrimo, national poetry month, poem, poetry, poets, writers, writing

#NaPoWriMo: Day 18

my sister is
scarred and I
can count
her rib bones
like pick-up stix

Posted byJennifer PatinoApril 18, 2020April 18, 2020Posted inpoetryTags:amwriting, charlie says, movies, napowrimo, national poetry month, poem, poetry, poets, writers, writing

#NaPoWriMo: Day 17

I used unraveled
tapes as ribbons
for the gift box
I put my heart in…

Posted byJennifer PatinoApril 17, 2020Posted inpoetryTags:amwriting, napowrimo, national poetry month, nostalgia, poem, poetry, poets, vintage, writers, writing

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