The year prior to NaPoWriMo2014 was a slack year for me, poetry-wise. So, of course I welcomed the thought of setting a goal of a poem a day in April. I was so pleased with reaching that goal that I added an extra poem on the 30^th. I ended the month in high spirits, thinking my dry spell was behind me. Unfortunately, I was so busy with other projects, and plans in the next eleven months that my writing dropped right off, again. I’m lucky if I wrote a dozen poems.

Fast forward to NaPoWriMo2015. I think it went very well. As in 2014, I used my own photos (with the exception of one poem – at the intersection of faith and charity), using them as part of a metaphor or, in some cases, as actual inspiration. I followed one NaPoWriMo prompt, with Abandoned Crossing, and sort of followed another, with Waymarks. I did my best to review each day’s submissions for NaPoWriMo, and sometimes a word would jump out at me, giving me an idea for a poem. I had one poem, Unspoken, that was directly inspired by a submission from the previous day.

I’m sure I won’t be writing a poem a day, but I do want to write more often than I have in the past couple of years. In fact, I took a photo yesterday and knew right away that it had a poem in it. All I had was a title, and I was already formulating Consolation, so I finished that and posted it for the 30^th. The other poem came to me today, May 1^st, so I’ve posted it and tagged it NaPoWriMo, because the seed was planted yesterday.

The Heart of the Matter

Here’s hoping the poems keep coming.

Ken G. / rivrvlogr