NaPoWriMo is National Poetry Writing Month or write a poem a day. I haven’t done it since 2019, but I used to participate every year. Grad school and then early teaching derailed that. I give myself a limit of writing poems in 10 to 20 minutes and then posting them. Some days they have lots of potential and some days not so much, but I post them all. Let me know if you are going to participate and I’ll read what you write too. The link to sign up to register your site with poetry here. 

 It was my students writing with our Writers In the Schools (WITS) poet who has been teaching my English class for the last several weeks. His name is Jay and he’s brilliant at getting good work out of students! Listening to their poetry today inspires me to try again.

Tonight’s offering is not the best and not the worst I’ve written, but to be back at it is the theme of tonight’s poem. 

  The Announcement 

Proclaiming how I’m going to attempt 

With a pocket full of ambition 

Sculpting the talents I’ve been lent 

Doing nothing new 

I spew, 

Second time around 

I believe I’ve found my flaw 

Shying from the letter of the law 

I dance a few steps 

Overwhelmed, verklempt 

Near best, failing test,

I desist 

Third time’s charm 

I think “What’s the harm?” 

Finding a cue 

That isn’t used 

Tightening the script 

I let it rip! 

Success of sorts 

Not the sport 

I believe to be 

Set out to sea 

Wealth’s spree 

Free to be me