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The Quillfish<\/h2>\n
The Quillfish<\/a> looks just like a snake\r\nBut eats invertebrates.\r\nIts body looks just like a straw\r\nPuff's briny thirst to slake.\r\n<\/pre>\n
I didn’t promise a good<\/strong> poem every<\/em> day, did I? Q is hard. I hope the image entertains! Sometimes, Midjourney seems to have an imagination almost as quirky as mine. Sometimes, I feed it my words and it goes, “Huh?” (The poem did not originally have a pufferfish in it at all. But MJ doesn’t seem to understand a fish that looks like a snake that could double as a straw, and balked. It created an interesting bestiary of fantasy creatures, but could not just give me one orange snake-like, straw-like quillfish.) That one, I could probably draw better, myself. But what it did give me made me laugh, so I’ll save my own drawings for Inktober2024!<\/p>\n
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Todays Poet<\/h2>\n
Nizar Qabbani<\/strong> – Syrian Diplomat, poet, writer, publisher, lawyer, intellectual. Syria’s national poet. Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Nizar Qabbani’s poems<\/a><\/p>\n
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April is National Poetry Month<\/a>. This year marks its 27th year. NaPoWriMo<\/a> – 30 days of writing poems – is poets’ answer to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).<\/p>\n
This coincides with the A to Z Blogging Challenge<\/a>, now celebrating its 13th anniversary. Some participants choose a theme; others wing it. Doesn’t matter! The real challenge is to build a practice of writing daily. I think I stuck with it…once.\u00a0You can see the list of participants<\/a> – I’m sure they’d love it if you’d visit and comment on their blogs.<\/p>\n
This month, my goal is to:<\/p>\n
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  1. Write a poem a day and share it – uncurated<\/a> – here; and<\/li>\n
  2. Highlight some poets you may be unfamiliar with.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    I encourage you to click the links to read about them and their work. I plan to choose a diverse array of classical and contemporary poets – indigenous poets, Black poets, women poets, LGBTQ poets – that challenge us to see the world differently while also tapping into universal themes and emotions.<\/p>\n
    Remember, too, that comments and conversation are always welcome here. (Spammers<\/em>, on the other hand, will be tossed into the moat or mocked, so before you leave an irrelevant comment or drop a link, consider that it’s fair game!)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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