Hullo! Surprise!
Through April you will have a number of these, possibly. I have never managed a poem a day before and may not, now, but if I even manage a couple, you’ll know. The poems below are a combination of Miz Quickly’s warm-up about anger, a couple of days ago, and today’s prompt.
My seven words [second poem]: purse, hide, collected, drawn, wrinkle, sack, swell. All came from the etymology page for purse. I like how this works.
pulled for revision
Where I am living during April: The Pulitzer Remix site.
Margo Roby: Wordgathering 
Carol Carlisle
01/04/2013 at 12:26 pm
good luck in the pursuit of poetry, great start. May you continue to scatter the seeds of creativity.
margo roby
01/04/2013 at 12:38 pm
Thank you, Carol! I have just been taking a look at how many times I can appear in people’s inboxes this month.
Doug
01/04/2013 at 12:51 pm
Wow …that’s a nail it last line.
regards,
margo roby
01/04/2013 at 1:42 pm
Thank you, Doug. I appreciate that. It was one of those ‘come at the last moment’ lines.
julespaige
01/04/2013 at 1:01 pm
Great minds once again on the similar track but take different routes!
The ‘purse’uit’ of happieness… The might acorn was once a nut (a different seed).
So much for a relaxing month…see my eyes cross!
Google messed with the e-mail again and I don’t know where to find my googly eyes.
I’ll live.
Maybe I need coffee….
margo roby
01/04/2013 at 1:42 pm
We always need coffee, Jules :-).
julespaige
01/04/2013 at 1:02 pm
Oh, I meant to say anger can be an unconscionable itch. I had hives once. And that was once to many!
margo roby
01/04/2013 at 1:43 pm
Me too! I was 15 and we think it was peaches. If it happens again I’ll stick a fork in myself. Talk about misery.
Elizabeth
01/04/2013 at 1:13 pm
Really like this Margo, especially that second piece, I know that state of being well. Glad to see you here and will hope you manage more than just a few,
Elizabeth
margo roby
08/04/2013 at 11:59 am
Another spam rescue. Can’t imagine what sent this into exile. Late, but thank you, nevertheless.
margo
brenda w
01/04/2013 at 1:43 pm
The growing anxiety of the first stanza is palpable, Margo. Then you revisit it in another guise. A worthy exploration of the prompt.
margo roby
01/04/2013 at 1:45 pm
Thank you, Brenda. I experienced the first one three years ago. Never again I hope, but it’s useful for poems!
Quickly
01/04/2013 at 3:17 pm
Nicely paired. I got so busy trying to get things set up that I haven’t done the anger one yet. I suspect it’ll come in handy before the month is out.
margo roby
01/04/2013 at 3:41 pm
Chuckle.
Pamela
01/04/2013 at 4:07 pm
Two excellent poems, Margo. I am so happy to see you joining us for the first day.
Pamela
margo roby
02/04/2013 at 7:31 am
Thank you, Pamela! Now I’ll try for two days :-).
viv blake
01/04/2013 at 6:11 pm
I like your (fictitious I hope) anger poem. Mz Quickly’s warm-ups have been great.
Because I have family staying and they keep appropriating my computer, I haven’t had a chance to read others’ Napo contributions yet. I did manage my poem of the day, using the One Single Impression prompt, curtains.
I am tucked up in bed, exhausted, and looking for a prompt for tomorrow!
margo roby
02/04/2013 at 7:30 am
I like curtains. Has so many possibilities. I also like that I am going to try writing a poem a day. Does everyone post everyday during this month, or just write every day?
I hope you slept well and are raring to go. I’m just up and heading over to Barbara’s.
markwindham
02/04/2013 at 9:35 am
starting with a bang ain’t ‘cha. I like it. Everything about the second, most everything about the first;
‘Terror-born anger
grows from her stomach’ ??
enhances the ‘o’
my 2 cents fro the day. 🙂 back to work, hoping for a poem to be found in #s and $s.
Listening to my new favorite: Joe Bonamassa, live and acoustic from the Vienna opera house. The only failing of my life…no (repeat, NO!) musical talent. But I do love to listen.
margo roby
02/04/2013 at 9:45 am
You might get two of these. I had one disappear as I made the 2 cents changes. I added a comma after terror-born. I might remove it later.
Snap. I love listening to music but as far as anything else, nada. Although at the age of 38 I discovered I could sing. A story for another time!
markwindham
02/04/2013 at 9:55 am
comma definitely worth consideration, works well, and differently, with and without.
Mr. Walker
03/04/2013 at 1:30 am
margo, you swing a mean purse. I like what you did with all those “purse” words – and where you began, that anger that comes after fear.
Richard
margo roby
03/04/2013 at 7:58 am
Why, thank you, Richard. It’s a great exercise that may become a prompt. When I looked up the etymology of purse, I never left the page for the other words. As for that anger (an emotion pretty foreign to me), it surprised me when it happened, so I have never forgotten.
margo