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For my New Year’s resolution this year I am offering myself a challenge that I once kept with little difficulty. I resolve to write a new poem every day for the entire year. Some days may be simple haikus, other days may include harder closed-form poems such as pantoums or sestinas. I will try many styles, but try every day. I know that the only way to get better as a writer is to write often. That is what I plan to do this year.
What will your New Year’s writing resolution be? Will you join me in my poetic challenge? Do you have a different writing challenge for the year? Leave your thoughts in the comments.
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Good one..I too had a interest in poetry but i never tried to write one..Keep it up.
Poetry is a natural and simple way of expression. Free verse is a good place to start.
Cherrie
New Year haiku dawns
with blizzards and floods and drought
we etch each day bright
Softly spoken, but in my head
an explosion.
In my youth I wrote and wrote
but underneath now, I remain unsaid.
Break free those
cobwebs in my head
banish time and rocks and boulders
that keep me where I sat and said
a disgusting lie-
I am not read.
Wow- that sucked. But I did my poem for the day. Thank you for the cue-