New New Year’s Resolutions

Last year, I used Adi’s blog to make my NYR. Let me account for the results:

I wanted to take part in NaNoWriMo again. This one was a great success! Not only did I participate and won, despite of all the trouble I was into, what with me travelling and being off from my laptop, [...]

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Turn around, PA Wed 126

Poetic Asides Wednesday prompt is “turn around”. Oh, and it’s a shadorma… (I hope).

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Turn around

Discover grandeur

Back in town.

The glamour of it

Filling the pretentious sway

Turns around.

 

© 2011 Mariya Koleva

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Poems by Orange, NaNoWriMo 2010

Here are some poems Orange wrote during her life of main character in my new novel “Orange Lemonpie of the First-Year Stars” which I wrote during NaNoWriMo this passing month of November. I still have some work on it, yet the frenzy is over.

Chapter VI

You see that carpet on the ground,

Which makes [...]

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My Word Wizard prompt of 22.11.2010

My Word Wizard, who I follow on Twitter, gave this prompt: write a Form poem. Here I give it yet another try at the very nice and neat form of Shadorma. In short, its rules: 6 lines, length of lines is as follows – 3, 5, 3, 3, 7, 5 syllables.

Shadorma

It was that

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No one wants to be alone, Nov PAD 11

a “No One Wants To…” poem:

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Inside a beast’s heart sleeps a kitten who has forgotten how to purr; Yet, no one wants to be alone. *** На всеки звяр в сърцето дреме коте, което е забравило да мърка. А никой не иска да бъде самотен.

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Ето и партньорът:

в Ден 25.

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Love poem, Nov PAD 10

a love poem *****

In all things done and then undone

I’ve walked, and looked and waited, too

In truth believed, then un-believed,

For I was seeing and un-seeing you.

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“How long will you love me?” they often ask,

“You always say that Love is forever.”

“Love IS forever,” my answer is clever,

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Slow down, Nov PAD 9

a slow down/never slow down poem

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Take your time and save

your breath will thank you for this

relaxed ambition

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Pro-Pasta, Nov PAD 7

a pro- poem

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Pro-Pasta

They say, “Pasta’s bad for your health”

I say, “Pasta’s great for my mood”

They go, “Pasta ruins your diet”

“But then I am nice and quiet”

Eating T-bones and steaks is barbarity,

Civilised pasta and bread is calamity.

So, is health what we crave, or felicity?

Is truth more [...]

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Looking for…, Nov PAD 6

a “looking for —” poem.

Looking for forgiveness

When you’re at the end of the road

It’s somewhat late for forgiveness

You don’t give it up,

For you can’t give it up.

What more can you hope for -

But the final remnants of you

To get cleaned

And stupefied

By the illusion that forgiveness [...]

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