National Poetry month « CONNECT/HOOK

The coming month showers us with significance
for solidarity with worthy causes:

Alcohol Awareness Month,

Autism Awareness Month,

Confederate History Month,

Jazz Appreciation Month,

National Child Abuse Prevention Month,

National Poetry Month,

Sexual Assault Awareness Month

In response to this the cruelest of lunar cycles,
I shall again participate in National Poetry Writing Month

(For a challenging writing prompt,
try stringing all these noble causes together in one single poem…)

I decided to join National Poetry Writing Month this year.

When I first heard of NaPoWriMo, I thought the syllables were some kind of Tibetan mantra. Although I don’t quite get the concept of April as “National Poetry Month” (in the U.S.), I am still going to give it a shot. I find the idea of Poetry Month a bit absurd, like “National Child Abuse Awareness Month” (which, ironically, is ALSO April in the U.S. of A).

Are we open to lyrical reality only during that 30-day window?

Does our muse speak to us more in April than in other months?

Are children abused less in April because we are aware of their plight?

Still – I have more than 31 drafts and I need to post them…
so I will be a skeptical participant in Na Po Wri Mo 2014.

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