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Lizzy Burnam 🐞 · @egb
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Last poem of NaPoWriMo! The prompt was to write a palinode, in which the speaker abandons a prior position held within the poem.

Really proud of this one! Was a great month for writing but I’m ready for a break now lol.

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Lizzy Burnam 🐞 · @egb
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Lizzy Burnam 🐞 · @egb
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If you’re not a ~mega nerd~ like me, then you might not know: a dirge is a “death march,” a hymnal poetry form used to lament the dead, typically written to be performed at a funeral.

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Lizzy Burnam 🐞 · @egb
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Sorry 😭😭 so tired, this is the best I could do today. Only 3 days left!

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Lizzy Burnam 🐞 · @egb
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Had a hard time getting myself to sit down and write today 🤷‍♀️

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Lizzy Burnam 🐞 · @egb
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“Agoraphobe with a webcam.” — Another off-prompt poem for today.

I tried to pull together my favorite elements from previous work I’ve done this month: narrative, musicality, form, POV. Really happy with how it turned out!

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Lizzy Burnam 🐞 · @egb
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I’ve been reading about American exceptionalism, the utility of referencing the “self” in poems without slipping into narcissism/excessive self-portraiture, & whether or not the “self” is definable at all.

Not sure my thoughts on this are fully-formed yet, but I tried exploring the topic in a poem! (Off-prompt today.)

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Lizzy Burnam 🐞 · @egb
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“Today I learned that Nikola Tesla fell in love with a pigeon” 🕊️⚡️

Wasn’t digging the prompt for today so I wrote about my new favorite fun fact!

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Lizzy Burnam 🐞 · @egb
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The prompt was to choose an abstract concept from a list to use as the title, then write a poem with very short lines and at least one made-up word.

I like it, don’t love it. 🤷‍♀️

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Lizzy Burnam 🐞 · @egb
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I’ve been really proud of the more prosaic / story-based poems I’ve written lately, so I tried to keep up with that same approach in this piece.

Uncertain if it works as well here, but I think the narrative helps ground the metaphors & surreal details a bit more than if they were by themselves.

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Lizzy Burnam 🐞 · @egb
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The day 19 prompt was to write about something that scared you as a child that still haunts you (even a little bit) today.

I love sticking with the full month of writing because around this time the poems just start to happen real easy! Really enjoyed writing this one.

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Lizzy Burnam 🐞 · @egb
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“The ABCs of corporate survival”

Today’s prompt was to write an abecedarian poem, and I had so much fun I did it 2x—the first half is ABCs forwards, the second half is backwards.

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Lizzy Burnam 🐞 · @egb
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I wrote this poem at 3am and then just laid awake in bed the rest of the night 😵‍💫

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Lizzy Burnam 🐞 · @egb
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You want trauma poems? We got trauma poems. Big ones, small ones, poems for mom and dad. Line up, line up, getchya trauma poems, all for sale, poems for everyone, take ‘em home, trauma poems galore!

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Lizzy Burnam 🐞 · @egb
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You want trauma poems? We got trauma poems. Big ones, small ones, poems for mom and dad. Line up, line up, getchya trauma poems, all for sale, poems for everyone, take ‘em home, trauma poems galore!

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Lizzy Burnam 🐞 · @egb
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You want trauma poems? We got trauma poems. Big ones, small ones, poems for mom and dad. Line up, line up, getchya trauma poems, all for sale, poems for everyone, take ‘em home, trauma poems galore!

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Lizzy Burnam 🐞 · @egb
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You want trauma poems? We got trauma poems. Big ones, small ones, poems for mom and dad. Line up, line up, getchya trauma poems, all for sale, poems for everyone, take ‘em home, trauma poems galore!

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Lizzy Burnam 🐞 · @egb
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Is it ok to use an envoi in a free verse poem? Idk. Hope the poetry police don’t mind.

This is one of those poems I probably could’ve kept working on forever — decided to just wrap it up here for today.

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Lizzy Burnam 🐞 · @egb
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I tried to write a longer poem but I guess this is all I had to say about it 🤷‍♀️

2 weeks into NaPoWriMo!

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