My Stone Soup Croutons and American Haiku are still happening almost every week.
I still submit entries for Mad Kane's limerick-off every two weeks.
Recently for Patreon members only, I restarted my From Picture to Page series and added my new Tuesday Poems series.
I also have my Comic Book Haiku and whatever longer articles I can fit in weekly for The Ugly Monster.
On top of all that, I'm still trying to write for other publications.
With all that, I knew doing my poem-a-day challenge for April was going to be tougher than usual this year. Much tougher.
For the most part, I was successful.
I still feel cold towards most of what I wrote.
I'm far more proud of the work I was able to squeeze in for The New Verse News and Oddball Magazine.
I think I had to be cold towards my poem-a-day work in order to make the daily deadlines on top of the weekly ones.
It worked. I never fell behind more than one day and quickly recovered when that happened.
I never, not once, broke the Emergency Haiku Glass. I thought I might have to more than once, but I didn't.
No, my Comic Book Haiku don't count in any way towards NaPoWriMo.
If you didn't see a poem under the NaPoWriMo banner, it didn't count towards the challenge.
Otherwise, I could have finished far earlier instead of struggling to write a poem at ten in the evening on day thirty.
I'm a bastard to myself in that way.
I want to go back and revisit these NaPoWriMo poems soon.
I hope I end up liking some of them more than I initially did.
In recent years, the challenge has taken a lot more out of me.
I've started to consider there'll be a time when I won't be participating in National Poetry Writing Month anymore.
For now, I'm still in. I still get too much out of it to stop now.
I'm just glad I can let myself rest today.
Except for the fact that I didn't live up to my goal to create one TikTok Haiku per day.
I did one and never created another.
Maybe that will be my challenge in May.
Nah. I can't be that crazy.
Can I?
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