My Real Epilogue on NaPoWriMo 2020

This is the most emotionally taxing National Poetry Writing Month challenge that I actually finished.

NaPoWriMo, Day Thirty, Poem Thirty-One

Epilogue

NaPoWriMo, Day Thirty, Poem Thirty

Update: "Working..." has been submitted.

NaPoWriMo, Day Twenty-Nine, Poem Twenty-Nine

Motivation

Here is today's poem
just before work begins.

I've closed the camps.
I've reopened America.

NaPoWriMo, Day Twenty-Eight, Poem Twenty-Eight

Post-Meet

Night is done
pretend to all
reason prevails.

Last NaPoWriMo Update

Exhausting weekend. Exhausting morning. If I get another surge later today, I may finish the rest of the month's poems.

I'm getting antsy, wanting to write things I know I can't share here.

Disappointments all throughout the month with a smattering of pleasant surprises. Can't wait to put this challenge behind me and write less in the public eye next month.

NaPoWriMo, Day Twenty-Seven, Poem Twenty-Seven

Cast Off

Someone
let me go

set me on
own astray

NaPoWriMo, Day Twenty-Seven, Poem Twenty-Six

Nonsense verse to catch up.

Thugs

Answers
your pleas
with shrugs

Your favors
under wrap,
rolled up rugs.

NaPoWriMo, Day Twenty-Six, Poem Twenty-Five

Play to Lose

Dead decide feelings
based on online polls
nobody takes.

NaPoWriMo, Day Twenty-Five, Poem Twenty-Four

Haunts

Can't stand
chance of ghost

meeting up
on street.

NaPoWriMo Update

I have a writing prompt my girlfriend gave me. I'll use it for today's National PoetryWriting Month entry after I'm done with my Stone Soup Croutons piece. I'm taking things slow today.

NaPoWriMo, Day Twenty-Two, Poem Twenty-Two

Hitch

Only start time,
face mask,
fogged lenses.

NaPoWriMo Thoughts

We're at the home stretch. I'm keeping up. I can't help but think it's all downhill from here.

Unless some inner surge comes out of nowhere, I might have to put disclaimers and apologies before each of the last nine poems.

NaPoWriMo, Day Twenty-One, Poem Twenty-One

Back to Work

Essentials say
thought begets
more thought,
bad for economy.

NaPoWriMo, Day Twenty, Poem Twenty

Colorado, Liberated

Pulling selves up
by the flag
is not desecration.

Pragmatics
just leads
to other isms.

NaPoWriMo, Day Nineteen, Poem Nineteen

Finally. Based on my girlfriend misnaming the name of one of my poetry chapbooks. starts with nonsense, goes from there.

Hired Help

Hundred dollars
per hand shoot
high job.

Make new
job title,
own market.

NaPoWriMo, Day Nineteen, Poem Eighteen

Almost caught up for today.

Update: Submitted.

NaPoWriMo, Day Nineteen, Poem Seventeen

Still catching up.

Reopened

House party
crowded sounds
party back on.

It's okay
every one.
They have

their friends'
parents' parents'
permission.

NaPoWriMo, Day Eighteen, Poem Sixteen

Catching up again.

Rest

Rise
baptize

you can
fall again

NaPoWriMo, Day Fifteen, Poem Fifteen

In response to the videos Black Byrd has tagged me on.

Comeback
For Black Byrd

The reason sought,
on-top wisdom
sans mountain.