National Poetry Month AND NaPoWriMo

April is National Poetry Month here in the United States, and it is NaPoWriMo - National Poetry Writing Month, too.  NaPoWriMo is a challenge to write thirty poems during the thirty days of April.  I am participating this year.  So far I have written seven of the thirty poems, six of which I have published online.

My Poetry Editor blog is registered with NaPoWriMo, and so that is where I am posting links to all my poems.

So Happy National Poetry Month, everyone, and Happy NaPoWriMo, too.

Remembering Cris

It's not like Cris Advincula and I ever met, yet I felt a kinship with him that will last beyond his life and perhaps mine, too.

Today Cris died unexpectedly from complications of diabetes.  He was a young man, on his computer, probably creating compelling poetry or images as was his wont.  He was ever an inspiring and community building man, always with a positive outlook.   Even when the tsunami took everything, still he was able to take it in stride.  His strength and his creativity remain as totems and exemplars to us, we who are left behind to try to grasp some corner of his genius before it is blown off into oblivion by the winds of time.

New Poem by Donal Mahoney at Eye On Life

In celebration of memories of New Year's Eves past Donal Mahoney gives us at Eye On Life a fine bit of verse called, A Romeo's Comeuppance.    Elsewhere at Eye On Life the annual poetry contest deadline approaches January 31st, 2012.  Click here for contest rules.

HAPPY NEW YEAR.