Day Twenty-Nine

Happy twenty-ninth day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, everyone.

We have two featured participants today: Frank Bekker, who brings us a sweet sijo about a cat, and Brittany Mishra, whose poem in response to Day 28’s sijo prompt explores the concept of value.

Today’s daily resource is Poems for These Hours, an Instagram account that shares new poems regularly.

And now for our optional prompt. If you’ve been paying attention to pop-music news over the past couple of weeks, you may know that Taylor Swift has released a new double album titled “The Tortured Poets Department.” In recognition of this occasion, Merriam-Webster put together a list of ten words from Taylor Swift songs. We hope you don’t find this too torturous yourself, but we’d like to challenge you to select one these words, and write a poem that uses the word as its title.

Happy writing!