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Moonflower Mentoring

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Moonflower may be your

creative rescue remedy!

Do you need to jumpstart your creativity?

Creativity Guide & Writing Mentor

Jacquelyn Markham, author of Rainbow Warrior & other titles,

former professor & workshop leader

offers services as

Creativity Guide & Writing Mentor.

If you need inspiration to spark

your creativity and writing,

consider Moonflower Mentoring:

Nurture Creativity
Foster Writing Practice
Inspire New Material
Guide Current Projects
Review Mentee’s Work

Dr. Markham uses a variety of approaches to suit each person’s creative process:

one-on-one, workshops, and/or intensive programs.

In person and virtual options available. To learn more about Moonflower Mentoring:

Email: Moonflower Mentoring at jacquiepoet3@gmail.com

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A Gentle Rain at Dawn

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Hello dear readers,

How is your poem-a-day challenge going (if you have chosen to participate)? If not, I hope you are enjoying reading the work of so many dedicated poets!

I have been writing everyday, but not blogging everyday. Today, I’ve decided to post my poem in an image because it got a little long. The prompt asks us to compare details from today with the past. To see all of the prompt, look below for Maureen’s prompt for Day 29 from Napowrimo or Na/glopowrimo (National/global poetry writing month!)

“Finally, here’s today’s prompt (optional, as always). In “After Turning the Clocks Back,” Jennifer Moxley links present with past, using a few well-placed details to invoke both a sense of the daily “now” and a nostalgic sense of the speaker’s long-ago life. In your poem today, similarly, compare your everyday present life with your past self, using specific details to conjure aspects of your past and present in the reader’s mind.” (napowrimo.net)

–a bluebird in the rain & My penultimate poem offering for Day 29:

Note: My blog is most active during April’s Poem-a-day Challenge, but I hope you will visit any time of year.

Also, please check out my writing mentoring service here: Moonflower Mentoring. Are you interested in a creativity mentor to get you over a dry spell? Or, one to assist with craft or to work one-on-one on a specific piece of writing? If so, please email me for more info: jacquiepoet3@gmail.com.

Day 26 Tango haiku & Be Brave cinquain

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Greetings poets & lovers of poetry!

Today’s prompt guided us poets to use several poetic sound techniques—alliteration, consonance, and assonance.  I added to that a couple of small poetic forms: the haiku (3 lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables) and the cinquain (5 lines of 2,4,6,8,2 syllables). Fun!

The Prompt from Napowrimo.net: “And now for our (optional) prompt. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that involves alliteration, consonance, and assonance. Alliteration is the repetition of a particular consonant sound at the beginning of multiple words. Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds elsewhere in multiple words, and assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds. Traci Brimhall’s poem “A Group of Moths” provides a great example of these poetic devices at work, with each line playing with different sounds that seem to move the poem along on a sonorous wave.”

Tango Till: Haiku

Mango, mango, will

you do the tango till dawn?

Tango me all night.

            Jacquelyn Markham 4/26/24

Be Brave: Cinquain

O blue

melancholy

mood melancholy me

sun sparks diamonds on blue river

be brave.

            Jacquelyn Markham 4/26/24

Moonflower Mentoring:

Nurture Creativity
Foster Writing Practice
Inspire New Material
Guide Current Projects
Review Mentee’s Work

Dr. Markham uses a variety of approaches to suit each person’s creative process:one-on-one, workshops, and/or intensive programs.In person and virtual options available. To learn more about Moonflower Mentoring:Email: Moonflower Mentoring at jacquiepoet3@gmail.com

Moonflower Mentoring

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Moonflower may be your

creative rescue remedy!

Do you need to jumpstart your creativity?

Creativity Guide & Writing Mentor

Jacquelyn Markham, author of Rainbow Warrior & other titles,

former professor & workshop leader

offers services as

Creativity Guide & Writing Mentor.

If you need inspiration to spark

your creativity and writing,

consider Moonflower Mentoring:

Nurture Creativity
Foster Writing Practice
Inspire New Material
Guide Current Projects
Review Mentee’s Work

Dr. Markham uses a variety of approaches to suit each person’s creative process:

one-on-one, workshops, and/or intensive programs.

In person and virtual options available. To learn more about Moonflower Mentoring:

Email: Moonflower Mentoring at jacquiepoet3@gmail.com

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