Poetry

These poems were written as part of poetry writing month every April, where the challenge is to write a poem a day.

2026

1 - Tanka 2 - Memory 3 - General 4 - Dave 5 - Grumble 6 - Branch 7 - Quorum 8 - Wasn't 9 - Blockade 10 - Grief 11 - Erasure 12 - Relative 13 - Landscape 14 - Drone 15 - Clouds 16 - Speak 17 - Response 18 - Druid's Glenn 19 - Four Seasons 20 - Lir 21 - Outdoor Scene 22 - Inner 23 - Emigration 24 - Night 25 - Tree Cutters 26 - Bank 27 - Pairs 28 - Cart 29 - Past 30 - Fairy

2025

1 - Glossary 2 - Owl 3 - Why Not? 4 - Painting 5 - Breakup 6 - Mint 7 - Winter 8 - Ghazal 9 - Weather 10 - Hotel 11 - Lyrics 12 - Nana 13 - Beauty 14 - An Irish Country Road 15 - Six 16 - Kitchen 17 - Wonder 19 - Candle 20 - Busaras 21 - Improv 22 - Season 23 - Nest 24 - Museum 25 - Wedding 26 - Schrodinger's Sunrise 27 - Pope 28 - A Doctor's Appointment 29 - Stress Dream 30 - Quickly

2024

1 - Plot 2 - Platonic 3 - Surreal 4 - Strangest 5 - Trio 6 - Wisdom 7 - Wish You Were Here 8 - Different 9 - Everyday 10 - Headline 11 - Mono 12 - Tall 13 - Rhyme 14 - Anaphora 15 - Stamps 16 - Place 18 - Older Still 18 - Other 19 - Hunt 20 - Historical 21 - Colour 22 - Fight 23 - Hero 24 - Sound 25 - Questionnaire 26 - Soundings 27 - American Sonnet 28 - Sijo 29 - Taylor 30 - Myth

2023

1 - Summer Jacket 2 - Answers 3 - Reverse 4 - Eight 5 - Coffee Shop 6 - Two Rivers 7 - Lists 8 - Cloud 9 - Quiet Admiration 10 - Sea Shanty 11 - Irish Goodbye 12 - Self 13 - Irish Weather 14 - Valley 15 - Dating 16 - Not 17 - Plant 18 - ABC 19 - Monster 20 - Arche 21 - Confusion 22 - Dash 23 - Numbered 24 - Review 25 - Fires 26 - Portrait 27 - The Mantis of Courage 28 - Consciousness Indexed

2022

3 - Graveyard Glosa 4 - Terminal Prompt 5 - Sleeping-in Beauty 6 - Bedtime Routine 7 - A Picture is Worth a Thousand Bucks 8 - Uncomfortable Twilight 9 - Nine Lives 10 - Haiku 11 - Birth 12 - Little Object A 13 - Sentimental 14 - The Thing About Plants 15 - Uninteresting 16 - Curtal Sonnet 17 - Two Dogs 18 - Five Answers to the Same Question 19 - Command 20 - Wrap Around 21 - Old Colleague 22 - Turning 23 - Desert Island 24 - Simile 25 - Aisling 26 - On the Throwing of Parts in a Well 27 - Haiku 2 28 - Concrete 29 - Simple Rhymes 30 - Cento for Wallace Stevens

Log

Poetry Writing Month 2026

Well, I’ve made it to five years participating. As usual, I thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s not easy to write a poem a day, but that’s what makes it worthwhile. It makes you stop and think for 10/20 minutes every day, which is nice. This year, I managed to complete all 30 poems within the 30 days! I didn’t write one per day (sometimes, life gets in the way), but when I missed days I didn’t wait long to catch up. Looking forward to April 2027 already.

Poetry Writing Month 2025

My fourth year participating :)

Update 8th May, 2025 :: This year I managed to write poems for all 30 of the days, although I am 8 days late. I was keeping up pretty well until about day 21 or so. Overall, I enjoyed it once again and hope to continue the tradition for years to come.

Poetry Writing Month 2024

I’m back again for the third year in a row to participate in this wonderful month of poetry.

Update 20th May, 2024 :: I’ve completed another poetry writing month! This time I was 20 days late! But I managed 29/30 poems which is one more than last year (which itself was one more than the year before). Once again I loved participating in the challenge. For the first seven days or so I was writing a poem every day, then there was a lot of missing days and writing poems in batches later on (usually on the weekends). I had the majority of the poems completed at the end of the month, and over the last 20 days I’ve tried to pick the remaining ones off when I’ve had the time.

At some point I’d like to come back here and pick out a few of my favourites, and maybe even try to keep up the poetry writing throughout the year this time. We’ll see.

Poetry Writing Month 2023

It’s April 1st 2023, a year later. I’ve come back to this page to start adding the new poems for April 2023.

Update Mon May 1, 2023 :: Well, I managed to complete another year of poetry writing month! Unfortunately, I fell behind over the last week, and only managed to complete 28/30 poems. It’s one better than last year at least. Once again, I enjoyed it a lot, already looking forward to next year.

Poetry Writing Month 2022

I’ve set up this page as an attempt to participate in Global Poetry Writing Month (GloPoWriMo).

I haven’t really written any poetry before, but I do like reading it. I’m using GloPoWriMo as an excuse to try learn how to write some.

The goal is to write a poem a day for the month of April. That’s 30 poems! Well, I only found out about GloPoWriMo on the 3rd of April, so I’ve started from then.

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