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WUW and Day 8

I'm still reading THE PROPHET. I did finish reading BONE, NEJMA and SALT. All of them were prose and poetry books, all were inspiring.

I also read an ARC of The Evolution of Emily. It comes out in November. I'll be posting my review closer to the release date.

I'm doing OctPoWriMo. I'm using it for both writing practice and to get an idea of the plot for my NaNoWriMo story:

Like the moon
pulls the tide
Seeing something
triggers my memory
pulls me into nostalgia;

People say
the full moon has powers
I don't see that
I do see
it marks my calendar;

Whether or not
the moon has powers
it pulls the tide
it casts beautiful lining
in the clouds
illuminating the sky and earth
in twilight.


Love, Fida

#Poetteers

Comments

Valerie Cole said…
I didn't know there was an OctPoWriMo! How cool! Is the goal to post a poem a day?
Fida Islaih said…
Yes and in last week's post I left a link to the prompts.
smile4niki said…
I have never been a huge poetry writer, but I am taking a fiction writing class and they said writing poetry can help you with imagery in a scene. I guess it's time for me to learn! Your poem is great!
That was beautiful! Wish I had kept writing poetry, but I can't now, I'm so in love with reading and reviewing books that everything else will have to wait. Good luck with OctPoWriMo! ;)

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