If it’s April, it must be:
Hello, NaPoWriMo
Good morning, NaPoWriMo, and good night.
Whether I have written or will write,
you tend to fill my day with obligation
for rhymed and metered concentration.
Social engagements––a thing of the past.
No time for conversation and repast
except for sandwiches and coffee quickly quaffed
in glow not candlelight (but just as soft)
that shines from my computer screen
from morn till night, with no relief between
as I strain for yet another rhyme.
For this is how I spend my time,
NaPoWriMo! With fourteen days to go,
it is impossible to just say, “No.”
No matter how I yearn to just resume my life––
to end these rhymes with which my days are rife––
I have to finish what I started
lest I be branded fickle-hearted.
I read somewhere that half the poets who first committed
to write a poem a day have by now quitted
the task they took an oath to do;
but still a few
plod on with me. We’ll never meet,
though we walk down the same blank path with metered feet.
Perhaps one day we’ll meet in poetry heaven or hell
knowing we did this task completely if not well!
In conclusion, I have heard
That in Hawaii, there’s one word
that means both hello and good bye.
It means love, affection, adios and hi!
That word, “Aloha,” covers all from dark to light;
and so, Aloha, NaPoWriMo, and good night!
For dVerse Poets, the prompt is “Make up your own name for a micro season.”
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
A poet’s micro season, I love to say ‘Hello, NaPoWriMo’! I relish that ‘obligation for rhymed and metered concentration’. You’ve captured it so well, Judy, in these lines:
‘No time for conversation and repast
except for sandwiches and coffee quickly quaffed
in glow not candlelight (but just as soft)
that shines from my computer screen’
and
‘…We’ll never meet,
though we walk down the same blank path with metered feet.’
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Thanks, Kim, for bringing it all together!!
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You’re most welcome, Judy!
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So good Judy.
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Oh, I remember the NaPoWriMo season. Good one.
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Love how you used the “April, most huge, challenge of all”! Clever, Judy.
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Nice! 👏
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LOL Judy – well said (and rhymed)! I have never done NaPoWriMo, because in April I do the A to Z Challenge for which I give myself evermore intense challenges. In 2024, I wrote about Commodities which i worried might be a bit dry (as it turns out, it wasn’t) so I did an alphabetically named poem form poem to accompany each one so I know exactly what you are talking about. I used to feel this about dVerse prompts because I felt obliged to comment on every single post (and then reply to every comment on mine) so now I am more selective about prompts and whose posts I comment on…
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“Perhaps one day we’ll meet in poetry heaven or hell
knowing we did this task completely if not well!”
Kudos for finishing it! I’ve had trouble keeping up with writing daily during April and also November when Writer’s Digest hosts the Poem-A-Day Challenge.
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