24 Poems ~ 24 Hours
It’s a half marathon of hours left before the half marathon of poetry and I hope I can sleep for at least half of them. I have snacks and a nice stash of tea but will I have words? Will any of them work together? Drafting and crafting through the day into the youth of night… I scare myself, but I love words more. See you tomorrow!
Hello everyone! I’m Sam and I’ve been a writer for a pretty long time; however it’s been a while since I challenged myself, so I’m looking forward to what creativity brings! Wish me luck! 💕
In 14 hours, we all will begin this marathon thing. I wanted to wish everyone Godspeed and much success! Im a ball of nerves and excitement! I can’t wait see what everyone turns out.
Testing to make sure I can post… I’ve been writing since I was 12 and I’m from Ohio, USA. Hello to everyone and let’s have fun!
Checking to edit my post now. This is my 4th Poetry Marathon. 🙂
I’ve been looking forward to this since…well…probably since a few hours after finishing the marathon the first (and last) time I participated, in 2017. So how is it, despite 2 years of eager anticipation, I find it’s 18 hours before the starting gun and I don’t feel anywhere near ready?
And since I’m not yet ready, and the moments are ticking by, I’ll end here.
Eager to read your words and to share this 24 hour journey with you!
Just testing this thing out.
Hi! I am Hardika from Delhi,India. This will be my fourth full Marathon. I am not a poet but this event turns me into an amateur one. The marathon gives me a chance to dig deep inside myself. It has become like yearly ritual of introspection. For the Newcomers, welcome to the fam, you all are about to experience the most amazing journey of your lives. If at some point you feel yourself slowing down then post your feelings here in the group and I am sure you will find the elixir to start again! Cheers to Poetry!
Once again Thank you Caitlin Elizabeth Jans and Jacob Jans for making it all possible.
P.S can’t wait to own the T-shirt.
Looking forward to creative purging tomorrow. Participating in this marathon really helps motivate me to pull deep from within. The feeling of camaraderie of writing alongside other poets is inspiring. The prompts work for me, they help me try to do something different and new rather than the familiar writing habits I fall back on.
I surround myself with plenty of healthy food options (lots of fresh fruit and nuts), I work out here and there and take hikes on my property to initiate my poetic intellect. I have plenty of my favorite poetry anthologies and books within in reach, and inspiring movies ready to play. AND MUSIC!!! All this is maintenance, I actually prefer silence when writing.
My biggest challenge with writing poetry is getting too wordy and long. In fact, I don’t know that I have any talent, its really more of an obsession. When given time to rework and revise, my poems grow into lengthy spoken word pieces rather than poetry. The Poetry Marathon has always kind of forced me to do these one-shot type purges that keep my poems raw, unfiltered, and succinct.
I would like to be able to participate from my phone this year, but I am having trouble with enabling cookies through the Word press Browser on my Samsung S9. If I could write from my phone, it would make me a little more mobile throughout the marathon. But I can hang around the old desktop, I was planning on doing that for most of the marathon anyways.
Good luck to all!
When I attempted this three years ago, I failed. Miserably so. Not this time.
I like to write fun poems that rhyme. It rarely takes me more than ten minutes to write a poem. I lean on the couplet scheme too often. I get better when I’m drinking.
My ultimate poetry goal is to publish a book of poems that folks would keep for bathroom reading.