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(Hour 21) 18.30pm-19.30pm. BOTH PROMPTS: start & end with running + yawning lion

running problems i. Running From a lion-sized Yawn I’m caught Exhausted keeping This misfit mishmash Of survivors running  ii. Running argument With Ryan ongoing Never resolved & as for this year’s Nobel Prize nomination Definitely out of the running iii. Running nose Dribbling onto a…

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(Hour 14) 11.30am-12.30pm. PROMPT, genre: “nature poem, with a twist”

This is the first few lines of a famous nature poem, put through the ring cycle of Google Translate (English to Esperanto to Bulgarian to Spanish to Arabic to Urdu to Afrikaans to German to Zulu to Yiddish back to a sort of English to…

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(Hour 04) 01.30-02.30am. PROMPT: “10 line narrative poem + 10 lines – 8 lines”

This prompt was a little complicated (aka challenging, but challenging can be good). Write 10 lines of a narrative poem. Add 10 more lines (not just at the end). Then remove 8. I didn’t exactly stick to the ‘rules’. I ‘wrote’ two poems of 10…

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