Don’t worry about whether or not you’re caught up in the challenge: Put a song in your heart with today’s NaPoWriMo prompt.
- Write a poem based on the lyrics of a favorite song. Alternatively, write your own song lyrics (with or without music), either as a response to another song or about a different topic.
Remember, if you’d like you’re welcome to share a link to your poem in the comments below. You may also paste the entire poem into the comments, but remember that poems shared in the comments are not considered published in Wild Violet.
About Alyce Wilson
Alyce Wilson is the editor of Wild Violet and in her copious spare time writes humor, non-fiction, fiction and poetry and infrequently keeps an online journal. Her first chapbook, Picturebook of the Martyrs; her e-book/pamphlet, Stay Out of the Bin! An Editor's Tips on Getting Published in Lit Mags ; her book of essays and columns, The Art of Life; her humorous nonfiction ebook, Dedicated Idiocy: How Monty Python Fandom Changed My Life, and her newest poetry collection, Owning the Ghosts, can all be ordered from her Web site, AlyceWilson.com. In late 2019, she published a volume of poetry by her third great-grandfather, Reading's Physician Poet: Poems by Dr. James Meredith Mathews, which also contains genealogical information about the Mathews family. She lives with her husband and son in the Philadelphia area and takes far too many photos of her handsome, creative son, nicknamed Kung Fu Panda.
