DISSOLUTA NEGLIGENTIA PROPE DOLUM EST

2013. and…time to face the truth.

actually the conditions of the world nowadays are perfect for you to understand what ignorance is.

ignorance, is not just to be intended as a lack of knowledge or culture, but mostly as negligence and laziness: these all are signs of a closed mind. and that’s where ignorance basically lives.

IGNORANCE IS A DISEASE.

and should be given the same importance you give any other disease ( whether you care too much or not at all ).

if you are ill outside, you can’t fully be yourself, you can’t fully see yourself, and you can’t fully live.

if you are ill inside, well, is the same, no, it’s even worst.

you will miss the tears and the shouts of joy, you will never play with freedom: and when happiness will smile at you, singing your name, you will not see it, because you don’t know its shape, and you will not hear it, because you don’t know its symphony.

ignorance stands in the way of your happiness.

is this what you wish for?

 

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NAPOWRIMO CONTEST // 23rd APRIL 2013 // HOURS OF PEACE, MILES OF LOST TIME

And now our prompt. Today, let’s try writing triolets. A triolet is an eight-line poem. All the lines are in iambic tetramenter (for a total of eight syllables per line), and the first, fourth, and seventh lines are identical, as are the second and final lines. This means that the poem begins and ends with the same couplet. Beyond this, there is a tight rhyme scheme (helped along by the repetition of lines) — ABaAabAB. Happy writing!

 

 

hours of peace, miles of lost time

dreaming a forsaken illusion

oh, electromagnetic mine!

hours of peace, miles of lost time

oh, so alive, our minds entwine!

oh, so deep, red blood transfusion!

hours of peace, miles of lost time

dreaming a forsaken illusion

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NAPOWRIMO CONTEST // 21st APRIL 2013 // 17 FORTUNE COOKIES

And now the prompt! Today I challenge you to re-write Frank O’Hara’s Lines for the Fortune Cookies. Hopefully, you won’t have any problem — after all, the ideal fortune is a one-liner, and one-liners thrive on a very poetic compactness of expression. This should be a good chance for all of us to practice that, and amusing to boot. Happy writing!

 

 

you are so unique and different, like every other human being.

you will suck(cess) in life!

you will meet Jesus soon, but you won’t recognize him.

you will share this fortune biscuit on instagram, facebook, twitter, pinterest and every other fuckin’ social network.

you are beautiful. that’s it.

you will marry a dickhead and you will get used to it.

it’s actually better you marry rich. trust this little cookie.

the future is stupid. you also are. it’s gonna work.

oh, it seemed a good idea to you at the time. am i right?

you are so disappointed you turned into everything you said you’d never be. ain’t you?

you will read a book tomorrow, instead of watching your daily porno and masturbate. yes i know.

common people envy you.

you will buy some good weed and deliver it to the address on the back. now.

you’ve just eaten chinese. are you sure?

you are a (smart) ass.

you were the fastest out of millions of sperms.

i was trying to write a good compliment but nothing came to mind.

 

 

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NAPOWRIMO CONTEST // 18th APRIL 2013 // LIFE IS TIME OUT OF MIND

And now our (as always, optional) prompt! Today’s prompt comes to us from Cathy Evans, who challenges us to write a poem that begins and ends with the same word. You could try for something in media res, that begins and ends with “and,” for example. Or maybe “if.” Or perhaps you could really challenge yourself and begin/end your poem with a six-dollar word like “antidisestablishmentarianism.” (Just kidding!) Whatever word you choose, I hope you have fun with it!

 

 

i smile.

i fail, i try a major scale and search for a new light.

i smile.

i paint, i destroy and it’s fire i ignite.

i smile.

i’m pure chaos,  i say bye and vanish in the night.

i smile.

i’m the excesses of life, i’m either black or white.

i smile.

regardless of your kind, i’m out of your sight.

i smile.

i broke all the mirrors, life is time out of mind.

i smile.

 

 

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NAPOWRIMO CONTEST // 17th APRIL 2013 // A REGARDLESS MIND

And now our (totally optional) prompt! Early on in the month, I asked you to write a valediction — a poem of farewell. Today, let’s try the opposite, and write poems of greeting. There’s lots of things you could greet. The spring? Your new stapler? A favorite classmate? An addition to the menu at your local cafe? The subject’s up to you — now get out there and say “hello!”

 

 

white nights

stolen images

the power of luxury

the luxury of power

homeless faith

fire in my veins

mascara down my eyes

invisible bruises

broken words

broken world

killing days

another mistake

chased by the man in grey

a shame for what went wrong

 

to your colors i’m blind

it’s my freedom that i signed

a thank

a regardless mind

 

 

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NAPOWRIMO CONTEST // 13th APRIL 2013 // FROM PUB TO DRUNK

And now our (totally optional) prompt. Yesterday’s prompt of saying what you’d never say was sort of a doozy — rather emotionally intense, I think, for a lot of you! So for today, let’s relax. Your prompt for today is simply to take a walk. Make notes — mental or otherwise — on what you see on your walk, and incorporate these notes into your poem. A bit more serene and observational than yesterday, and hopefully a nice, calming poem to begin your weekend with. Happy writing!

 

 

OBVIOUSLY THEY ARE SONGS MIXED TOGETHER.

WHAT I COULD THINK OF AT THE MOMENT AND THE SENTENCES I WAS ABLE TO WRITE DOWN.

SITTING IN PUB, FROM PUB TO PUB, FROM PUB DO DRUNK.

THE LIBERTINES.

 

the boy who liked to kick at the world

the world kicked back a lot fuckin’ harder

i know you lie i’m still in love with you

you can’t stand me now…

have we enough to keep it together?

or do we just keep on pretending

that our luck is never ending?

 

if you wanna try…if you wanna try

there’s no way else you can do…

oh oh oh

i know you lied all you do is make me cry

( oh all those words that ain’t true… )

can take me anywhere, i can take you everywhere

that you wanna go…

 

and if i have to go…i will be thinkin of your love

oh somehow you’ll know..you’ll just know…

thinkin of you….i was carried away….

we’ll meet again someday

but my boy there’s a price to pay.

 

all you can be is given in your hands:

trust in me and take me by the hand.

we will die in the class we were born

but it’s a class of our own my love!

 

( ignorant faces that bring this town down )

 

i try to make you see…but you don’t wanna know…

what became of the dreams we had??

what became of forever??

well, we’ll never know.

 

is it cruel or kind not to speak my mind and to lie to you?

rather than hurt you…

well i’ll confess all of my sins after several large gins

but still i hide from you..

hide what’s inside from you.

 

and all the memories of the pubs and the clubs and the drugs and the tubs

we shared together…

will stay with me forever!

but all the highs and the lows and the toes and the froes they left me dizzy..

and all the memories of the nights, and the fights and the blue lights

we flew together,

well i hope they’ll fly forever..

i no longer hear the music…

 

and the love bell rings

when you say you heart still sings

when you are with me

oh won’t you please forgive me?

i no longer hear the music…

 

and now,

what you are gonna do Katie?

you are a sweet sweet girl

but it’s a cruel cruel world…

my safety pins are none too strong katie…

to hold my life together..

and i never say never yeh i’ll never say never again.

 

but since you said goodbye…polka dots fill my eyes..

but since you said goodbye…polka dots fill the sky..

and i don’t know why.

 

 

with love.

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