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NaPoWriMo 2026 Day 30 https://quiltr.com/?p=25348 We’ve reached the end! May your words continue to flow! Now get out there and get ready for May Day! The Eve of May amid all the ripples of news the ever presence of it all all day every day all night the world stands on a knife the flats along the river’s edge this green yellow burstin out past the dark winter river gra #BeStrong #dance #dothework #intheneighborhood #Joy #mayday #NaPoWriMo #news #poetry #process #sonnet

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 29 https://quiltr.com/?p=25343 Wednesday, always a bit weepy
ever since we had to stay home
… #covid19 #dothework #family #memory #NaPoWriMo #painting #pleinair #poetry #process #sonnet #work

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 28 https://quiltr.com/?p=25338 …learn lessons of brief white petals
see today’s hills flipping ahead. #dothework #EgoMower #field #flowers #landscape #mowing #NaPoWriMo #poetry #process #sonnet #spring #TakingTimetoLook

The Fledglings Sit

The fledgings sit, wings clipped, 
waiting on a runway.
What will become of their paper planes
soaring deserted valleys
and migrating vast cities?
Before they took their mouths
from their mother's beak,
they learned to not speak,
sit ,and wait, and fold quitely.

©2026 | K.F. Hartless

Cover Art: ” Airport Painting” Karolina Zglobicka

https://youtu.be/ewRjZoRtu0Y?si=6C56hTh6VhRetUqM

GloPoWriMo#28 Today, try writing a poem that follows the same beats: three sentences, six lines: statement, question, conclusion.

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 27 https://quiltr.com/?p=25335 …Petrarch hadn’t heard
of anything like haiku… #challenge #dothework #haiku #NaPoWriMo #poetry #process #sonnet #tanka

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 26 https://quiltr.com/?p=25332 You want an ars poetica? I’ll give you ars poetic! And your little dog too and a host of golden daffodils! #arspoetica #daffodils #dothework #keyboard #NaPoWriMo #pencil #pens #poetry #process #sonnet #words

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 25 https://quiltr.com/?p=25326 Sometimes you need to pour the coffee and close the door. I already hear the distractions calling: you need birdseed! you bought soup makings! you said you were going to make and freeze lasagna! The end of april drawing near Christmas a mere eight months away I wanted to stay in bed but there’s so much to do so much feed #cats #distraction #dothework #NaPoWriMo #poetry #process #quilting #sonnet #TakingTimetoLook #time

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 24 https://quiltr.com/?p=25322 …are you waiting to get in, now?
I lifted the quilt and under she went
curling round until her nose pointed out… #blackcat #Cat #feral #NaPoWriMo #poetry #quilt #sonnet #trust

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 23 https://quiltr.com/?p=25318 …I remember you are gone and good
so my bowl and mug, so starts my day… #coffee #dothework #eggs #food #memory #NaPoWriMo #past #poetry #process #sonnet

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 22 https://quiltr.com/?p=25312 …afraid to lose myself in this my work
which only wants all of me or nothing… #art #ArtistLife #dothework #NaPoWriMo #poetry #process #sonnet

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 21 https://quiltr.com/?p=25307 Shall I write about trees again?
Another round of people loved and lost?
Should there be a line about that time we
loved and wept and hated and wept… #April #cats #coffee #dishes #dothework #NaPoWriMo #poetry #process #routine #snow #sonnet

Name Shame

While in the womb,
and argument brewed:
my dad wanted Katie, 
but my mom was a baron,
so, after my debut,
I ended up Karen. 

To this day, dad calls me Katie.
It's a name with smile, 
a genteel lady.

Throughout the years, I've taken on names
like KK at my childhood baseball games and 
other names that stung like stones:
Kare-bear, Kerrn, and Karry-on,
but I didn't like any of those.

And once, I gave my name away,
after handwritten vows, a few signatures,
and slices of cheesecake.
But I learned the hard way that was a huge mistake,
and I had to fight for my name to reinstate.

Yes, names are more like lingerie,
they attract attention, but boy do they grate.
And over the years, I've been in awe of a few;
I've thrown away others,
novelty excitements, but easily through.

Looking back over the decades,
my names have been more like picture frames—
they never quite capture what they contain,
what's coated in resin,  the part of me unchanged.

My impersonal self, 
my very own divine,
cannot be contained
by a few cursive lines.

A rose by another name 
may not be loved the same,
but it is not the measure 
of what a life contains.

Oh, I've clung to my name like a life raft:
stated it fully, spelling it over and over and over again. 

 I've hidden it, too, it like a pimple,
that's never gone away.

I guess until you have one 
that others find ugly,  
worth bullying,
laughing at
or calling strange,
it's hard to explain
name shame.

©2026 | K.F. Hartless

Cover Art: “Shame” Max Klinger, 1903

https://youtu.be/tFGs7HP15d4?si=lVIAvu4S_HC_eK-E

GloPoWriMo#21: For today, we challenge you to write your own poem in which you muse on your name and nicknames you’ve been given or, if you like, the name and nicknames for an animal, plant, or place. It’s a poem assignment that has taken me away from my own fears of just being who I am. I guess the name Karen is here to stay.

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 20 https://quiltr.com/?p=25302 In the quiet yard
a pile of feathers, yellow, black… #birds #crows #dothework #feather #lifearoundus #mourning #NaPoWriMo #poetry #process #sonnet #TakingTimetoLook

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 19 https://quiltr.com/?p=25298 today the slushing rain has filled
the yard with thirty-ish finches
all arguing for seed and perch… #April #concert #dad #gratitude #LifeAroundUs #love #mom #NaPoWriMo #poetry #snow #sonnet

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 18 https://quiltr.com/?p=25291 …all week i have waited for this
a taste of normal worth the fight. #AlbanySymphonyOrchestra #chopin #concert #music #NaPoWriMo #normal #ohlsson #poetry #sonnet

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 17 https://quiltr.com/?p=25285 These days some days to get through it
you have to turn it all off and
let something else grab your attention
just for some hours, an afternoon… #blackcat #Cat #coping #dothework #landscape #NaPoWriMo #news #poetry #process #sewing #sonnet

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 16 https://quiltr.com/?p=25282 along the driveway, in the woods
yellow daffodils here and there
a few are gifts left by the folks
who lived here before, and who died #daffodils #dothework #garden #legacy #memories #NaPoWriMo #poetry #process #sonnet #spring #TakingTimetoLook