#napowrimo — Public Fediverse posts

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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

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

NaPoWriMo 2026 Day 15 https://quiltr.com/?p=25274 wrinkled with sleep I am waiting,
listening to the crescendo —
water coming to a quick boil… #coffee #dothework #frenchpress #kettle #lifearoundus #NaPoWriMo #poetry #process #sonnet #TakingTimetoLook

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 14 https://quiltr.com/?p=25270 Today i set up a text replacement shortcut that replaces the letters “h a ha h a” (no spaces, just three ha’s strung together – couldn’t type them without spaces or it would trigger the shortcut ha ha ha) with a long string of ha ha ha’s. #birds #birdsong #dothework #geekystuff #NaPoWriMo #poetry #process #sonnet #TakingTimetoLook #tech #touchgrass #weather

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 14 https://quiltr.com/?p=25270 Today i set up a text replacement shortcut that replaces the letters “h a ha h a” (no spaces, just three ha’s strung together – couldn’t type them without spaces or it would trigger the shortcut ha ha ha) with a long string of ha ha ha’s. #birds #birdsong #dothework #geekystuff #NaPoWriMo #poetry #process #sonnet #TakingTimetoLook #tech #touchgrass #weather

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 14 https://quiltr.com/?p=25270 Today i set up a text replacement shortcut that replaces the letters “h a ha h a” (no spaces, just three ha’s strung together – couldn’t type them without spaces or it would trigger the shortcut ha ha ha) with a long string of ha ha ha’s. #birds #birdsong #dothework #geekystuff #NaPoWriMo #poetry #process #sonnet #TakingTimetoLook #tech #touchgrass #weather

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 14 https://quiltr.com/?p=25270 Today i set up a text replacement shortcut that replaces the letters “h a ha h a” (no spaces, just three ha’s strung together – couldn’t type them without spaces or it would trigger the shortcut ha ha ha) with a long string of ha ha ha’s. #birds #birdsong #dothework #geekystuff #NaPoWriMo #poetry #process #sonnet #TakingTimetoLook #tech #touchgrass #weather

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 14 https://quiltr.com/?p=25270 Today i set up a text replacement shortcut that replaces the letters “h a ha h a” (no spaces, just three ha’s strung together – couldn’t type them without spaces or it would trigger the shortcut ha ha ha) with a long string of ha ha ha’s. #birds #birdsong #dothework #geekystuff #NaPoWriMo #poetry #process #sonnet #TakingTimetoLook #tech #touchgrass #weather

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 13 https://quiltr.com/?p=25263 …a stream of hungry mouths, hungry
for green, for sweetness, for that first
delicious bite of soon-summer… #clover #coffee #dothework #food #grroundhog #NaPoWriMo #poetry #process #rabbit #sonnet

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 13 https://quiltr.com/?p=25263 …a stream of hungry mouths, hungry
for green, for sweetness, for that first
delicious bite of soon-summer… #clover #coffee #dothework #food #grroundhog #NaPoWriMo #poetry #process #rabbit #sonnet

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 13 https://quiltr.com/?p=25263 …a stream of hungry mouths, hungry
for green, for sweetness, for that first
delicious bite of soon-summer… #clover #coffee #dothework #food #grroundhog #NaPoWriMo #poetry #process #rabbit #sonnet

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 13 https://quiltr.com/?p=25263 …a stream of hungry mouths, hungry
for green, for sweetness, for that first
delicious bite of soon-summer… #clover #coffee #dothework #food #grroundhog #NaPoWriMo #poetry #process #rabbit #sonnet

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 13 https://quiltr.com/?p=25263 …a stream of hungry mouths, hungry
for green, for sweetness, for that first
delicious bite of soon-summer… #clover #coffee #dothework #food #grroundhog #NaPoWriMo #poetry #process #rabbit #sonnet

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 12 https://quiltr.com/?p=25251 As I got down my dinner plate
As I grabbed a jar of gherkins
I realized that my kitchen had
an overwhelming memory… #dothework #family #food #hamburger #NaPoWriMo #poetry #process #sonnet #taketimetolook

NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 11 https://quiltr.com/?p=25245 All winter the gray brown edges
of the old hills roll and flutter… #landscape #NaPoWriMo #poetry #seasons #sonnet #watercolor

NaPoWriMo 2026 Day 10 https://quiltr.com/?p=25241 …We used to stare at our TVs
space launches, breaking news stories
a shooting, a woman in pink
then in black, veiled, as we all grieved… #artemisiII #dothework #grief #JFk #NaPoWriMo #poetry #process #sonnet #space

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 9 https://quiltr.com/?p=25232 Oh Oatmeal, oh bowl of oatmeal,
you cook up while the coffee brews
two scoops of flattened grain slide in
to just one cup boiling water #coffee #dothework #food #NaPoWriMo #oatmeal #process #sonnet #uwd #welsh

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 8 https://quiltr.com/?p=25224 late day, opening the front door
the door gleams so white, afternoon
the floor is awash with puddles
white pools which fill with three black cats #blackcat #cats #dothework #NaPoWriMo #process #sonnet #sunlight

NaPoWriMo 2026 Day 7 https://quiltr.com/?p=25215 you might be asking yourself
what does one do now while waiting
for things to fall apart today
while we are waiting to declare
just how crazy we’ve let things get #currentevents #dothework #makegoodart #NaPoWriMo #process #sonnet

NaPoWriMo 2026 Day 6 https://quiltr.com/?p=25207 know what I mean? – I’m trying to
do whatever I can, today. #AIslop #currentevents #dothework #NaPoWriMo #poetry #sonnet

NaPoWriMo 2026 Day 4 https://quiltr.com/?p=25200 Is there such a thing as live-reporting in sonnet form? I guess there is now! I rode high in the bright tow truck looking around my neighborhood while the tattooed driver drove on watching messages popping up we descended from the plateau and below willows were gold and maples threw flowers before us a red carpet we passed over we chatted about his new truck his first new a #dothework #flattire #NaPoWriMo #process #sonnet

NaPoWriMo 2026 Day 3 https://quiltr.com/?p=25195 for years I’ve sewn yards of fabric
many miles of thread all colors
enough to explore space I guess
I’ve counted the days in bobbins #dothework #machine #NaPoWriMo #process #quilting #sonnet

NaPoWriMo 2026 Day 2 https://quiltr.com/?p=25188 dad’s face outlined in fire orange •
where all backyard fades to history #dad #dothework #memory #NaPoWriMo #process #sonnet

7 #haikus for #napowrimo a few years ago. Here they are on my site, finally! #poetry

https://joegallenstein.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/7-haikus/

NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 22 https://quiltr.com/?p=25091 I only know that • the act of sitting still • is a great teacher … #dothework #garden #haiku #landscape #NaPoWriMo #poetry #process #spring #TakingTimetoLook #weather