2025-01-30T17:36:33Z

gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/national-poetry-month/

<name>D. Moonfire</name>

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<title>Poem - Why Not Let it Be?</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/30/poem-2/" />

<updated>2019-04-30T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/30/poem-2/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<summary type="html">For the final day of National Poetry Month, I present a poem about the Internet culture and unwanted discouragement.

<title>Poem - My Father's Ring</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/30/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-30T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/30/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<category term="the-hound-of-illustir" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="The Hound of Illustir" />

<summary type="html">On the thirthieth day of National Poetry Month, I present a poem about battle and fighting for a cause.

<title>Poem - A Child is Born</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/29/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-29T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/29/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<summary type="html">For the twenty-ninth day of National Poetry Month, I wrote about poem about my son's first breath.

<title>Poem - Love Among Girls</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/28/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-28T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/28/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<category term="desert-child" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Desert Child" />

<summary type="html">For the twenty-eight day of National Poetry Month, the theme is forbidden lesbian lovers.

<title>Poem - Fifty-Three Years</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/27/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-27T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/27/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<category term="broken-typewriter-press" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Broken Typewriter Press" />

<summary type="html">On the twenty-seventh day of National Poetry Month, I wrote a poem about my marriage.

<title>Poem - A Child On a Bed So Soft</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/26/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-26T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/26/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<summary type="html">On the twenty-sixth day of National Poetry Month, I have a little poem about losing a child.

<title>Poem - Yes, Sir, I Understand</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/25/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-25T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/25/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<summary type="html">For the twenty-fifth day of National Poetry Month, I have a little poem about slavery and racism.

<title>Poem - She Speaks For Death</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/24/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-24T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/24/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<category term="sand-and-bone" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Sand and Bone" />

<summary type="html">For the twenty-fourth day of National Poetry Month, I have a little spoiler for a novel I'm planning on writing.

<title>Poem - Kill Them All</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/23/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-23T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/23/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<category term="content-warning" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Content Warning" />

<summary type="html">**Content Warning for Suicide and Murder** For the twenty-third day of National Poetry Month, I have a poem about the horrors of growing up.

<title>Poem - Pumps and Gears</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/22/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-22T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/22/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<summary type="html">For the twenty-second day of National Poetry Month, I have a poem about steam engines.

<title>Poem - The Stone and I Breathe</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/21/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-21T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/21/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<category term="sand-and-ash" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Sand and Ash" />

<summary type="html">For the first and twenty day of National Poetry Month, I wrote a poem about attuning oneself to rock.

<title>Poem - Wisps of Clouds</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/20/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-20T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/20/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<category term="dungeons-and-dragons" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Dungeons and Dragons" />

<category term="flight-of-the-scions" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Flight of the Scions" />

<category term="pack-daughter" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Pack Daughter" />

<category term="son-of-vo" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Son of Vo" />

<summary type="html">For the twentieth day of National Poetry Month, I have a little poem about flying. There is something about fliers I love, both the joy of losing oneself in the clouds but also the freedom to move.

<title>Poem - Unexpected Reduction of Memories</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/19/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-19T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/19/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<summary type="html">For the nineteenth day of National Poetry Month, I wrote a poem about how telepaths view the world.

<title>Poem - Ageless and Invulnerable</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/18/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-18T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/18/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<summary type="html">For the eighteenth day of National Poetry Month, I present a little poem about being immortal. Remarkably, I'm not fond of immortals as a theme.

<title>Poem - I Am Shadows</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/17/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-17T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/17/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<category term="dungeons-and-dragons" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Dungeons and Dragons" />

<summary type="html">For National Poetry Month, I present another poem for day seventeen: I Am Shadows. This is a little piece about assassins using shadow magic.

<title>Poem - Drifting Thoughts</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/16/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-16T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/16/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<category term="second-hand-dresses" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Second-Hand Dresses" />

<category term="her-silken-touch" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Her Silken Touch" />

<summary type="html">On the sixteenth day of April, I present another poem for National Poetry Month. Today we have a little piece about high society and telepathy.

<title>Poem - Damn the Sands</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/15/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-15T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/15/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<category term="sand-and-bone" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Sand and Bone" />

<summary type="html">There are three parts to the so-called war between the sun and moon clans: [Mifúno](https://fedran.com/mifuno/). Mifúno is the personification of the desert, kind of a combination of bad luck and death combined into one.

<title>Poem - The Desert Sleeps</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/14/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-14T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/14/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<category term="raging-alone" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Raging Alone" />

<summary type="html">On the fourtheenth days of April, I present another poem for National Poetry Month. Today, the poem is about the conflict between [Tachìra](https://fedran.com/tachira/) and [Chobìre](https://fedran.com/chobire/), the source of most clan's magic. This also ties into the creation myth for the north western part of the desert.

<title>Poem - Hush Child</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/13/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-13T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/13/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<summary type="html">On the thirteenth day of National Poetry Month, I have a little lullaby. I like cadence poetry a lot more than rhyming. In this case, you have 2/3/3/3 syllable pattern. It also fits the pattern I sing to my kids when they are feeling sick.

<title>Poem - He Said Yes!</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/12/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-12T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/12/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<category term="sand-and-bone" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Sand and Bone" />

<summary type="html">For a little sweetness, I wrote a little poem about a trans girl finding a boyfriend. I figured it was a good unicorn chaser to yesterday's poem but also because there are parts of my world that is accepting of trans and queers.

<title>Poem - Burnt Hills and Embers</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/11/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-11T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/11/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<category term="sand-and-bone" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Sand and Bone" />

<category term="second-hand-dresses" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Second-Hand Dresses" />

<category term="desert-child" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Desert Child" />

<summary type="html">I've organized much of my planned [ideas](https://fedran.com/ideas/) for future novels and stories around three phases related to a world war that marks the passage of [Fedran](https://fedran.com/) from a world of magic to one of industry and steampunk.

<title>Poem - Soft Browns</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/10/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-10T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/10/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<summary type="html">For the ninth day of National Poetry Month, I wrote a little poem about racism.

<title>Poem - Black Skinned Monsters</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/09/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-09T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/09/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<summary type="html">For the ninth day of National Poetry Month, I wrote a little poem about racism.

<title>Poem - Inscribing the Rune</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/08/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-08T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/08/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<summary type="html">On the eighth day of National Poetry Month, I return to one of my favorite topics: crafting.

<title>Poem - A Stranger</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/07/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-07T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/07/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<summary type="html">For the seventh day of National Poetry Month, I have a little one about [body integrity dysphoria](Body integrity dysphoria) or the feeling like a limb doesn't belong to yourself.

<title>Poem - I Love Them All</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/06/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-06T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/06/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<summary type="html">So, to contrast yesterday's poem for National Poetry Month, I have a poem about polyamory.

<title>Poem - Leaving My Love</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/05/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-05T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/05/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<summary type="html">On the fifth day of National Poetry Month, I have a little poem about asexuality.

<title>Poem - Sand Bites Hard Now</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/04/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-04T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/04/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<summary type="html">On the fourth day of National Poetry Month, I write a little poem with my least favorite pattern: rhyming.

<title>Poem - Spin, Drop, Slice</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/03/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-03T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/03/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<summary type="html">On the third day of National Poetry Month, I have a littlie poem about martial practice.

<title>Poem - Bunny Tail</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/02/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-02T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/02/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<summary type="html">For the second day of National Poetry Month, I wrote a little poem about the sexualization and biases of the [dalpre](https://fedran.com/dalpre/) as they integrate into society as "free" people.

<title>Poem - Waiting for Change</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/01/poem/" />

<updated>2019-04-01T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/01/poem/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<summary type="html">For the first day of the month, I wanted to start with a poem about manifesting powers.

<title>National Poetry Month</title>

<link rel="alternate" href="gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/03/31/poetry-month/" />

<updated>2019-03-31T05:00:00Z</updated>

<id>gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/03/31/poetry-month/</id>

<category term="writing" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/categories/" label="Writing" />

<category term="fedran" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="Fedran" />

<category term="national-poetry-month" scheme="gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/" label="National Poetry Month" />

<summary type="html">I've decided to participate with National Poetry Month for the first time. In my case, this means I'm going to write a poem a day in April. As with the rest of my writing this decade, these poems are going to be focused on [Fedran](https://fedran.com/).