NaPo23 Day 13 Inspo

Today’s challenge is to write a your choice of poetry form inspired by the meaning of your name (personal name, family name, or both).

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Image source: The “Behind the Name” website

Alternatively, you can seek inspiration in the Wikipedia “On This Day” article.

[Image description: The words 'Behind the Name' in a simple calligraphic font, black on white. The capital B is in red with a simple, greenish-gold illustration of decorative leaves around it, as though in a Mediaeval manuscript. End image description.]

NaPo23 Day 12 Inspo

Today’s challenge is to write a Reverse Poem inspired by a favourite view.

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Image source: Ordnance Survey article: “11 of Great Britain's best views’ with this being a view of Wastwater in the Lake District

Alternatively, you can seek inspiration in the Wikipedia “On This Day” article.

[Image description: A brightly sunlit view of a large lake with a series of pale, ruddy, jagged rocks in the foreground, and several peaks in the background, reflected almost perfectly in the water. The hills are clothed in a variety of colour, including a bright russet on the left-hand slopes indicating that it's autumn. The sky is a very pale blue, and the atmosphere of the image is one of slightly forbidding tranquillity. End image description.]