Medoriko

May 3, 2023

NaPoWriMo 2023 Complete: 30/30

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That's my 11th consecutive, and successful NaPo in the books. Bow before your NaPo Queen. lol jk please don't.

To be honest with you all, I may as well just change it to "Nadia writes sad shit for a month and nobody is surprised by it"...month. lol But anyway, thanks to the folks who read my sad womp womp shit throughout April, I appreciate it.

Now behold: NaPo 2023, all 30 poems.

Much Love,

-M-

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May 26, 2022

NaPoWriMo 2022: Completionists

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So, I just wanted to take a moment to thank each and every one of you within this group. It does not matter if you completed all 30 poems or only 1 poem this month, this group would not be what it has become since I took over in 2015 without you guys. It is a constant delight to be running this special group, and I sincerely look forward to saddling up each year to go through this literary rollercoaster with everyone. I know dA, and the lit community in particular, is not what it used to be. Other OGs can attest to this. But you guys have been resilient despite that, and it means a lot to me to see this group continue where many others have not. So, yet again, thank you from the bottom of my heart for being some of the very best of the literature community on deviant Art <3 Also, super special shout out to my admin team:

Lionnfart

Xyron7777777

EnzymeDevice

Ya'll were great as usual this year. Thanks for putting up with my bizarre schedule and me in general

And with that, I am proud to announce the brave souls who have weathered the storm and completed ALL 30 days/poems for NaPoWriMo 2022.

Congratulations to:

MEEEEEEEEEEE -- Medoriko

WE DID IT GUYS!!

If you did note the group and I somehow missed you, please let me know. lol

I'm so proud of everyone in this group, whether you completed all 30 days/poems or not. NaPo is a difficult challenge to take on, as it's hard to stay inspired for that long, and sometimes life gets in the way.

However, the people above managed to make it to the end! So, let me recap our amazing prizes.

Points: 2462 (everyone will get 223 points!)

Features for the winners -- Medoriko from personal page and also through: TandemFeatures NaPoWriMo and will be cross posted to CRLiterature

psto1464: critiques or comments, and llamas for the winners

Anonymous Donor: Diamond badges to three random winners

SicariusAlatum : Llamas to all winners

writingbubble : fragments to randomly chosen winners

QuixoticApricot : features to winners

Ink-Singer : Llamas to all winner, and comment/critique + feature to 5 randomly chosen winners

Thank you for all for joining us this year, and I hope to see you guys again (in whatever capacity it may be) again for NaPo 2023. I will be reaching out to prize donators via note tomorrow, points will be distributed out and then will begin with features for all winners tomorrow as well. Take care <3

With love,

-M-

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May 1, 2022

NaPoWriMo 2022: 30/30

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Welp. After 30 long days, I am happy to say that I have finished my 10th consecutive NaPoWriMo. Kinda crazy that I've done this so for so long, but here we are. An entire decade of mostly sad poetry Below are all 30 pieces and I'm really proud of most of them

NaPoWriMo/SaPoWriMo 2022

an immovable force drives the fist that pulls -:

NaPo 2022: Day 1

i remember the feeling of late nights and dark

Napo 2022: Day 2

ᵃⁿᵈ ᶠᵒʳ ʲᵘˢᵗ ᵃ ˡⁱᵗᵗˡᵉ ʷʰⁱˡᵉ ⁱ ᶜᵒᵘˡᵈ ˡⁱᵛᵉ ⁱⁿˢⁱᵈᵉ

NaPo 2022: Day 3

maybe in time life will seem [less] mean-ing/less;

NaPo 2022: Day 4

like rain.fall on a sunday mo(u)rning your tears

NaPo 2022: Day 5

& ᵗʰᵉ ˢᵏᶦᵉˢ ᵖʳᵒⁿᵒᵘⁿᶜᵉᵈ ʸᵒᵘ ᵈᵉᵃᵈ ˢᵒ ᵗʰᵉ ᵈᵃʸ

NaPo 2022: Day 6

i. and i kindly ask that you stop loving me

NaPo 2022: Day 7

i treat late nights like dead poetry these days

NaPo 2022: Day 8

ᵃⁿᵈ ⁱ ᵈⁱᵈⁿ'ᵗ ᵏⁿᵒʷ ⁱ'ᵈ ᵍʳᵒʷ ᵗᵒ ʰᵃᵗᵉ ⁽ʸᵒᵘ⁾ . ᵇᵘᵗ

NaPo 2022: Day 9

lips like fire; i slide ice cubes down my thoat.

NaPo 2022: Day 10

and my pen treats poetry as if it's dead -- so

NaPo 2022: Day 11

your lips were like ashes when your words left

NaPo 2022: Day 12

and it's hard to see anything but trag.ic and

NaPo 2022: Day 13

there's something about stillborn static and low

NaPo 2022: Day 14

when breathing you in is too toxic to digest im

NaPo 2022: Day 15

ˢʰᵉ'ˢ ˢᵉᵖᶦᵃ ᵃⁿᵈ ᶠᵃˡˡᶦⁿᵍ ᵗʰʳᵒᵘᵍʰ ⁽ᵐᵉ⁾; ᵇᵘᵗ ᶦ'ᵐ ᵒⁿᵉ

NaPo 2022: Day 16

i've become afraid to ask about love and where it

NaPo 2022: Day 17

while you were gone i became a writer and wrote

NaPo 2022: Day 18

and my fingertips trail your spine like a love

NaPo 2022: Day 19

so maybe. i'm just crawling my way back into

NaPo 2022: Day 20

ᵃⁿᵈ ʷʰᵉⁿ ʷᵉ'ʳᵉ ᵇᵒᵗʰ ᵇʳᵒᵏᵉⁿ ᶦᵗ'ˢ ˢᵒ ᵉᵃˢʸ ᵗᵒ

NaPo 2022: Day 21

it's pointless to gather stars to give to you

NaPo 2022: Day 22

as i toss another cigarette aside, i think of how

Napo 2022: Day 23

how far can you fall? i've asked myself more

NaPo 2022: Day 24

and there's no one here to push the hair out of my

NaPo 2022: Day 25

i split my brain with a bullet of silk; my

NaPo 2022: Day 26

like the white clouds painting the red lipstick

NaPo 2022: Day 27

my lips were quivering when i lost my soul through

NaPo 2022: Day 28

these hands. the way they grasp for you. they're

NaPo 2022: Day 29

dream for nothing as we watch tomorrow die -- a

NaPo 2022: Day 30

What a crazy month it has been. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to read and comment on my NaPo pieces this year. Much love to you all, and congrats to the other participants also! Until next year <3

-M-

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Apr 23, 2022

Best of NaPo 2022: Week 3

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Hello all! We are back for the next installment of Best of NaPo 2022! This is celebration of the wonderful writers who do their best to push through NaPoWriMo. Again, this is not the full list of poems submitted (there's WAY too many to do that). This is just a small snapshot of all the lovely pieces that are floating within the gallery. So if you want to see more, go give the gallery a peek. This also isn't a journal to showcase the "best" writer. These are just ones that I manage to catch when I peruse the gallery -- or as I'm accepting pieces I may click on one and read it right then. In the mean time, on to the feature.

Best of NaPoWriMo 2022: Week 3

and my fingertips trail your spine like a love

NaPo 2022: Day 19

my heart is aching for the dreams we see in the

promise

Make a wish and skim it That you and I forever

Napo Day 16 (no prompt)

In the drafts folder of my e-mail program, there

Unsent

[be]Long[ing] If I say that I don't have a

d19 of NaPo22

I stick my hands between his ribs and pull: with

NaPoWriMo Day 21 - Your Weapon Becomes You

i love you in the way certain secret things are

(21/30) violent delights / violent ends.

Raking up the leaves That fell during last autumn.

Raking Leaves

I am a little fish, with little gills & little

I am a little fish

this is the way we press our fingertips close the

reunion

His whiskers Make whispers Across my cheek,

Tabby Kisses (NaPo#21)

Here's to the unicorns Prancing through our dreams

Here's to the Myths

My dear wife is not a cadaver Even though the

A Limerick with Bite [17]

there's a tickle of fear rolling down my spine

riot gear

winter's harsh shapes grow soft and round and

NaPo 19: The Return of Color

Please give these pieces a looksie, as they are well worth the read . I will be back with Best of Week 4 at the end of NaPoWriMo! And I will also follow that up with a "Best of NaPo 2022" as well

-M-

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Apr 17, 2022

Best of NaPo 2022: Week 2

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Best of NaPoWriMo 2022: Week 2

ᵃⁿᵈ ⁱ ᵈⁱᵈⁿ'ᵗ ᵏⁿᵒʷ ⁱ'ᵈ ᵍʳᵒʷ ᵗᵒ ʰᵃᵗᵉ ⁽ʸᵒᵘ⁾ . ᵇᵘᵗ

NaPo 2022: Day 9

have you found him? as in, Him? She? It? They?

gods

the empty room tries to keep memories -- new times

NaPo 9: Moving

midnight is nothing: they call it the witching

Midnight

Divination Deck of cards imbued with cosmic

d8 of NaPo22

Faceless. Nameless. Anonymous. Aimless. Have you

Graceful Moments

and it’s on these nights, darling, when the music

soulfree

I'm not your statistic, Not a number, Or a

Napo Day 14 (make it rhyme) (week 2 challenge)

We are all of us a maze with our truest selves

A Maze-ing

it's probably nothing. the wind kept silent as the

stairway

Talk to me as if it hurts to look at me. I want to

NaPoWriMo Day 14 - Witness

There are solitary nights with coffee, taken black

Respect the Work

In a crowd yet all alone no one can see The pain

Invisible [14]

no one tells you how to haunt your own body.

(13/30)

On a warm day, When the wind is coming off the

Ocean Breeze

eating emotions for dinner, I go to bed feeling

pin my heart like a butterfly because it flutters

Please give these pieces a looksie, as they are well worth the read . I will be back with Best of Week 3 once we are into week 4. Thanks guys!

-M-