“A new metric month-long ambition! /
This seventh attempt at tradition, /
With change in the scen’ry /
In midst of new green’ry: /
A first try as Bluesky edition.”
Classes are now off to their Autumn 2025 start here; with the academic year underway, I’ll return to my weekly posts, translating the poems from the previous April’s National Poetry Writing Month (commonly abbreviated NaPoWriMo).
“A new metric month-long ambition! /
This seventh attempt at tradition…”
The first few poems in each NaPoWriMo are generally consistent in theme, especially the first, which simply sets out the month’s goal of writing thirty science-themed poems for the thirty days of April: a “metric month-long ambition.” Since I completed this routine for the first time in April 2019, the 2025 poems marked my seventh attempt.
“With change in the scen’ry /
In midst of new green’ry: /
A first try as Bluesky edition.”
The April 2025 poems constituted the first set that used Bluesky as the website for the original postings (“first try as Bluesky edition”); they thus reflected “a change in the scen’ry” in the midst of springtime’s “new green’ry.”
This particular poem is quite straightforward, so I’ll keep the word count short, for once. The new set of 2025-2026 essays will provide “August company” (as well as that of September and onward, throughout this new school year!) to the April 2025 poems.
Chemphasis 