Thursday, April 17, 2025

NaPoWriMo - April, 2025 - Poem: Found In Your Friendship

NaPoWriMo 2025

04/17/25 - Day 17 of 30

NaPoWriMo.net Article


NaPoWriMo Prompt

And now for our daily optional prompt. The surrealist painters Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington moved to Mexico during the height of World War II, where they began a life-long friendship. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem themed around friendship, with imagery or other ideas taken from a painting by Carrington, and a painting by Varo.


My Poem

Inspirational Paintings

(Title Unknown) - Carrington, Leonora



"Exploring River of The Source Orinonoco" - Varo, Remedios




Found In Your Friendship


If I sought the source of your praise

And heard whispered incantations,

I would attend that opera.

Your faithful acclaim bolsters me through all our seasons.


Were I to seek the fountainhead of your support

And discover no more than an overspilled glass,

I would float onward.

Your river’s constant flow carries me across our expanses.


If I found the flame of your encouragements

To be merely sputtering taper light,

I would bask in the glow.

Your candle’s unending beacon is our home.


I seek not for I do not need to know the road ahead.

The map of our friendship is charted as we travel together.


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