Stats - Day 1

poems written = 1

poems written per day = 1

poems remaining = 49

required poems per day = 1.6897

50PoWriMo - I

those awful beasts


i can hear them up to something
in the stillness of the night
every crash and every scuffle
echoes ominously clear
i'm convinced that they're destroying
something that i really like
trying to discern the muffled
tragedies i'm sure i hear
every feline scratching, jumping,
running, pouncing, hiss and fight
makes me paranoid my stuff'll
end up trashed. my wonderings fear
those awful beasts

i need your help / groundrules

mostly for my own reference, this is how this blog will work.

1) between 00:01 on 01/11/10 and 23:59 on 30/11/10 i will write and post 50 poems. they don't have to be good, i don't have to be proud of them, but i do have to make myself do them.
2) at the end of each day i will post some stats about how i'm doing and the rate i will need to write poems at to achieve this goal
3) i may not post more than 2 poems in a day unless the required average rate gets above 2 per day.
4) poem posts will be datestamped the time i wrote the poem. stat posts will be datestamped 23:59


now the actually interesting bit - for you (maybe)

i need people to suggest potential titles for poems for me to write in this time. post them as a reply to this post or @ them to me on the twitter. i won't promise to use them, but let's face it, if i don't i'm going to end up having to find my own inspiration and i know how badly that can go.