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iPhone poem (a poem)

2015/05/09 — Leave a comment

Yesterday’s prompt in The Daily Poet, by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano involved using the computer to write, instead of my usual pen and paper. I took it another step further, using my iPhone, and letting the autofill feature guide the sentences. The only drawback turned out to be that the choices were rather limited. Consequently, I went back through what I had written, placing the cursor at different points to check for alternate word choices. I’m not thrilled with the result, but them’s the rules…

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The Adventures of the Contessa and Green Eyed Larry (a poem)

2015/05/08 — Leave a comment

Yesterday’s prompt in The Daily Poet, by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano marked the start of my second time around through the book.  The prompt called for looking up the names of racehorses, then using ten to fifteen of them in a poem that is not about racehorses. (For comparison, last year’s poem written from this prompt can be found here.)

The names I used this time around:

The Contessa
Waffle Stomper
Yorba Linda Trip
Heaven Forbid
Headwind
Aesthetic Ruin
Original Bloom
Questionable Behavior
Klaus Kinski
Nefarious Splendor
Green Eyed Larry
Brand New Larry
Before Coffee
Diamond Sky
Caffeine Serene
Existential Nudge
The Lunchroom
Defacto Princess
A Baby Maybe
Lollipop Flower

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Small poems about big things

2015/05/06 — Leave a comment

Today’s prompt in The Daily Poet, by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano is to write a short poem about a big thing. Last year, I wrote about my self-doubt. This year, I addressed more universal concerns in a series of short poems.

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