A poem about two places

The May 30th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to write a couple of ten-line poems—one about a place you loved, and the other about a place you didn’t—and then combine them into a single twenty-line poem. I wrote about Tokyo (specifically, Saturdays in Tokyo), and getaways to Ocean Shores…

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A poem that’s not quite abut two different subjects

The May 28th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, involves writing a poem that includes two different subjects “and creates a bridge between them.” I chose the moon and typewriters, then managed to write a poem that isn’t specifically about either…

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