Dear Friday,
Forgive all the sneezing. I don’t know what’s going on today…
Love,
Kevin
(22 May 2015)
Musings
The truth of the matter (a poem)
This is my second time using the Langston’s Titles prompt in The Daily Poet, by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano. The prompt presents the titles of a number of poems by Langston Hughes; the challenge is to use eight or more of them in a poem. The poem is to be about ‘something beautiful or something you wish would happen’, but I wanted to avoid using any of the same titles I used in last year’s poem, so it ended up being something different…
Dear Thursday…
Dear Thursday,
We’re already off to a better start.
Love,
Kevin
(21 May 2015)
An episode from the summer of ’87 (a poem)
Today’s prompt in The Daily Poet, by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano is one of the more interesting ones in the book. At first, it bugged me, but now I see it as having its own peculiar beauty. To mark the anniversary of the death of Gilda Radner, the idea is to think about her Emily Litella character, and write a poem that includes words or phrases that you have misheard. Unfortunately, they got their Gilda characters mixed up, and referenced Roseanne Roseannadanna (as Rosanna Rosanna Danna) instead. All very meta, as the kids might say.
Anyway, I chose instead to revisit an episode that began with me misunderstanding a conversation that took place in the next room…
Dear Wednesday…
Dear Wednesday,
Grrr…
Love,
Kevin
(20 May 2015)
Dear Tuesday…
Dear Tuesday,
Okay. I should not have had that chocolate milk this morning…
Love,
Kevin
(19 May 2015)
Dear Monday…
Dear Monday,
I think that one muscle next to my shoulder blade has it in for me. See if there’s something you can do, okay?
Love,
Kevin
(18 May 2015)
Short poem (a poem)
Today’s prompt in The Daily Poet, by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano suggests taking an index card, turning it so it is vertically oriented, then writing a poem. The small size of the index card would result in short(er) lines. As it turned out, I had a rather narrow space in my journal/sketchbook that would work quite nicely for this one…
Dear Sunday…
Dear Sunday,
I was hoping for another sunny day. What happened?
Love,
Kevin
(17 May 2015)
Bill Drummond: Live From The Dead Sea—Caught by the River
I thought this article by Bill Drummond was worth sharing:
Live From The Dead Sea – Caught by the River.
I particularly appreciate these two statements:
[M]ostly I’m for politics that are about ideas. Ideas that are fluid and evolving. What I’m against is politics based on tribalism, be that class, religion or nationalism. And I’m obviously against politics based on dynasty or personalities.
and
I don’t want politics based on a notion of what we think our country once was and may be again.
Not that any of our politicians will be listening…
(16 May 2015)
Ordinary Average Thoughts 