Musings

If the ground doesn’t shake for too long (a poem)

2014/08/24 — Leave a comment

It’s completely a coincidence that I wrote this last night. The first line popped into my head as I was watching the BBC’s Kate Bush documentary. The parenthetical line sums up part of my experience living in Tokyo—if more than a couple of months had passed since the last noticeable earthquake, I’d start to get a little nervous, figuring that the regular small earthquakes helped release energy that might otherwise build up to later produce a much stronger earthquake.

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Green (a poem)

2014/08/22 — Leave a comment

The August 22nd prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to choose a color, then write a poem using only images of that color. I didn’t quite do it that way, but it worked for me.

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Dreaming? (a poem)

2014/08/21 — Leave a comment

The August 20th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to write a poem of seven-syllable lines about a dream. I’ve been going through a stretch where I’ve been having dreams, but don’t remember them very well (if at all) when I awake, so…

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That laugh she had (a poem)

2014/08/20 — Leave a comment

The August 19th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to write linked haiku, with the last line of the first verse becoming the first line of the second, and so on. It also suggested writing about a favorite flower, tree, or vine, but I chose to ignore that. I did, however, start this one with the last line of the haiku I posted the other day…

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