The November 25th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to ‘[w]rite an experimental poem to all the things in your life that you either worry about, are afraid of, or events that have shaken you up [sic]. Allow the repetition of “dear” to guide you…’ I wouldn’t call any of these ‘experimental’, but I think I have the rest covered…
Poetry
Business as usual (a poem)
I couldn’t help but watch the news last night…
‘Boy Carrying Toy Gun Shot Dead By Police’ (a poem)
This is why I try as much as possible to avoid the news…
You know… (a poem)
The November 21st prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to ‘[w]rite a poem to the “You”.’ (I didn’t get to the part about using three of my favorite words, or lots of words with an “oo” sound, though.)
Why I don’t drink wine anymore (a poem)
The November 21st prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to ‘[w]rite a poem that begins After three glasses of wine or After three shots of whiskey and continue writing about the antics that follow.’
brittle (a poem)
Working from the Cat Coule poetry writing exercise at http://youtu.be/adjE0ptY0FA.
The Slow Demise of Modern Democracy (a pessimist’s poem)
The November 19th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to ‘[w]rite a poem that has more multisyllabic [sic] words than single syllabic [sic] words’. Apparently, the following is what happens when I purposely try to increase the syllable count…
an incomplete list of what I want (a poem)
Partly inspired by some of my recent reading…
Reign o’er me (a poem)
Last night I was watching the 2007 movie Reign O’er Me, starring Don Cheadle, Adam Sandler, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler, and Saffron Burrows…
imaginary picket line (a poem)
No prompts—just working from a random phrase that popped into my head…
Ordinary Average Thoughts 