Mother’s Day, 2020…
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Poetry
We don’t have cloudbursts where I live (a poem)
I was listening to ‘Cloudburst on Shingle Street’ by Thomas Dolby, which got me to thinking about rain…
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Fermata (a poem)
Impressions from another long day…
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Fade (a poem)
After a long day…
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At least now the killer bees will have someone to play with (a poem)
Brought on by articles in the New York Times and Washington Post…
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Pruning (a poem)
We return you now to our regularly scheduled programming…
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National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 30
I went with an alternate prompt for Day 30: ‘Make a found poem from some of the lines you wrote in your NaPoWriMo poems. Use at least 8 different poems and write a poem at least 10 lines long.’ Each line of this poem comes from earlier poems. Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 29
I took a contrarian approach to the napowrimo.net prompt for Day 29: ‘write a paean to the stalwart hero of your household: your pet.’ Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 28
I took kind of a sideways approach to the napowrimo.net prompt for Day 28: ‘Describe a bedroom from your past in a series of descriptive paragraphs or a poem.’ I didn’t really give a description, or limit myself to a single bedroom… Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 27
Napowrimo.net made me their featured participant today for my Day 26 poem. Woo-hoo!. Meanwhile, I followed the napowrimo.net prompt for Day 27: writing a ‘poetic review of something that isn’t normally reviewed.’ Technically, the subject I chose is being constantly reviewed, but there you go… Continue reading