‘The Third Symphony’ to appear in this year’s edition of Spindrift

2019/04/18 — 3 Comments

That’s basically the news. I was notified this afternoon.

Spindrift is the art and literary journal of Shoreline Community College, where I studied graphic design a little over ten years ago. (I also worked on the 2008 issue.) A new issue is published annually, usually around late May or early June.

You can read the original version of the poem here: https://ordinaryaveragethoughts.com/2018/04/28/the-third-symphony-a-poem/.

Sadly, they do not have any of their issues posted online, but you can learn a little more here: https://www.shoreline.edu/spindrift/about.aspx.

(18 April 2019)

National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #18 (pt. 2)

2019/04/18 — 3 Comments

Here is my Day 18 poem using the napowrimo.net prompt: Write an elegy in which the abstraction of sadness is communicated not through abstract words, but physical detail. Most of this poem is inspired by what I assume was an inadvertent selfie my father took with his phone a few months before he died.

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National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #18 (pt. 1)

2019/04/18 — 2 Comments

Here is my poem for Day 18 using the POETRYisEVERYTHING prompt: If you had to have one word tattooed on your forehead, which word would you choose? Include that word in a poem three times; try making it the third word of every third line in a poem 12 lines or longer.

I could not think of a word I would want on my forehead—not least of all because I would not want that word to limit how anyone might see me. And if I could think of one, it would either be in teeny-tiny letters in the middle of an eyebrow, or in invisible ink. For the purposes of this poem, I went with the invisible ink variant…

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National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #17 (pt. 1)

2019/04/17 — Leave a comment

Here is my poem for Day 17 using the POETRYisEVERYTHING prompt: Lots of three-syllable words, using this form:

Line 1  three-syllable word
Line 2  three words, two of them with three syllables
Line 3  six words, at least three of them with three syllables
Line 4  eight words, at least four of them with three syllables

New stanza
Line 5  six words, three with three syllables
Line 6 three words, two with three syllables
Line 7  one or two words and one three-syllable word

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