Ugh! This was one of those days when I found it hard to get going. I was going to write an abecedarian poem, but I didn’t want to force anything, or have to resort to the ‘X marks the spot’ cliché.
April 2015
Dear Friday…
Dear Friday,
I have a bit of work to do. Otherwise, it’s just you and me.
Love,
Kevin
(10 April 2015)
Seattle haiku (a poem)
A poem from yesterday about a sunny spring day in Seattle…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 9: Thinking about what I write versus what you see (a poem)
I don’t like any of the writing prompts I have seen today, so I am going with my first poem of the day, which is a brief contemplation about poetry…
Dear Thursday…
Dear Thursday,
Well, it’s sunny out, at least. Now if you could just turn up the heat a little…
Love,
Kevin
(9 April 2015)
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 8: Return of the Man in Black (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to write a palinode, a retraction of something in an earlier poem. I opted for a follow-up to my earlier poem, The man in Reno vs the Man in Black.
Dear Wednesday…
Dear Wednesday,
Okay! Up at a reasonable hour for a change. Now, where’s the sun?
Love,
Kevin
(8 April 2015)
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 7: A dream I never want to see again (a poem)
Today’s prompt in The Daily Poet by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano is to write a backwards acrostic—that is, an acrostic in which the last letter of each line spells out a word or phrase. As it turned out, I had a horrible night’s sleep last night (with ugly dreams to match), so picking a word—insomnia—was not difficult…
Dear Tuesday…
Dear Tuesday,
I hate insomnia…
Love,
Kevin
(7 April 2015)
Paris, 2015 (a poem)
Today’s entry in the Writer’s Digest 2015 April PAD Challenge involves writing a ‘things-not-as-they-appear’ poem…
Ordinary Average Thoughts 