My Day 30 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to ‘write a poem in the form of a series of directions describing how a person should get to a particular place.’ This is a small little worldmore than deserving of these redundant descriptors Beyond these walls may as well bea thick [...]
Tag: April 2021
Dear Friday…
Dear Friday, End of the month already? Love, Kevin (30 April 2021)
Dear Thursday…
Dear Thursday, My apologies. It was a busy day. Love,Kevin (30 April 2021)
National Poetry Writing Month 2021, Day 29: Through the windows
My Day 29 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to imagine a scene through a window. I look at windowsall day long They show me other lives other worlds other stories other joys other sorrows other horrors other choicesother ways of being thinking doing having learning loving hating living dying killing [...]
Dear Wednesday…
Dear Wednesday, Back to work—for a while, anyway. Love, Kevin (28 April 2021)
National Poetry Writing Month 2021, Day 28: Questions
My Day 28 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to write a poem that poses a series of questions. QuestionsQuestionsQuestions People want to knowif I have any questions Why do I always have to have questions?What if I understood the first time?What if I want to think about what I’ve just [...]
National Poetry Writing Month 2021, Day 27: Paroxysms of agnosthesia and other minor details
My Day 27 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to write a poem inspired by an entry from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. I chose several entries, and managed to address them all. The name of the entry referenced appears at the beginning of each section of the poem. agnosthesiaThe view from [...]
Dear Tuesday…
Dear Tuesday, So you’ll be normal, right? Love, Kevin (27 April 2021)
National Poetry Writing Month 2021, Day 26: Sometimes you don’t even have to try—it just happens
My Day 26 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to write a parody. When it comes to song parodiesI’m no Michael Scott or Weird Al—no “Beers in Heaven”, “My Bologna”, or “Another One Rides the Bus” My most famous parodycomes from the early 1970s— Sunshine on my shouldersgives me sunburnSunshine in [...]
Dear Monday…
Dear Monday, So is there a pre-shadow shadow phase or what? Love, Kevin (26 April 2021)