Technically, I wrote my Day 8 entry for National Poetry Writing Month yesterday, so here is a poem I wrote today.
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Two birds on fire (A poem)
Inspired by a couple of lines from an Anne Sexton poem I saw quoted on Tumblr…
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Anti-climax (a poem)
Thirty-five years ago today, Mt St Helens erupted. The build-up to the eruption was intense; for weeks, the local news monitored the volcano’s status, and talked about what might happen when it finally blew. Of course, it didn’t live up to the hype—at least, not in Seattle…
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The cat and the fireplace (a poem)
The February 18th prompt in The Daily Poet, by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano, is to write a poem based on grey. Since I was not in a frame of mind to ‘[strike] a dismal, dreary tone’, I turned instead for inspiration to memories of a cat we once had who would sometimes nap in the fireplace…
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