Technically, I wrote my Day 8 entry for National Poetry Writing Month yesterday, so here is a poem I wrote today. The smoke will rise in good time leaving ash and fragments of bone the proverbial trail of tears a regret or two and a reminder that everything ends The light will give it shape [...]
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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… Where will the trails lead? Rituals performed in haste will not deliver the conclusions we seek Then again, we may never find satisfying answers The dull glow of midnight fires cannot travel far when the moon is content to [...]
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… Somewhere around here I have a small jar [...]
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 [...]
