Today’s prompt in The Daily Poet, by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano is to write a poem about how you learned a particular word. The example given in the book is about how one of them (I assume it was Kelli Russell Agodon, but which of them ‘I’ refers to is not clear) learned the word ‘omit’ back in 1970. This made me think of how I learned the word ‘alibi’ from a Partridge Family song in 1971, so that’s what I started writing about. When I finished the poem, however, the two stanzas referring to that specific experience did not fit—so the poem no longer has anything to do with learning words…
changes
Upon seeing rhododendron leaves on my car (a poem)
For the record, I hate rhododendrons… Continue reading
Bonds of innocence (a poem)
Inspired by a Japanese song title…
Ch-ch-ch-changes (a realization)
It may come as little surprise to anyone who has followed this blog over the last several months (or longer) that the life of Kevin has remained in a state of flux. Continue reading
Blood moon of October (a poem)
The October 1st prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, involves writing a poem about the moon that contains lots of ‘O words’. Apparently, there’s going to be an eclipse on the 8th, so… Continue reading
Dreams
It has been a week of strange dreams.
I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised by this. After all, periods of great change seem to be accompanied by much more vivid goings-on in my night-time interior landscape. Continue reading
What Wouldn’t I Change?
Today’s writing prompt: If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Given the maelstrom of change that the long-overdue collapse of my marriage and subsequent divorce has sucked me into during the last fourteen months or so, plus an often-voiced desire over the years to be anybody other than myself, this question is kind of redundant. Continue reading
It’s ORANGE!
The other day, while looking at beds and bed frames, I walked into the Dania furniture store a couple of doors up from the place where I just bought my bed.
Then, I saw it: Continue reading
On Completing National Poetry Writing Month
Today is the last day of this year’s National Poetry Writing Month. I’d actually stumbled upon it quite by accident. I no longer remember how it was that I found out about it, but I know someone who has participated in National Novel Writing Month before, so I may have been initially attracted by the similarity of their obnoxious abbreviations, NaNoWriMo and NaPoWriMo—which I otherwise refuse to use. Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #13 (April 13, 2013)
Today’s prompt is to take a walk, make notes, and incorporate them into a poem.
Well, this wasn’t that kind of a day. So, instead of an actual walk, I took a mental walk through the day, and noted a few impressions… Continue reading
Ordinary Average Thoughts 