This started out as a shadorma, but I reworked the first couple of stanzas, which led to what I now have. Take the brushstrokes you have offered paint me a new picture in which everything you feel capsizes my ship Every drop of rain that falls down drowns the earth, grain by grain spilling into [...]
Tag: contradiction
These things are mine (a poem)
Today’s prompt in The Daily Poet, by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano is to write a poem that describes and/or defines who you are. I was a little hesitant, as that feels like the only thing I normally write about, but I gave it a shot anyway… This quiet presence is mine a Sunday afternoon in the shade on [...]