NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 30: Who will I wake up to be? (reversed) (a poem)

The napowrimo.net prompt for the last day of National Poetry Writing Month 2015 is to either write a poem in reverse, or take a previously written poem and reverse the order of the lines. I will want to come up with a better title for this one, but I worked with the weird dream poem I wrote a few days ago to create this one… Continue reading

NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 4: Break the code—read the message (a poem)

Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to write a ‘loveless’ love poem—i.e., one that does not use the word love and does not include the usual trappings associated with love poems. As luck would have it, I had a dream last night. I wrote two poems trying to capture what I remembered of the dream; this poem is a composite of the two—appropriate, since the woman in the dream seemed to be a composite of two or three different women. [N.B., I have swapped titles with the other poem I wrote about this dream, after realizing that each title fit the other poem better.]

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