This poem was part of my 365 Project back in 2009–2010. I don’t seem to have written it down or saved it anywhere else, so it wasn’t until a week or so ago, when I was looking for stuff to upload to CafePress as possible t-shirt or mug designs that I re-discovered it… Continue reading
dreams
A dreamland encounter with Hope (a poem)
Scenes from last night’s dreams…
Dreaming? (a poem)
The August 20th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to write a poem of seven-syllable lines about a dream. I’ve been going through a stretch where I’ve been having dreams, but don’t remember them very well (if at all) when I awake, so…
Inside (a poem)
I didn’t work from a prompt this time, but I did try to imagine someone other than myself… Continue reading
A strange world (a poem)
No prompts this time. Just a thought that came into my head this morning…
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
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #23 (23 April 2013)
Today’s writing prompt: triolets. Eight lines; iambic tetrameter; lines 1, 4, and 7 the same; lines 2 and 8 the same; ABaAabAB rhyme scheme.
Not sure how closely I hewed to the particulars of the form, but I gave it a shot—several shots, actually. (The second one starts with a line from a poem by Emily Dickinson.) Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #7 (April 7, 2013)
Today’s prompt: write a poem in which each line takes the form of a single, declarative sentence, except for the last one, which should be in the form of a question. Harder than it sounds, but… Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #3 (April 3, 2013)
I ignored the writing prompt for day #3 as well. Not interested so much in sea shanties, I’m afraid. Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #2 (April 2 , 2013)
For day 2, I ignored the writing prompt. Instead, I wrote about the previous night’s dreams… Continue reading
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