My only complaint so far about these verbless poems is that they’re too heavy. Fortunately, there are still 27 days left in the month… Expectations awry off-target projectiles Suspension bridges with heavy traffic and incomplete cables The weight The distraction The sense of defeat Documents beneath dust off-color off-spec No labels No lists No artifice [...]
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National Poetry Writing Month, Day #24
Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a ‘mix-and-match’ poem, mixing ‘fancy’ and ‘non-fancy’ words. Not as big a stretch as some of the previous prompts, but… Who am I today? The identity to which I have awakened disappoints me I’m unaccustomed as of late to seeing myself the way other people view me I don’t like being affixed to [...]
From this side of the wall (A poem)
An odd way to start the day. Oh, well… I’m tamping down my expectations It’s safer that way Not exciting but safer Nobody wants to lose but that’s the way it goes until defeat becomes the expectation It’s hard to look the other way when that’s where the bullets are coming from and wounds never [...]
Uncharted (a poem)
I thought this might be about one thing, but now I’m not so sure it isn’t about something else… Would we drown? If we go swimming within unsure what to expect unprepared for the depth of the waters… What if? Could we put aside all the things we haven’t been saying and allow ourselves to [...]
