Not an ekphrastic poem, but a response to the news—with yet another video… We say this knowing full well that it may not be safe out there— not these days We say this knowing full well that you can do everything right— but still not come home We say this knowing full well that the [...]
Tag: fears
27 Reasons I Still Have Anxiety (a poem)
This was a tough one. The July 19th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to "write your own list poem using 'because' as your refrain word." (Their main reference was Juan Felipe Herrera's '187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross The Border' poem.) The tough part [...]
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #13 (April 13, 2014)
Today's prompt comes from the Poetry Prompts page at PoeWar.com: Write a poem using Skeltonic Verse. I've shed no tears for so many years all my worst fears have no place to go So they grow and they grow and the next thing I know they knock me about as they fight to get out fuelling my [...]
Ordinary Average Thoughts 