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 [...]
Tag: identity
I couldn’t bear to be special (A poem)
A work in progress, with the title nicked from a Prefab Sprout song. 1 I couldn’t bear to be special I wanted only to be the one you would let be the one Nothing else mattered to me If only you could have seen what you would have seen Tomorrow could be different I could [...]
Detachment (a poem)
Although my background includes Finnish, Irish, and a few other things, as an American, none of that has ever really been part of my identity… I have no connection to the old country no sense of identity I had no rituals passed down to me no remnants of language custom or cuisine There were no [...]
Vignettes (a poem)
A series of vignettes on this early morning… I The city lingers in my mind a ghost in search of a metaphor Even a bad one will do— the identity doesn’t care what it is as long as it exists In the meantime it is protected II I once drew the eight of diamonds but [...]
