Every prompt today seems to be an Earth Day prompt: napowrimo.net, Writer’s Digest, The Daily Poet… The first thing I always think of is George Carlin’s ‘The planet is fine’ routine, so that had some influence on my Earth Day poem… The earth doesn’t care about us— not the way we think it does Agent Smith [...]
Tag: illness
Sickbed slumber (a poem)
I wrote a couple of poems on this subject over the weekend. This was the better of the two… Laughter echoes hollow from the box Eyes close in slumber between the spaces Consciousness fades in and out creating new stories from the fragments The warmth is soothing here beneath the blankets This cocoon is a [...]
Time to play catch-up…
I have some catching up to do. It was a long weekend… Last Thursday, I went to the doctor to have an ingrown toenail removed. The procedure went well, and took very little time, so I was soon back home and resting on the sofa, watching episodes of Scrubs on Netflix. By the middle of the [...]
