Something more, well, hopeful after yesterday’s mopefest…
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Pleasantville (a poem)
Continuing my verbless journey through May…
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Trixie comes down from Refrigerator Mountain (A poem)
A bonus poem about one of my cats, Trixie, since I did not come up with a poem for Day 12 of National Poetry Writing Month…
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The smoke and the fire (A poem)
Technically, I wrote my Day 8 entry for National Poetry Writing Month yesterday, so here is a poem I wrote today.
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Whistles and buzzes (A poem)
A noisy breather sat next to me at last night’s open mic…
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The new day (a poem)
Sometimes I wonder why new days start in the middle of the night…
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An untitled poem about the intangible quality of love (A poem)
I feel I captured a strong feeling with this poem—at least, a strong feeling that I had as I wrote it. In that sense, writing this particular poem was an act of hope…
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Stars and ladybugs (a poem)
Written about a photograph of a woman participating in (I think) the Fremont Summer Solstice parade…
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Cortege (a poem)
Today’s prompt in The Daily Poet, by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano is to write in a different way than usual, whether that be in a different form or style, using different imagery or words, etc. The poem I wrote just before this one probably achieves that goal more successfully—but I like this one better. It was inspired by a couple of Jon Hassell pieces (Last Night the Moon Came and Amsterdam Blue (Cortege)) I was listening to on Pandora…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 30: Who will I wake up to be? (reversed) (a poem)
The napowrimo.net prompt for the last day of National Poetry Writing Month 2015 is to either write a poem in reverse, or take a previously written poem and reverse the order of the lines. I will want to come up with a better title for this one, but I worked with the weird dream poem I wrote a few days ago to create this one… Continue reading
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