This is an updated version of a list I made just before I turned 50. Somehow I didn’t figure out until revising that list that it actually contained 49 things—one was duplicated (albeit with slightly different wording) just a few lines apart. Anyway, now I’m 60. Here’s the list:
Here is my Day 16 poem using the napowrimo.net prompt: ‘a poem that uses the form of a list to defamiliarize the mundane.’ I don’t think my poem ‘defamiliarizes’ anything, but it is a list.
In response to the blog post Thirteen Reasons Why Challenge, in which proposes posting 13 reasons why you are happy with your life, I am going to give it a shot. I can’t in good conscience label it as 13 reasons why I’m happy, so I will instead call it… Continue reading
My Seventh poem for National Poetry Writing Month uses the prompt from Napowrimo.net—which involves making four short lists, then connecting items from the first two using information from the last two. The list items I chose were the smooth, black stone (touchstone) a friend of mine gave me, under the coffee table (where I sometimes find my remote after misplacing it), the remote control I misplace at least twice a day, and not remembering something about an item I have been given (a business card, in the example on my actual list). Continue reading
Calling this a ‘poem’ might be something of a stretch. Either way, feel free to add your own…
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My verbless poem challenge feels extra challenging today, so this one is a list poem. …
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The following is based on fifteen months of poetry readings and open mics. I fully intend to post a more rant-y version of this later to reflect a couple of recent experiences; for now, I think this simple list will be appropriate: Continue reading
Inspired by Brian Eno’s A Year with Swollen Appendices (with no pretensions of being either as good or as clever)… Continue reading
Inspired by a post I saw on Tumblr that was gone a couple of hours later… Continue reading
Ordinary Average Thoughts 