Bonus round! For some reason, the phrase ‘I’ve got a hat’ popped into my head. I decided to challenge myself to make that the subject of a poem, resulting in this…
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Open the door (a poem)
My first poem of 2017…
The abandoned book (a poem)
Managed to pull this one out at almost the last minute…
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Use your words (a poem)
Can’t live with them, can’t live without them…
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National Poetry Writing Month, Day #8
Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a poem about a flower. Since this is about as exciting to me as the seeds thing, since the day-eight prompt was up well before midnight in my time zone, and since all of the poems I wrote for day 7 used the tritina form (and I was therefore in the zone), I went with that…
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The words (A poem)
A small break from the pantoum, because I think this one says it better…
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Upon recognizing a previously unremarked-upon plot hole in The Matrix (A poem)
In The Matrix, there is a scene where Cypher is having dinner with Agent Smith as the two discuss the terms for putting Cypher back into the Matrix. As I was watching it earlier today, I found myself wondering: How did he get in and out of the Matrix to sabotage Morpheus and his crew by himself? Everyone else needs an operator…
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Lost poems and closely held secrets (A poem)
Off to a decent start this morning, thanks in part to the extra hour…
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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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A small epiphany on a Wednesday afternoon under the trees (a poem)
Sometimes an ordinary action gets me thinking all philosophical-like. What’s up with that?
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Ordinary Average Thoughts 