Not a great weekend for writing. This is what I was left with on Sunday… This is the sting that should persist that lingers on past the simplest tricks All I’ve wanted is to close my eyes and dream of having you here with me to hold arm in arm and hand in hand whenever [...]
Tag: moment
The nature of silence (A poem)
I spent yesterday watching Japanese movies checked out from the library. This poem was inspired by クローンは故郷をめざす (The Clone Returns Home)… Silence marks the moment of the separation the border between end and beginning the space where everything changes When the sound comes back it is sudden, deafening the discharge of a hundred atmospheres aflame Into the [...]
Conflicted (a poem)
Some memories come back at the strangest times… No document exists of the moment but in my memory That’s all I should need but sometimes it’s not enough and I want to go back or I want to move on After the gaze is cut off what do you see? Does my expression become blank [...]
I want to sleep through the end of the world (a poem)
Inspired by Seeking a Friend for the End of the World… When the lights go out all I want to see is a flash in my dreams as something big and fantastic happens and the end comes in an explosive way Don’t wake me up when it’s over Remember, the sleep [...]
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 27: The next day, two years later (a poem)
Today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt is to write a ‘looking back’ poem. Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a hay(na)ku. My poem inadvertently combines the two. Morning Wake up Cup of coffee Whisper your name in your ear Remembering You’re gone Two years now (27 April 2015)
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 24: That moment (a poem)
Today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt is to write a ‘moment poem’… When I looked at you I knew that you understood what I was feeling (25 April 2015)
Sometimes you say it better than I ever could (a poem)
Partly inspired by a poem called ‘Ghosts that leave footprints’, which I had the chance to read earlier today at a poetry reading after everyone had read their own poems… I had run out of things to say but time was not yet up Then I remembered the words you wrote that I had saved [...]
A snapshot (a poem)
The September 4th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to ‘[w]rite a series of short poems that each present a snapshot description of a larger subject.’ I didn't get as far as doing a series, but I think I got the snapshot aspect right. [...]
Hope’s Eternal Embrace
We fell into each other's arms. It felt good to hold her, and to be held. But it was much more than that. In that moment, we were united in our mutual longing. It was as though we were clinging to each other for life. We held onto each other so tightly that the only way [...]
