Today’s prompt in The Daily Poet by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano is to write a poem that uses I remember to begin each line. I wrote such a poem a few weeks ago, but decided to give this challenge a try nonetheless. This time, I thought back to Sunday morning breakfasts at my grandparents’ house when I was a kid…
morning
Vignettes (a poem)
A series of vignettes on this early morning…
Morning pages (a poem)
I have been doing The Artist’s Way for the last couple of years (this is my third time around). One of the practices is the morning pages, in which you just write three pages of whatever comes out. As I have become more diligent about pursuing creative activities, I have slacked off on the morning pages—so, this morning, I decided to combine the morning pages with my usual poetry writing. This poem is the result… Continue reading
Morning at 33-1/3 RPM (a poem)
Written while listening to a Jackie Gleason box set I picked up at a thrift store for 99 cents… Continue reading
Something about the old cliché about shadows (a poem)
The February 16th prompt in The Daily Poet, by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano, is to write a poem about your shadow, then describe the shadows around you, etc. I took a more general approach.
Demarcation (a poem)
Letting the moment pass…
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(27 January 2015—posted January 28th)
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #3 (April 3, 2014)
Today’s prompt: write a charm – a simple rhyming poem, in the style of a recipe-slash-nursery rhyme.
These walls
In the morning
I am here
Sounds of life rush in
through open windows
I am reminded
there’s more to life
outside these walls
I cannot see them
They have no shape,
no form,
no mass,
but they exist
I feel their presence
I’ve built these walls
(5 May 2013)
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