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Open the door (a poem)

2017/01/01 — Leave a comment

My first poem of 2017…

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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged January 2017, meaning, poem, poetry, surface. Bookmark the permalink.

The last night of the year (a poem)

2016/12/31 — 1 Comment

My last poem of 2016…

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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged candle, corner, couple, December 2016, moments, poem, poetry, room, table. Bookmark the permalink.

The things that make me remember (a poem)

2016/12/31 — Leave a comment

A jumble of memories and present moments in this one…

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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged December 2016, memories, moments, poem, poetry, sometimes fiction influences real life. Bookmark the permalink.

Ill-fitting disguise (a poem)

2016/12/30 — Leave a comment

I just started watching this Japanese series, Fujiko, on Hulu. A couple of moments got me going on this…

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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged danger, December 2016, distress, poem, poetry, thoughts, trouble. Bookmark the permalink.

Pen vs Shadow (a poem)

2016/12/30 — Leave a comment

A brief poem from last night.

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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged curve, December 2016, motion, poem, poetry, point. Bookmark the permalink.

The optics of dimension (a poem)

2016/12/29 — Leave a comment

Inspired by an offhand remark by George Michael in a television interview.

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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged artefact, December 2016, dimension, memory, photographs, poem, poetry. Bookmark the permalink.

A small experiment

2016/12/28 — Leave a comment

Yesterday, I tried something a little different. I started out writing a prose poem, but wasn’t satisfied with it—so I took what I had written and adapted it to more of a free-verse form. First, the prose poem:

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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged December 2016, experiment, free verse, poem, poetry, prose poem. Bookmark the permalink.

168.7 (a poem)

2016/12/27 — 1 Comment

By chance, I happened upon a prompt that directed me to turn to page 168 of a book, then use all of the words appearing in the seventh line of text on the page. The book I happened to grab was Fight Club…

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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged December 2016, line 7, page 168, poem, poetry, words. Bookmark the permalink.

There is no syntax to silence (a poem)

2016/12/25 — Leave a comment

Title courtesy of Vasilina Orlova.

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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged December 2016, poem, poetry, silence. Bookmark the permalink.

The emptiest Xmas ever (a poem)

2016/12/24 — Leave a comment

Trying to figure out my total lack of interest in Xmas this year…

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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged December 2016, poem, poetry, Xmas. Bookmark the permalink.

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