Today’s prompt in The Daily Poet, by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano is to write a poem about opposites—specifically, to make two lists of characteristics, with one list being the opposite of the other, then writing a poem in two voices, going back and forth between the lists. I took a different approach to the theme…
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Whatever (a poem)
Yesterday was one of those days where I couldn’t get anything to work…
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夢の歌 [Yume no uta] (Dream song) (a poem)
I heard a great song in my dreams last night. Too bad I can’t remember it now…
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Grounds (a poem)
Ah, coffee! Tasty and inspiring…
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Migraine (a poem)
I noticed a headache developing yesterday while writing my Lament for the Dead poem. Around 5:30 p.m., I finally realized that it was probably a migraine…
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My Lanent for the Dead poem has been posted
The poem I wrote for Lament for the Dead is now online. Here is the link: http://www.lamentforthedead.org/poems/2015/6/20/santos-laboy-45-boston-ma.
(21 June 2015)
Morning rain (a poem)
It rained last night and this morning…
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I have questions (a poem)
Some of the questions that came to mind yesterday…
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An observation (a poem)
I wrote this poem last month after watching Selma, but it is something I have been thinking for quite some time—especially when I stop to consider that many of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s that most of us view as mere history took place within my lifetime…
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In that last moment before letting go (a poem)
One of the several poems I found coming to me just as I was getting ready to go to sleep for the night. (The title is provisional, since nothing better immediately came to mind…)
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Ordinary Average Thoughts 