For the last few years, I have been taking screenshots whenever I get spam with interesting headers. This week, I finally printed all of them out. The following poem is composed entirely of spam headers…
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Fragment (a poem)
Not a productive poetry day. Although I did attend a reading, and read during one of the open-mic segments, the fragment below is all I managed to write…
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A mid-May morning (a poem)
I had not particularly intended to follow today’s prompt in The Daily Poet, by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano, which is to listen to jazz or classical music, make notes of what comes to mind while you listen, then write a poem about something you thought of while listening. As it turned out, I started this poem while listening to one of Thelonious Monk’s solo recordings on Pandora…
The ongoing back-and-forth of what to do with my life (a poem)
The week of reflection continues…
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1204 Indian St. (a poem)
No prompt, just things from yesterday, when I drove by my grandparents’ old house…
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iPhone poem (a poem)
Yesterday’s prompt in The Daily Poet, by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano involved using the computer to write, instead of my usual pen and paper. I took it another step further, using my iPhone, and letting the autofill feature guide the sentences. The only drawback turned out to be that the choices were rather limited. Consequently, I went back through what I had written, placing the cursor at different points to check for alternate word choices. I’m not thrilled with the result, but them’s the rules…
The Adventures of the Contessa and Green Eyed Larry (a poem)
Yesterday’s prompt in The Daily Poet, by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano marked the start of my second time around through the book. The prompt called for looking up the names of racehorses, then using ten to fifteen of them in a poem that is not about racehorses. (For comparison, last year’s poem written from this prompt can be found here.)
The names I used this time around:
The Contessa
Waffle Stomper
Yorba Linda Trip
Heaven Forbid
Headwind
Aesthetic Ruin
Original Bloom
Questionable Behavior
Klaus Kinski
Nefarious Splendor
Green Eyed Larry
Brand New Larry
Before Coffee
Diamond Sky
Caffeine Serene
Existential Nudge
The Lunchroom
Defacto Princess
A Baby Maybe
Lollipop Flower
(I don’t have a title for this one yet) (a poem)
One of the advantages of going early at an open mic is that there is plenty of time to be inspired by everything that is going on… Continue reading
#WordsThatDontGetUsedEnough (a poem)
Inspired by a Twitter hashtag this morning… Continue reading
Yeah, I don’t think that’s right (a poem)
Today’s poem (a terzanelle) comes from a prompt in The Daily Poet, by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano: list rules that people have taught you about poetry, then break four of them. I don’t worry about other people’s rules so much when I write poems. When I have had my poems critiqued, though, a few things have come up. This particular poem focuses on the use of the word ‘but’, which some folks think is a word to be avoided. (The ‘rules’ I broke are included in the tags for this post.)
Ordinary Average Thoughts 