A senryu. The starting point comes from a poem by Sarah Doughty (‘my soul’s missing piece’) and a Twitter post by Tanya Simone Simpson (‘oral fixation’).
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Future prognostication is not an exact science (a poem)
I forget what I was watching this morning while waking up, but that’s where the first line of this poem comes from…
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Remember, you asked for this (a poem)
Inspired by a phrase from a rejection letter. (Me? Bitter? Naw…)
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Viz. an authoritative definition of chemistry (a poem)
I lifted a couple of lines from one of my own poems for today’s entry. (Yes, an hypothesis is intentional.)
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It’s a little complicated (a poem)
Inspired by Future Man; the first line of part 3 comes from the name of an old-age home.
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Musings on modern poetry and the hidden strength of words (a poem)
Inspired in part by this video, which I am guessing is from the early 1990s, based on the physical appearance of the participants…
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My thoughts are a checkerboard of indecisive moves (a poem)
Taking a longer poem I wrote last month and giving it a severe editing…
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A poem with three stanzas that may or may not be connected, and all mention swimming (someday I’ll come up with a decent title for it) (a poem)
Bonus round! Inspired by lines I heard at a reading tonight, and a line from a song I heard at a concert 25 years ago, combined with coincidences with my own writing.
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Establishing shot (a poem)
Inspired by a line and scene from Titanic.
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Flat Santas (a poem)
Inspired by the sight of not-yet-inflated lawn Santas in Shoreline, and ‘Hanna Hanna’ and ‘The Soul Awakening’ by China Crisis.
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Ordinary Average Thoughts 