poetry

November writing challenge

2016/10/30 — Leave a comment

In my ongoing quest to write things that don’t sound like something I would write, this year I began giving myself monthly writing challenges. While driving home from a closing reception this evening, my November challenge—and my first poem—came to me.

For lack of a better name/label, I am referring to this one as the alphabet poem challenge. It has two three requirements:

  1. Starting with the letter A, each poem will bear a title that begins with the corresponding letter in the alphabet. Thus, the first poem will have a title starting with A, the second poem will have a title starting with B, and so on.
  2. The title must come first.
  3. The poem will contain the number of lines corresponding to the letter’s position in the alphabet. So, the A poem will have one line, the B poem two lines, the C poem three lines, and so on.

This could get weird…

(30 October 2016—edited October 31)

Mutable truths, or scenes from a short slumber on a rainy mid-week afternoon (a poem)

2016/10/26 — Leave a comment

Yesterday, I attended an ekphrastic writing workshop. Distracted by the conversations taking place in the gallery during the time set aside for writing, I had trouble writing much of anything during the three and a half hours I was there. Instead, I found myself underlining the words within the words on the page of writing exercises given to every participant. Every line (except the last two) of this poem contains a word from the list of words I got from the first exercise.
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