Ugh! This was one of those days when I found it hard to get going. I was going to write an abecedarian poem, but I didn’t want to force anything, or have to resort to the ‘X marks the spot’ cliché.
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Seattle haiku (a poem)
A poem from yesterday about a sunny spring day in Seattle…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 9: Thinking about what I write versus what you see (a poem)
I don’t like any of the writing prompts I have seen today, so I am going with my first poem of the day, which is a brief contemplation about poetry…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 8: Return of the Man in Black (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to write a palinode, a retraction of something in an earlier poem. I opted for a follow-up to my earlier poem, The man in Reno vs the Man in Black.
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 7: A dream I never want to see again (a poem)
Today’s prompt in The Daily Poet by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano is to write a backwards acrostic—that is, an acrostic in which the last letter of each line spells out a word or phrase. As it turned out, I had a horrible night’s sleep last night (with ugly dreams to match), so picking a word—insomnia—was not difficult…
Paris, 2015 (a poem)
Today’s entry in the Writer’s Digest 2015 April PAD Challenge involves writing a ‘things-not-as-they-appear’ poem…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 6: The window of consciousness that greets me at 4:30 in the morning (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt involves writing an aubade. I’m not familiar enough with this type of poem to know if this one qualifies, but it’s what I came up with. Since it was 5:30-ish 7:15 a.m. and I was only 3/4 awake, I was just happy that I half remembered the first couple of lines that popped in my head long enough to write them down in some form…
Sunday mornings at Grandma’s house (a poem)
Today’s prompt in The Daily Poet by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano is to write a poem that uses I remember to begin each line. I wrote such a poem a few weeks ago, but decided to give this challenge a try nonetheless. This time, I thought back to Sunday morning breakfasts at my grandparents’ house when I was a kid…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 5: Political Science (c. 2015) (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is a bit tricky. It involves taking an Emily Dickinson poem, stripping out all the line breaks, re-breaking the lines, and adding and subtracting words. I chose to use her poem The World is not Conclusion, turning it into a commentary on the current state of American politics…
The woman in my dreams (a poem)
Using the prompt from Day 4 of the Writer’s Digest 2015 April PAD Challenge to continue exploring last night’s dream…
Ordinary Average Thoughts 