A random thought turned into a brief winter poem partly informed by the title sequence to a Japanese drama…
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There’s no such thing as Christmas (a poem)
A slightly bitter meditation on modern Xmas. I actually don’t mind Xmas—under the right conditions…
I want to be more like the color red (a poem)
The December 23rd prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, didn’t interest me—so I went to the December 24th prompt, which provided a few possible first lines for a poem. I chose I want to be more like the color red…
The endless journey (a poem)
The December 21st prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to write a poem beginning with the line 96% of the universe is made up of the dark and unknown. I modified that ever-so-slightly…
A partial list of what I want (a poem)
The December 20th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to write a poem ‘enumerating your wishes and desires’.
Here in the dark (a poem)
Going there on a Monday night…
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Please tell me it’s a dream (a poem)
Random stuff plus a snippet of dream…
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What would you do? (a poem)
This week’s HoneLife poetry exercise is to write a short poem that starts with ‘What would you do if…’ Continue reading
You (a poem)
Another HoneLife poetry exercise, this one on the theme of thankfulness…
Saturday morning (a poem)
Now back to some regular poeting…
The November 29th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to ‘[w]rite a poem that begins with the next thing anyone says to you.’ If nobody else is around, it suggests calling somebody up, or turning on the TV or radio, and using the first thing you hear. Of course, with my luck, the first thing I encountered was a commercial that opened with somebody asking ‘What’s up?’ Meh. I kept watching, in case the program to follow, The Dick Van Dyke Show, offered something better. The episode opened with Mary Tyler Moore asking ‘What’s this?’ Okay, okay…
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