Not a great day for writing yesterday…
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remembering
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 27: The next day, two years later (a poem)
Today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt is to write a ‘looking back’ poem. Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a hay(na)ku. My poem inadvertently combines the two.
On your birthday (a poem)
A few weeks ago, I learned that a friend of mine died of cancer last September. Today would have been her 52nd birthday.
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Remembering (a poem)
Today, I remember…
Somewhere faraway (a poem)
Yesterday morning, I arrived early for an appointment. For my in-car listening that morning, I had chosen a mixtape I made in 1987 (the CD player in my car stopped working back in February). One of the songs on the tape, included as an instrumental interlude, was ‘Somewhere Faraway’, from Melon’s 1987 album Deep Cut. (Club-goers may remember Melon from dance track ‘Hardcore Hawaiian’.) Seeing that title on the j-card started me thinking, and I began to write…
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A dreamland encounter with Hope (a poem)
Scenes from last night’s dreams…