An ekphrastic poem, written in shadorma form, inspired by Peter Juvonen’s The Jester’s Dream.
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The dancer (a poem)
Looks like September will be ekphrastic poem month. This poem was inspired by a painting by Lu De’an.
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Nothing is more broken than this (a poem)
Strayed from the challenge again yesterday, after not having written anything for a few days—or so I thought. After posting, I remembered that this poem includes overheard conversation (the bit about the generals)…
Woods (a poem)
Watching a Japanese drama on Netflix…
The dark horse runs unnoticed at night (A poem)
This bit of mysteriousness emerged from somewhere…
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Mid-afternoon at Third Place (a poem)
Went out for lunch yesterday, after mailing in my grant application materials. This poem describes the scene shortly before I went into the book store to look around for a while.
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Quiet fog (a poem)
Another day of slim pickings—I got to writing too late in the day…
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No fingerprints (a poem)
Written while watching the Season 2 finale of Orange is the New Black…
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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…
Remnants (a poem)
The September 5th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to write a poem ‘that confronts climate change, environmental degradation, habitat destruction and/or forest mismanagement’. It suggests a few words for inclusion: cage, habitat, dead, altered, destabilized, remnant, margins, mutilated. I used the words, but wrote about something else entirely. Continue reading
Ordinary Average Thoughts 