Title courtesy of Vasilina Orlova.
silence
One breath, another breath (a poem)
An ekphrastic poem, inspired by Frank Perry’s album Zodiac.
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On the ladder (a poem)
An ekphrastic poem, inspired by my piece, ‘I’ve gone too far to turn back now’.
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Day of silence (a poem)
A recent poem. Because some days silence is necessary…
The inconsequential daydreams of a cracked shell (a poem)
I don’t know what this is, but I wrote it anyway.
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National Poetry Writing Month, Day #16
Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to answer a questionnaire about a place (real or imagined), then write a poem based on one or more of the answers. I ended up writing about my immediate surroundings—more specifically, in the context of my decision to make this what I call a ‘quiet day’. That means no unnecessary conversation, and no devices whose purpose includes producing sound (e.g., telephone, stereo, TV).
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The smoke and the fire (A poem)
Technically, I wrote my Day 8 entry for National Poetry Writing Month yesterday, so here is a poem I wrote today.
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Turning back to the path I thought I was on before life took me somewhere else (A poem)
Writing epistles is harder than I thought it would be. So far, I feel like I’m ending up with a really bad ‘artist’s rendering’…
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Secrets and unanswered questions (A poem)
A new poem in my February series of epistles. Out of respect for privacy, I am not mentioning the subject of this one.
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The dark horse runs unnoticed at night (A poem)
This bit of mysteriousness emerged from somewhere…
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Ordinary Average Thoughts 