Actually, I was awake at 12:30 a.m. on New Year’s Day, but poetic license…
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Sleep (A poem)
More or less self-explanatory…
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Silent blue screen (A poem)
Inspiration has been in short supply the last couple of days. This is Saturday’s sole poem, partly the result of following the November 7th prompt in The Daily Poet, by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano, which involved taking lines or images from a previously written poem I did not like, and using them to write a new poem.
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On a chilly September morning (a poem)
Wrote this one this morning…
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I want to sleep through the end of the world (a poem)
Inspired by Seeking a Friend for the End of the World…
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The latest chapter in the story of how I know I’m getting old (a poem)
NaPoWriMo 2015 is over, but I am still writing. My first poem for May… Continue reading
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 21: Erasure poem (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to create an erasure poem, in which you take existing text and erase words to make a poem from what you leave untouched. I used page 35 of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 1: The cat’s gone crazy (a poem)
Today has been one of those days where it has been harder to get things on paper. None of the prompts I have looked at for this first day of NaPoWriMo have done much for me, so I wrote about one of my cats acting strangely…
Sickbed slumber (a poem)
I wrote a couple of poems on this subject over the weekend. This was the better of the two…
Time to play catch-up…
I have some catching up to do. It was a long weekend… Continue reading
Ordinary Average Thoughts 