Tenth poem of the day. I went with a found/blackout poem approach, then added my own twist at the end. Continue reading
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National Poetry Writing Month, Day #28
Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a poem that tells a story backwards. I did that, sort of—I wrote my poem, then reversed the order of the lines (making a couple of small adjustments in the process)…
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Sickbed slumber #3 (a poem)
O! The joys of sleeping with a cold, continued…
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Autobiography is hard (a poem)
I spent a good chunk of yesterday working on a short bio to put in a CV I am preparing for a grant application, so I ended up not writing anything else except this. It’s a bit rough, but I won’t have time to edit until later…
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Sometimes the lesson bears repeating (a poem)
Haven’t even made it to today’s prompt yet…
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NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 19: What is a picture really worth? (a poem)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to write a landay. Poetry Magazine describes the landay as ‘an oral and often anonymous scrap of song created by and for mostly illiterate people: the more than twenty million Pashtun women who span the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.’ It is a couplet, with the first line made up of nine syllables, the second, thirteen.
10 September 2009
Another flashback, from the same project: Continue reading
Big, Beautiful Eyes
She had big, beautiful eyes.
Her name was Nikki.
I guess you could say she was my first crush. Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #9 (April 9, 2013)
Today’s prompt: a poem inspired by noir. I’m not so impressed with the result, but I’ll leave that for the reader to judge… Continue reading
Ordinary Average Thoughts 