Not a pantoum or a poem about politics (yes!), but necessary.
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weariness
Election fatigue (A poem)
This one will date quickly—but I want to get it out of my system…
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The long slide from hope to rage (A poem)
This pantoum was inspired by the title of an article appearing in The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/02/the-guardian-view-on-super-tuesday-the-long-slide-from-hope-to-rage
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National Poetry Writing Month: Day #18 (April 18, 2013)
Today’s prompt: write a poem that begins and ends with the same word. Given the whirlwind-of-change-inspired self-reflection of the last few months, it was almost too easy. Not that the poem itself was necessarily easy, just the challenge… Continue reading