The January 16th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to come up with a list of ten words each about oil and snow, then to alternate a word from the two lists in each line of a poem until all the words have been used. My snow words were granule, icy, angels, crystalline, blanket, powder, pack, flurry, blizzard, and flake; my oil words were fuel, golden, stain, fluid, smooth, slick, viscous, slip, flammable, and commodity.
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The death of the Grand Dame (A poem)
Attempting to form a tribute from a jumble of impressions on a very long day…
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There’s no such thing as snow anymore (A poem)
An attempt to conceptually connect weather and television.
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The meaning of winter (a poem)
The February 17th prompt in The Daily Poet, by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano, is to list memories of winter, then write a poem about them.
Irish coffee fantasy (a poem)
Just a small fantasy I had while drinking a homemade Irish coffee…
Snowdrop (a poem)
A random thought turned into a brief winter poem partly informed by the title sequence to a Japanese drama…
Ordinary Average Thoughts 