I have been listening a lot to Gil Scott-Heron lately…
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NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 26: Lonely madcap (a poem)
Today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt is to take a couple of the words invented by Shakespeare, then write a poem with those words as the title.
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.
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 18: Ground out (a poem)
Today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt turned out to be a tricky one (I accidentally let a stray ‘e’ slip in)—though that may have been mostly to my choice of vowels…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 10: Tangled threads (a poem)
Ugh! This was one of those days when I found it hard to get going. I was going to write an abecedarian poem, but I didn’t want to force anything, or have to resort to the ‘X marks the spot’ cliché.
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 9: Thinking about what I write versus what you see (a poem)
I don’t like any of the writing prompts I have seen today, so I am going with my first poem of the day, which is a brief contemplation about poetry…
Sometimes you say it better than I ever could (a poem)
Partly inspired by a poem called ‘Ghosts that leave footprints’, which I had the chance to read earlier today at a poetry reading after everyone had read their own poems… Continue reading
Two words (a poem)
…and the irritability continues. Fortunately, there’s just one more day left in the current Mercury retrograde cycle.
Feeling the rush (a poem)
I spent today working on the first draft of my next poetry collection. Despite being distracted from the task of writing, I am in a much better mood today…
Uncharted (a poem)
I thought this might be about one thing, but now I’m not so sure it isn’t about something else…
Ordinary Average Thoughts 