A new poem. This is another class assignment ( Read more... )

Another poem I wrote for class, although I've edited it since ( Read more... )

( My latest few poems )

This is yet another writing exercise. It's a circular poem, which means it should start and end with the same line and that the meaning of the line should somehow change in the interim ( Read more... )

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Ok, here's one for you to laugh at. I know this is rather awful, but in my defense I was trying a form I'm not terribly fond of. Hopefully I'll like the next thing I work on better ( Read more... )

Well, here's the latest in my string of new poems. This was actually a combination of two writing exercises. I wanted to write a sonnet, but I also decided to make it about a garbage truck, an excercise my brother suggested to me some time ago ( Read more... )

Here's the latest product of my efforts to improve my output. This is in response to a prompt in a writing book to write a poem in the voice of someone ten years younger.

Ten


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Here are a few things I've written more recently.

I am the
Sunflower
they have never seen.
I drop no petals.
My seeds,
heavy as marbles,
make my center.
I have no great height.
Other leaves are greener.
Deep my roots,
Strong my stem,
the Sun alone
binds me.
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( For more of my poetry, read on )