This is it - the last poem-a-day poem. I hope everyone has enjoyed this as much as I have.  It's nice to have a once-a-year injection into my poetry rough draft stock, yo.

Since I started with a structured poem, a rondeau, I thought I'd end with a structured poem, a villanelle.

Calling it a day (when it isn't)

There is no sunset out in space ( Read more... )

Here it is - our last twofer tuesday.
The prompt is Realism / Magical

My idea is a combo.

A billion suns exploding expanding colliding
To form a carpet of light points,
The invisible world of neutrinos,
The energy of every color and heat,
The patterns we make images of
Kings and bears and gods
Stories fall far short of
The magnitude
Of Reality.

Are you all enjoying my poem-a-day insanity?  I hope so! I've not been keeping up with it as well as in past years.  I suspect getting these 'catch up' posts isn't as fun as an actual poem a day. Sorry about that ( Read more... )

Holy crap - April is almost over ( Read more... )

Today's prompt is "Tell it to the..." fill that in ( Read more... )

WOo let's get caught up 'n stuff ( Read more... )

Yes, I'm a day behind still on the poems. I /will/ catch up, even if it turns out to be May 1st. So today's poem is from a twofer tuesday prompt, Optimism and Pessimism. I decided to do both in one ( Read more... )

Tackle ( Read more... )

Here are the poems I wrote on hotel stationary over the weekend. They looked longer in longhand ( Read more... )

SHE'S BACK! Booyah!  Fortified by a night slacking off, an early bedtime, and "Free espresso shot Thursdays" at the Coffee House in University Circle, I present FOUR POEMS to catch me up on Poem-A-Day - two for twofer tuesday, one for yesterday, and one for today ( Read more... )