Evidence of poem #1

Poem #2: untitled

Evidence poem #3

Evidence of poems #4-7

Evidence of poems #8-11

Poem #12: "Hunted"

Evidence of poems #13-15

Evidence of poems #16-21

Evidence of poems #22-27

Poem #28: "though you can't see it"

Evidence of poems #29-30

So that's 30 new poems! Yay!

Some will remain only on the pages of my notebook, some will be reworked and ( Read more... )

I tend to forget that it's April Fool's Day (if not for the fact that everyone on the interwebs talks about it) and I'm also easily fooled, so chances are someone is going to have a laugh at my expense today. If you're into that sort of thing, jimhines has a round up of some of the better Fool's Day jokes that have already cropped up online ( Read more... )

1. Today is Nation Autism Day, and I am wearing blue in recognition. (Hopefully you are, too?)
2. Once again it is National Poetry Month, the month in which I try to write a poem everyday for thirty days straight, a challenge I always manage to get halfway through and fail. As you may have noted, I'm already a day behind, so at some point today, I ( Read more... )

Napowrimo 9 - Poetic Asides prompt: write a “time of day” poem.
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Morning

The sun’s rising is a stretching of mauve light,
a blush of beginning. Dew makes the verdant leaves
sparkle in the crisp, clear air. Any residue of mist
evaporates in the growing warmth of dawn.
Morning Glories peel open their pale petals
as I open my sticky eyelids. Sleep ( Read more... )

I’ve skipped over prompt 6 (to make the title “Don’t ____, ____”) for now, because I’m really stuck on it. I plan to come back to it later or to fill in the missed day with a different poem.

Instead I’m moving on to day 7 (yep, I surely am behind). Poetic Asides prompt: write a “what if” poem. Here goes.

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Your Jungles

If I went down, down, down
deep ( Read more... )

NaPoWriMo 4 - Poetic Asides prompt: Pick a type of person and write about them.

( The Witch )

2 - Poetic Asides prompt: write a postcard poem.

( Postcards from Mexico )

Taking a lead from leavemeunderwater here, I'm doing some of the Poetic Aside's promts. Day 1 is a "what got you here" poem.

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Trajectory

The trajectory of life is not so simple
as climbing into a car, slipping it into cruise control
and letting the road spool out like a thread before you,
while your thoughts gather and thicken like lint,
( Read more... )