Category Archives: Poem-a-Day
Tin Pan Kyrielle
This is kind of clunky, especially as metrical rhyme, but needs to sit a bit before I try to fix it. The tone has got to be evened out, too. But it’s better than my last stab at this exercise,
Tin Pan Kyrielle
This is kind of clunky, especially as metrical rhyme, but needs to sit a bit before I try to fix it. The tone has got to be evened out, too. But it’s better than my last stab at this exercise,
I Remember waking up, wanting to write
It’s official. I am burnt out. Thank God, tomorrow comes May Day. Traditional celebration of spring, fertility, and possibility. International holiday of the Working Man. None of which pertains to me, but what the hell. Got a poem accepted yesterday:
I Remember waking up, wanting to write
It’s official. I am burnt out. Thank God, tomorrow comes May Day. Traditional celebration of spring, fertility, and possibility. International holiday of the Working Man. None of which pertains to me, but what the hell. Got a poem accepted yesterday:
Process, and a Poem, and April’s Almost Over
Don’t know if you’re interested in how poems come about, but I just finished one that I think has legs, and am feeling pretty good. If you’re up for a side trip, I’ll tell you how it developed.
Process, and a Poem, and April’s Almost Over
Don’t know if you’re interested in how poems come about, but I just finished one that I think has legs, and am feeling pretty good. If you’re up for a side trip, I’ll tell you how it developed.
for NaPoWriMo: Slap hands
Prompt from NaPoWriMo: Today, I challenge you to write a nursery rhyme or clapping rhyme. Most nursery and clapping rhymes have strong rhythms, use rhyme and repetition extensively, and aren’t overly concerned with making sense. If you’re having trouble getting
for NaPoWriMo: Slap hands
Prompt from NaPoWriMo: Today, I challenge you to write a nursery rhyme or clapping rhyme. Most nursery and clapping rhymes have strong rhythms, use rhyme and repetition extensively, and aren’t overly concerned with making sense. If you’re having trouble getting
for Poetic Asides: an animal poem
Atoms, I was taught, are full of nothing through which bits whizzzzzzzz on electric paths. The nothing: its space is where wildness prowls. Solid ground is sand and clay and loam, cubes and plates and crumbles, shapes that even packed
for Poetic Asides: an animal poem
Atoms, I was taught, are full of nothing through which bits whizzzzzzzz on electric paths. The nothing: its space is where wildness prowls. Solid ground is sand and clay and loam, cubes and plates and crumbles, shapes that even packed
for Poetic Asides: sport
Sports My cousin, the guy, the guy who did not lose, was an earthquake set loose on boardwalk was ants at a checkerboard picnic shuffled crazy eights into the ninth dimension. I, on the other hand was a good sport.
for Poetic Asides: sport
Sports My cousin, the guy, the guy who did not lose, was an earthquake set loose on boardwalk was ants at a checkerboard picnic shuffled crazy eights into the ninth dimension. I, on the other hand was a good sport.
for WWP: define humankind
I define humankind, and don’t, both badly A fuzzy warm word, humankind. Like wellness coined to include/exclude/sound whole. What is chemicals, baked in a brand-name shape requires a what-is-not for definition as outside needs a side, and in. Defining humankind
for WWP: define humankind
I define humankind, and don’t, both badly A fuzzy warm word, humankind. Like wellness coined to include/exclude/sound whole. What is chemicals, baked in a brand-name shape requires a what-is-not for definition as outside needs a side, and in. Defining humankind
Catching up
It’s All One in the Long Run On Sunday I was supposed to be writing a poem about a plant. It was April. And I was supposed to be writing, so I went to the gallery. There the rectangles were
Catching up
It’s All One in the Long Run On Sunday I was supposed to be writing a poem about a plant. It was April. And I was supposed to be writing, so I went to the gallery. There the rectangles were







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