Fo’ NaPoWriMo Jilly has asked us to gather 50 words to share with others for upcoming Madwomen* Prompts. Since I will be out of town for a bit, and since one of my favorite numbers is 51 (3 x 17) I am upping the ante a tad. And offering them here.
You may have these words [...]
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51 or so of my favorite words (du jour) for NaPoWriMo
a visual prompt for Read Write Poem
Last Friday (was it only last Friday — no it must have been the 16th) en route to to my folks in Pinetop, Arizona I had a loooooong layover in Phoenix. I initially thought I’d work on my laptop, doing real work. But the sun was shining and it was looking like a high-70s-degree day [...]
Confronting Tears
The Read Write Poem prompt this week is to draw inspiration from a published poem; take a line, turn it into your own and grow a new poem from the filched line. As I consider music to be my favorite kind of poetry (and sometimes the most moving), I’ve decided to draw my inspiration [...]
Fill in the blanks
Here is my try at a fill-in-the blanks poem, with the original skeleton provided by a Tiel, from Knocking From the Inside. Her original poem, In the Province of Saints, is quite lovely, and I’m not able to do her skeleton justice here…but it was a fun prompt and a good way to get back into [...]
The fleshed out and improbable skeleton
So this is the fleshy poem I quickly put together so as to strip it for Dana’s RWP prompt this week- think crows on roadkill. No? Okay. Think deciduous tree at the end of autumn instead.
Think about someone taking all the blanks I left at RWP and what someone might fill them with in to [...]
In the moment: haiku
I complained too long
Now summer washes away
Umbrella dust free
* * *
Her brown eyes crinkle
A stranger known by bus route
Smiles like she knows me
* * *
A man on the bus
A glass cake plate in right hand
No crumbs, no story
* * *
Broken umbrella
I’m a crow with crippled feet
Or missing feathers
* * *
Bushtits chittering
Chickadees point me to home
Summer [...]
