Read Write Poem’s challenge #93, The Big Whopper, didn’t come easy. What would I never do? This. The Vamp Is Singing It’s on a bet that I take to the scarred old stage and sing up my inner vamp. With smoke all around me like a kiss on a frog, I become what I’m not, [...]
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A Cul-de-Sac of Lost Dreams
August 27th, 2009 9 Comments
Read Write Poem #89: It Came from the News. The challenge was to write a poem inspired by a headline. This headline came from the New York Times, August 23, 2009. I loved the prompt, but I don’t like the poem yet. For one thing, I’m having a hard time with its grammar. Where does [...]
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That Stick, That Wind
June 18th, 2009 14 Comments
This animal is temporarily off-exhibit.
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My Mother
May 9th, 2009 3 Comments
Tamra is the Mother, Wife, Daughter, Sister and Grandmother Tamra is the Counselor, Teacher, and Lifeguard Tamra is the Poet, Paper-maker, and Photographer Tamra is the Pilgrim and Adventurer is Tamra.
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NaPoWriMo #29: i don’t think i can
April 29th, 2009 7 Comments
Today’s Read Write Poem prompt, things you don’t think you can do, very nearly didn’t come together for me. Maybe this little engine is running out of steam. No Matter No matter what I think I can I think I can I think I can I cannot be in two places at the same time, [...]
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NaPoWriMo #28: seeing red
April 28th, 2009 4 Comments
Today’s Read Write Poem prompt was to write about red. I was stalled until I read the question of the day on my TED widget: Where will you walk today? That was when red and TED all came together for today’s poem. I know we have a few days left, but I want to thank [...]
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NaPoWriMo #25: how to
April 25th, 2009 5 Comments
Today’s Read Write Poem prompt was to write a how-to poem. I think the poems are disintegrating a bit in this final stretch. How to Survive Cubicle Life (adapted from Paper Folding Wallet Instructions with a nod to Leonard Cohen) Fold inward along line A and line B so that your wayward edges meet at [...]
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NaPoWriMo #22: wednesday is list day
April 22nd, 2009 9 Comments
Today’s Read Write Poem prompt was to select words, phrases, lines from five pieces and work them into a poem. I used these six. Wendell Berry, How to Be a Poet: there are no unsaved spaces ee cummings, 87: what a wonderful thing/is the end of a string George Bilgere, Crusoe: the faintest signal, a [...]
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NaPoWriMo #20: The Bride Wore Red
April 20th, 2009 2 Comments
That’s what the prompt said, and I’m not too thrilled with the outcome. Nonetheless, here is #20. The Bride Wore Red Who am I to say she shouldn’t have worn that dress while her groom skated circles around her on cloven hooves and pigs sang from the tree tops?
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NaPoWriMo #16: word trails
April 16th, 2009 9 Comments
Today’s Read Write Poem prompt is to consider a single word and see where it (or its synonyms or its antonyms) takes you. I’m still thinking about this article from Henri about nature words getting dropped from the Oxford Junior Dictionary, so the two things came together here. In a Cowslip’s Bell I Lie I [...]
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