Month: Nov 2024
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30 Nov: Poem-a-Day Challenge
Celebration … this poemwill only mention celebrationin passing, the way smokefrom a bonfire is no hurryto be gone, or howstanding next to a sexy womanmakes you feel invisible,or like undergradswho ride bicycles when I use my senior’s bus pass, or more specifically,being loved by someone wholooks beyondyour being as oldas a stone. and that’s all…
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30 Nov: Ten Things of Thankful
In no particular order … 1. Thankful that the publisher’s proof doesn’t require amendments because as the world turns, so does my desire not to stay fixated on one thing. 2. I am thankful that our Christmas shopping for each other is finished. Now to shop for the younger grandchildren who already have more toys…
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29 Nov: Poem-a-Day Challenge
A 1950s View from the Floor When I Was 4 … My mother had a funny wayof blending into the avocado green painted walls of the kitchen. The only time she was truly noticeablewas when she stood in the corner,which was yellow, or when she was pricking dead stuff offher Christmas cactus,which by the way…
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28 Nov: Poem-a-Day Challenge
The Fire of … War.Of white stone gardens,Of rubble smooth as shoulders,And wreckage darkened boulders. Of dust with no human footprint,As if some mythical beastRaked the sky of dawn and Descended on jagged edgesOf glass. Steel. And bits of clothHanging like flags of ignored Surrender. And we clench fireIn our hands, fearing to let goAs…
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27 Nov: dVerse Quadrille
Upstream Couplet A shimmering silverhas held me on the footbridge. Chalk-clear streamweaves the smooth stones, while sunlight filtersthrough summery leaf. It’s liquid silver.Its speckled flanks. A trout swims against the flow,its tail flicks against the stream’s pushwith graceful weight. Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille 213 “with” (44-words sans title). Some artwork is created using Midjourney AI, and is…
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26 Nov: Poem-a-Day Challenge
Nature is … prone in defiance.The old oaks along the road,swaying like an enchanter’s charm.Rain and wind,a whipped branch in twistsas it rips and falls. Come gnarled lightningthat scars the sky.Be you tempest.Be you triumph.Be you percussion’s chaosdrumming from above. Written for PAD Day 25 (poem-a-day challenge) “Nature”. Some artwork is created using Midjourney AI, and…
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26 Nov: A Six – The Devil’s Dyke
Beyond an Intersection Named After an English King and a SaintSix Sentence Story: Day 1 Road Trip: The Devil’s Dyke “… the proof is in Devil’s Dyke,” I say. Nick, Hünga and I are in an open meadow, looking down at a deep V-shaped groove in a hill, “The story goes that the Devil said…
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25 Nov: Poem-a-Day Challenge
If You Were … from deep moss,cushioning twisted roots of wood,or white spring’s burning bloom, or if you wereshadow dimness under oak boughs,thickly thatched in forest homeor night’s roof, if you were …a new memory would daily rush the air. Written for PAD Day 24 (Poem-a-Day Challenge) “If You ( If You ) Some artwork is…
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24 Nov: Poem-a-Day Challenge
I Want … a poem that feeds itself,and knows how to feed me,that sings a forest’s song,or is the green fray of spring, a poem that …follows a seed’s path through air,that’s a warm, dark placewhere I can hear my thoughts,that knows why I care, a poem that …repeats a memory like a melody,that breaks…
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23 Nov: Poem-a-Day Challenge
A Haibun Poem that was Supposed to be about a Pneumatic Drill … There’s a village whose name I can never pronounce correctly, so obviously I can’t spell it correctly either, where I stayed for a week and a few days in the Colombian Andes, and I’d wake up early in the morning, long before…
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