Category: PA
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Day 3: NaPoWriMo 2021
As If It’s … Renewal. That’s what energises me. Like spring strutting unopposed. Nothing timid about it. All high-wattage swagger. Put on your Ray-Bans. Take to the road, be a low-rider. There’s a whiff of accidental about life. An unintended glance…
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Day 2: NaPoWriMo 2021
I. The Church Bells Are Ringing A sound like angels exhaling. God’s finger, thimbled, sewing prayers into our thoughts. I must be his great agitation, always folding my heart, and squandering my days. My dad once punched a tree. That was after I told him to never hit Mum again. She cried like a siren.…
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Day 1.1 NaPoWriMo
What words need saying to the needle that your foot finds in a haystack. An American Sentence, 17 syllables.Miz Quickly’s Nov 1, image above Writers’ Digest Uny, PA Day 1 Correspondence.
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Day 30 NaPoWriMo 2021
Day 30: I. Napowrimo: a directions poem, II. PA AprilPAD: Goodbye poem, III. The Poeming “They Were“. And that, my friends, is the end of April’s NaPoWriMo and Found Poetry Challenge and Writer’s Digest Poem-a-Day. I hope you’ve enjoyed the month. I.Just Over There It’s just over there, I said, butif you keep your left…
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Day 29 NaPoWriMo 2021
Day 29: I. Napowrimo, a window view, II. PA’s AprilPAD an evening poem, III. The Poeming Are There Birds In Heaven I.Some Windows Don’t Close I’m wearing my mother’s pearls.I can feel her around my throat. She put excuses into our public narrative,an excuse for his behaviour, or maybean excuse for why she stayed and stayed. She had…
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Day 28 NaPoWriMo 2021
Day 28. I. NaPoWriMo “Questions“, II. AprilPAD “Remix“, & III. The Poeming “A Foot Out of Water” I.It All Comes Down to Decaf in the End Are you listening?What did you say?May I talk with you?What do you want to talk about? And why now?Who are…
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Day 27 NaPoWriMo 2021
Day 27: I. & II. NaPoWriMo “a word from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows” – an Ambedo Haibun also for dVerse Poets III. AprilPAD “Believe it/Or Not” written as a Nodus Tollens and The Poeming “The Red Light Berry” I.An Ambedo Haibun A bee at the windowpane. It’s buzzing. Angry. Or frantic. It can see outside, thinks it’s outside.…
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Day 26 NaPoWriMo 2021
Written for NaPoWriMo “Parody Poem” in response to Lewis Carroll’s “The Walrus and the Carpenter”, and Poetic Asides AprilPAD ” (blank) World, and The Poeming Found Poetry Challenge – The Bluebird. Photo by Pablo Hermoso on Unsplash I. The World According to Pinocchio ( a parody on The Walrus and the Carpenter) His laugh is wet as…
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Day 25 NaPoWriMo 2021
Responding to prompts from I. NaPoWriMo Day 25: An Occasion Poem, II. Poetic Asides AprilPAD: A Thought Poem and III. The Poeming Challenge “Cut To The Chase” I.The Sunrise Sunday Market The sun rises andpreserves the sky. Metal tables are set about.Clinking. Clanking. Huddled noisesof barter and banter and trade. Bread in loaves.In boules.In rolls.…
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Day 23 NaPoWriMo 2021
I. NaPoWriMo “Write a poem that responds, in some way, to another“, II. PA AprilPAD “An Appointment“, and III. The Poeming Found Poetry Challenge Day 23 “What Do Birds Eat” I.A Poem Inspired by Mary Oliver’s Song of Autumn I’ve never been one to standin the midday sun, but here I am,noon,and my shadowhas disappeared…
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