Category: PAD 2024
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2 Dec: Poem-a-Day Challenge
It’s been a Happy Day … For breakfastI had toast and marmalade,eggs and tea. Hummed a bar or twoof an old song that ran wildthrough my head. Wrapped a woollen shawlaround my shoulders,catching cold now is a worry I miss writing lettersto parents – they’ve beengone many years now. Winter darkness is here;it’s the last…
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1 Dec: Poem-a-Day Challenge
Frustration … … is a poem that makes no sense. It’s early morning,and I’m in the middle of a dark memory,or it might be a nightmare. A pull in a direction,a light’s refraction in a room of clear airand bright surfaces. Medical measure.Walls pink as a mouth, and I hear crunchingleaves. Old parchment. I am…
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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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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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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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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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22 Nov: Poem-a-Day Challenge
Advice is … my mother telling meto eat an apple a day.so I planted three apple trees. my father telling meto let the wind blow through me.so it does. PAD (Poem-a-Day Challenge) Day21 with Prompt: “Advice”. Some artwork is created using Midjourney AI, and is identified as such in the ALT text or captioned. Images…
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