Category: PAD 2024
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21 Nov: Poem-a-Day Challenge
A Metaphor for … Grief.It’s cliffs crumbling down.Grief,holding its breath andhiding beneath open sky. It’s deepcalling to deep, and shelays down infinitiy’s griefupon winter’s flame,and it leaps to burn. Written for PAD (poem-a-day challenge) Day 20: a metaphor poem. Some artwork is created using Midjourney AI, and is identified as such in the ALT text or…
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20 Nov: Poem-a-Day Challenge
Be Prepared … There’s a hurricane in that house.Two sisters hunkered down,they know the slippery slope,the long tail of these storms. Words gone, wounds reappearing. Their mother thinks she canwalk on water, like Jesus –she goes to church on Sundays,sometimes Tuesdays, too, and while one sister watches sunrises,the other says she’ll conjureloaves of bread. Like…
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19 Nov: Poem-a-Day Challenge
Chance … is drawing a bow across strings and hitting the right note or finding someone that makes you remember that you are flesh and fire Written for PAD (Poem-a-DayChallenge) Day 18 “Chance”. Some artwork is created using Midjourney AI, and is identified as such in the ALT text or captioned. Images are copyright and not…
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18 Nov: Poem-a-Day Challenge
Craving is … … a fragile ring of ice forming at the edge of the birdbath, and still all you can think of is ice cream, and … your bed, when your eyes won’t stay open, even thoughpolice cars and sirens bluster from the TV, and … when you want to stop eating red meat,…
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17 Nov: Poem-a-Day Challenge
A Poem for Still Life … Moon. Trees. River. Fallen leaves.One plain brown bird whose heartRings like trinkets. Winged chorister. Each star. A far beacon breaksA new day for an old world. EveryDawn writes new poems for thee. I would not teach a nightingale to Sing sweetly, nor snout this nightFor truffles under a halo…
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16 Nov: Poem-a-Day Challenge
Nameless … He knew the measure of itwhen he ran along the fence,knew the measureof cold heavens shining. Four bones, thinner than night –on limbs to carry him tirelessly.And his fur was the colourof salt-edged sand or windscattered across frost. And I hummed him a tune of5 twilight notes, an ancientsummoning lest we forget,a tune…
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15 Nov: Poem-a-Day Challenge
A House Built By Wind … There’s a house built in the corner of the sky,Where stars rain down like snow and leaf.A short broad candle’s a welcoming lightAnd set on the sill’s a white heart-shaped stone.It’s a house in the midst of northern wind,Standing upright-firm on old oak tree roots, It grows deep as…
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14 Nov: Poem-a-Day Challenge
Luck … Luck … is the personwho tosses a stonein the welland makes a wishwhen they hear a splash Unlucky … is the personwho fills their wellwith stones Written for PAD Day 13 Poem-a-Day Challenge “Luck/Unlucky”. Some artwork is created using Midjourney AI, and is identified as such in the ALT text or captioned. Images are copyright…
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13 Nov: Poem-a-Day Challenge
Feeling Poorly … should draw loved-ones together,like what a bowl of Doritos does sitting there on the table. He’s back in hospital, our Mike, his failing immune systemthat makes him susceptibleto sneezes in the next county,but the doc says, No worries. He’s okay. Written for PAD (Poem-a-Day) Challenge, Day 12 Two-for-Tuesday (feeling better and/or feeling worse) and dVerse Poets…
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12 Nov: Poem-a-Day Challenge
Lost and … set back off the old roadthere’s a house that waitsquiet and dreaming,hushed and peacefulin winter’s early twilight. I am sure ghosts of timeroam in the empty rooms,that they walk softlyon the stairs, and I expectto see a face watching me, a woman perhaps, her eyeslost to dreams but I only seemy own…
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