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27 April 2021: Haibun
Vicariously Vigàta No more news. Not tonight. No more gasps for air. No more funeral pyres, or smoke and fire. No more wives in tears, or men beating chests, and no more orphans ghostly stares. I escape it all, if just a while, watching reruns on the TV. Police drama in Vigàta. A Sicilian seaside…
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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 24 NaPoWriMo 2021
Day 24 – I. Napowrimo: Substitute the object/subject of a Wikipedia article for another object or subject. I chose the Domestic Rabbit and substituted a pencil for the object. II. Poetic Asides AprilPAD: write a question poem. III. The Poeming Found Poetry Challenge “Between Two Birds” I. & II.The Domestication of Pencils (or maybe…
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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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Day 22 NaPoWriMo 2021
Written for NaPoWriMo Day 22: a poem using Metonymy and PA AprilPAD “Nature” and The Poeming Found Poetry Challenge. Micro-image from Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights. Croak Timeless as water.Frogs andtheir ambitions. Incessant. Continual.Primordial.Croakingtheir reckoning across water. Rusty. Exuberant. A sound as determinedas steel-tip boots. March. April. May.Croaked and soaked.A spread of silky water. It fills onesears with frogs and…
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Day 21 NaPoWriMo 2021
Day 21: Napowrimo: a Poem that uses lines with a repetitive set-up, and PA AprilPAD, write a poem entitled (blank) Me, and finally The Poeming’s Found Poetry Challenge on Tumbr. A Note To Me When that mist comes floating downDown as if you just might drownDrowning in its bone-deep chillA chill that holds you frozen stillBe still as a heart atonedBe…
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Day 20 NaPoWriMo 2021
Day 20 Napowrimo: Write a Korean Sijo and PA’s AprilPAD: Write a Love or Anti-love poem The Last Thaw (a Korean Sijo poem) That was the last frost of winter – the garden is singing.Two birds are pulling a worm from the lawn – same worm, yet they pull.I’m warm in your arms – hardly recall how…
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Day 19 NaPoWriMo 2021
NaPoWriMo Day 19: A Rant A Few Bugaboos jigsaw puzzles missing piecesclocks displaying the incorrect timea sliver in my finger that I can’t seeunflushed toiletsphotos that fadea curry stain on my favourite blousecar alarmslitter in the hedgerowsa drippy tapalarm clocks on Sundaysplastic flowers on graves wide-body cars in the carparkunmade bedswatery eyes and a stuffed…
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Day 18 NaPoWriMo 2021
NaPoWriMo Day 18: A prose poem based on another poem’s title from Susan G. Wooldridge’s Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words. I chose the poem The Ginkgo. For AprilPAD write an ekphrastic poem, which is the Found poem from the Bosch micro-image. The Ginkgo There comes a point, as a child, when your view opens to a whole new horizon.…
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