Tag: Poetic Asides Writers’ Digest
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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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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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