My extended in-laws buried two of their own on Saturday. Two different towns, two different groups of friends, family, colleagues,… Read more Tent Poles
NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 28
Catch the Rain Not every day is a day when each atom vibrates and all pores open to possibility: Those… Read more NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 28
NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 18
A day late, today’s poem is from yesterday’s NaPoWriMo prompt. My starting poem is Jane Kenyon’s Song (which begins, “An… Read more NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 18
NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 16
Play Spring wiffle ball: snap of the bat, shy whistle, just missing the catch… jubilant cheers on breath-clouds, sliding home… Read more NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 16
NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 12
Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt was to write a haibun. Surprisingly, given the number of haiku I’ve written over the years, this… Read more NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 12
NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 11
I had to take a few days’ break from NaPoWriMo poetry writing in order to attend to life stuff –… Read more NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 11
NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 6
The NaPoWriMo challenge today is “write a poem that stretches your comfort zone with line breaks.” So I did… At… Read more NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 6
NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 5
Well, today’s NaPoWriMo challenge was a bit too much for me, so I took just the first part of it:… Read more NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 5
NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 4
The NaPoWriMo prompt today was this: write a poem that is about something abstract – perhaps an ideal like “beauty”… Read more NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 4
NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 3
It’s Day 3 of NaPoWriMo, and it’s all about the poetry, people. The prompt today – write a list poem… Read more NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 3
