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Monthly Archives: April 2016
NaPoWriMo: A Kenning
Blue Bonnet Spring harbinger Paintbrush partner Concrete’s victim Nature’s dictum Texas treasure Ladybird’s pleasure Sky reflector Folk connector Bee beacon Nature’s deacon Cows distaste Goats haste A Kenning is a two word phrase describing an object often using a … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Prompt, NaPoWriMo, Nature, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged bluebonnets, Kenning, Ladybird, NaPoWriMo, National Poetry Month, poetry, riddles, Texas
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NaPoWriMo: The Fan Letter
One of the lost poems came wandering back via my husband’s computer – much rejoicing over this lost sheep, its matted fur and ticks matter not a whit. The story of Leda and the Swan has always fascinated me – … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Daily Prompt, NaPoWriMo, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged Leda and the Swan, myth, NaPoWriMo, National Poetry Month, poetry, sexuality, taboos
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NaPoWriMo: Almanac
Poetry Prevails Someone scrawls “Mozart Rules!” across the toilet stall wall but the frog choir outside, inhabiting Rumi’s field, give lie to the words before her ink is dry, though who’s to say molecules of Mozart have not imbued … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Prompt, NaPoWriMo, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged NaPoWriMo, National Poetry Month, poetry
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NaPoWriMo: Inspiration
Not To Mention The Lost Works of Shakespeare and Ovid I lost three separate poems today. Each disappeared from different rooms in ordinary circumstances, leaving behind but the haziest trace of precious detail, beloved turn of phrase, and oh … Continue reading
NaPoWriMo:SanSan
Flying Beneath Her Radar Flying beneath her radar, star-struck fellow stalks the Queen of Prom from class to class through thronging halls, butt-littered parking lots his star runs marathons, debates, plays cello, flirts, mingles, taunts and puffs illicit grass … Continue reading
Posted in NaPoWriMo, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged NaPoWriMo, National Poetry Month, poetry, san san
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NaPoWriMo: Fortune Cooky Prompts
Elegant surroundings will soon be yours. My daughter and I share a fondness for inexpensive oriental restaurants. The food is good and even the meanest hole-in-the-wall offers a spray of delicate life-like orchids, 3-d photos of Norwegian wolves, or … Continue reading
Posted in NaPoWriMo, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged Chinese food, fortune cookies, mothers & daughters, NaPoWriMo, National Poetry Month, poetry
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NaPoWriMo: Found Poem From an Index
Alchemy, In A Cave, With Lover Abyss and darkness Alchemy albedo whitening and colors of feathers as stages of Birth from hand, from head from mouth of gods from phallus, Aphrodite bitterness and salt, BLESSING gravestones shaped as witch … Continue reading
Posted in Found Poems, NaPoWriMo, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged alchemy, archetypal images, Found Poems, index poems, NaPoWriMo, National Poetry Month, poetry, symbols
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NaPoWriMo:11th Prompt – Twisted
I’m finally caught up, but no rest for the wicked; only two more hours till the next prompt! Still I’m stoked to be on board with all the cool cats again. (Poets will never get over the beats-they’ll always dress … Continue reading
Posted in NaPoWriMo, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged NaPoWriMo, National Poetry Month, poetry, Shakila Azizzada
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NaPoWriMo: Book Spine Poem
The Red-Haired Girl From the Bog Her curly mane, color of sailors’ delight, captures attention from every street philosopher and holy fool mooching the squalid sidewalks of the city of the beasts … Continue reading
Posted in NaPoWriMo, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged balance, Book Spine Poetry, feminism, Mallika Sengupta, NaPoWriMo, National Poetry Month, red hair
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NaPoWriMo: Flowers & Fears
Still playing catch-up, writing about flowers and fears, childhood and its end … loving the way our minds work so differently, our pens produce such variety. Fears aside, I love most that life depends upon diversity. pansy noble … Continue reading
Posted in NaPoWriMo, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged Armageddon, hopelessness, NaPoWriMo, pansy, poetry, pregnancy
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