Author Archives: Christine Irving

3Prompts – 3Poems

Posted on May 2, 2017

A poem about taste: Artichoke Picked as buds before they open – tight-packed petals folding back in purple-feathered blooms – till then they’re all about defense, even the inner, most translucent leaves, more tender than the naked skin of new-born … Continue reading →

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Day 26 – NaPoWriMo

Posted on April 27, 2017

Today’s prompt challenges us to write about a current artifact through the eyes of some   future archaeologist, exploring a particular object or place from the point of view of that far-off, future scientist.               … Continue reading →

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NaPoWriMo: The Tiny Place – Day 25

Posted on April 25, 2017

Yesterday I spent inside a snail shell – today the frame continues small around me.  I’m thinking of Alice and the tiny door that took her into Wonderland.  I met a man at Round Top this weekend.  He sat beside … Continue reading →

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NaPoWriMo 24: Under the Wire

Posted on April 25, 2017

I made it! Back running with the pack – how appropriate for this exercise through the Boschian landscape of noses thumbed at all the powers that be- a true democracy of pratfalls and scatology  plunked down among what’s most divine.  … Continue reading →

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NaPoWriMo Prompt 23 – elevenie

Posted on April 24, 2017

Elf is the German word for eleven. Adding –chen to a noun in German gives it a sense of being wee or dear. The word Elfchen (always capitalized, as are all German nouns) translated into English is roughly elevenie. ~ … Continue reading →

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Georgic: NaPoWriMo – Day 22

Posted on April 24, 2017

I spent the weekend at Round Top Poetry Festival immersed in poetry in person without spending a second on-line. My introduction to Round Top was a conversation overheard in a restaurant.  I interrupted my neighbor’s lunch and demanded more info.  … Continue reading →

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NaPoWriMo Day 21

Posted on April 21, 2017

Ever Cover Scanned For Slander   Two candy bars consumed in line sciatica creeps down my spine, I roll an eye, sigh,  tap my toe – too slow, too slow,  must they go on and on at quite such length … Continue reading →

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NaPoWriMo Day 20

Posted on April 20, 2017

Today’s prompt is to write a poem incorporating specific terms from a sport of our choosing.  I fenced in college. It was the only sport I actually loved, barring yoga which doesn’t really qualify. Engagement   En garde, my dear, … Continue reading →

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NaPo Wri MO – 4/19 With a Short Meander Backwards

Posted on April 20, 2017

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making. ee cummings Yesterday I got distracted and didn’t write a preamble to my odd poem.  I chose ee … Continue reading →

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Neologisims at NaPoWriMo

Posted on April 18, 2017

in april   wh(en) fools splash inkddles on every page and bark like paint flung farby pollock’s brush (if he but flung in onlygreen) I wish ee could go roundabout today to see us celebrate a month of fiddle-dee with … Continue reading →

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