With your long white wings
come in from the sea
make me a believer that all is possible
when I see your hooked beak
I will sing with joy
and if you walk on the beach with wobbly feet
I will marry again my best friend
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NaPoWriMo April 29 prompt
My dog by the window
wishes he could be Taylor Swift
so he turns on a lamp
pulls up a chair
sets the typewriter typing
now he is writing a love song
about a dog by the window
writing a love song
full of revenge for the dog
who left him
sets his mind to write a book
tell the whole story
of this cruel empathy
sound of the typewriter
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NaPoWriMo April 27 prompt to write an American sonnet
Simmers on the stove
whoops
forgot the spoon
suffering severe hunger
slurping it up
scrumptious
soup
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NaPoWriMo April 26 prompt on alliteration
Answering
To be prepared
To write a poem
A newborn baby
Or an atom bomb
Fat on love
And chocolate cake
To be home
To write
To finish
Something
A poem
A Roethke wild wave
A quiet reptilian calm
To be the Quasimodo
Of gardens
Wow
Jesus
That pearl smile
Of truth
I wrote a poem
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NaPoWriMo April 25 prompt to answer questions supplied and write a poem based on your answers
I learn by going
where I have to go
from place to place
until I get home
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NaPoWriMo April 24 prompt on one liner from a favorite poem—
I learn by going where I have to go. Theodore Roethke The Waking
I want to be a super hero
to swoop down on you
pick you up
carry you to safety
a super hero
that can save one’s own self
can pick up the self
carry it to safety
saving myself from myself
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NaPoWriMo April 23 prompt to pick a super hero
pencil and the pillow
went to war
pencil thought the pillow would smother it
pillow wanted only to smother the pencil
this they could agree on
pencil had been sharpened
to a dangerous point by the pencil sharpener
pencil stabbed repeatedly into the pillow
tearing it into pieces
now the pencil called for more pencils
to fight the many pieces of pillow
escalating the battle
forgetting their true purpose
of writing and resting the head
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NaPoWriMo April 22 prompt on two unlikely subjects in a fight
Tiny blue
Juicy blue
Bluey
Blue chew
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NaPoWriMo April 21 prompt to repeat a color
after Executive Order No. 9066
Taken from their homes
hardly time to pack a suitcase
no pets can come
to this place between Sierra Nevada
and the Inyo Mountains
barbed wire kept them in
shot if you go out
yet in those confines of wire and desert
a community
a school
a hospital
gardens
orchard
baseball field
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NaPoWriMo April 20 prompt to write of an historical event. I visited the Manzanar National Historic Site in California today. A sad event in American history.
What if I had never married, the thought haunting my memories. My children say, “But then you would have never had us,” and I know they are right. How one lack of an event would make them disappear, and I think of Marty in Back to the Future. Haunting thought that it takes a lightning strike on the flux capacitor to make the future what it is.
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NaPoWriMo April 19 prompt to use haunting in a poem and then change haunting to hunting.
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What if I had never married, the thought hunting my memories. My children say, “But then you would have never had us,” and I know they are right. How one lack of an event would make them disappear, and I think of Marty in Back to the Future. Hunting thought that it takes a lightning strike on the flux capacitor to make the future what it is.
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