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
Cone of the tree
carved in balsam fir
breathe incense
lift the lid
to reveal
jade of hidden metaphor
lyrics of red jaspers
vision of lapis lazuli
set in free verse
oceans of stories
sound of the trees
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dVerse prompt in the box—- describe it, what’s in it, where to put it
I took a sheet of copper
cut it to a shape
filed the edge again
and again
rhythm of the filing
tranced me
lost me in time
until it was sharp —
I ask —
What came first
jewelry
or the sword?
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NaPoWriMo early bird prompt a day late. One of my first experiences in jewelry making. I almost cut myself.
I wake from slumber
lids heavy
eyes blurred
close them again
come back joyous dream
tell me another poem
fill my void with words
written in the mind’s eye
careless remembrance
is all that remains
bring it back
let me put it together again
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dVerse prompt to write a quadrille and use the word slumber
yellow boat resting
unpredictable ocean
comes out of doldrums
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dVerse prompt to write of yellow
Too much honey i poured straight from the jar
telling myself it would make things sweeter
how the taste would linger deep in my throat
poison to swallow when my love is far
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give too much honey myself and I’m weaker
find a balance on this menu of love
sweet and sour are good combinations
let it bind in robust flavor for two
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My love is greater with the right antidote
not one or the other but a nice mix
all ingredients combined in a bowl
stirred into an harmonious union
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Too much honey can spoil the batter
love is a complex evolving matter
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NaPoWriMo Day 9 to write a love sonnet
I’m Somebody! Who are you?
Are you Somebody too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Tell everyone! They won’t advertise you know!
How exciting to be Nobody!
How hidden like a clam
To not tell one’s name
all of June
To an unadmirering blog!
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NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 3 prompt to write an opposite poem from one of your favorite poems. I did Emily Dickinson’s I’m Nobody! Who are you?
It was obvious
I was never there
accusations
were that I was
since I was not lost
found my way around
knew the depth
of a verse
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Italics are titles of podcasts in this prompt from dVerse
I search the day for pretty words
turrets of rain pummel them into the garden
where they remain until rot comes
maggots eat into their bouma
maggot grows fat from majuscules
creep over minuscules
chomp ascenders and descenders
lying there
in the riddled corpse of a word
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dVerse prompt to write a poem of dissonance
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