Middleness

crucial to finding the way is this there is no beginning or end only a lingering in the middle caught in the middle of nothing and nothing with no end marks and capital letters no space whiteness on a paper where a word isn’t and silence takes over just a blob of words on a page of middleness

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dVerse prompt on prosy using Jo Harjo’s line Crucial to finding the way is this: there is no beginning or end. combined exercise with Ursula K. Lê Guin’s Steering the Craft Exercise 2 to write with no punctuation

Word Waltz

One two three

One two three

One two three

Please don’t flee

Come and see

He and she

Dancing free

One two three

One two three

In Robert Bly’s Hometown

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remember the sound of your voice

reading my poem to the class

here something happens

poetry is making something happen

don’t be content with just words

make them leap off the page

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dVerse prompt to write about or to a favorite poet. I visited Madison, Minnesota a few weeks ago and went to the little house where Robert Bly wrote and it contains much of his library.

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A Word

Start with a word

not just any word

Word moist with truth

revealing my truth

Truth hard to find

seek til you find

Find its purpose

aware of purpose

Purpose to write

so hope to write

Write now

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NaPoWriMo Day 30 prompt to give directions. I hope this will help me keep writing after today.

Word Stop

my words travel

out into a void of hearing

wanting to stop the flow

to see if you are listening

I do that all the time

just stop in mid-sentence

or in a poem when

suddenly the words stop

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NaPoWriMo prompt for day 27. My choice

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Joywriting

Words move over the page

back and forth

no reason or destination

hoping to see a site

pick up friends

trying not to be seen

don’t honk the horn

when you’re done

just ditch it

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Joywriting is a chapter in Susan G. Woodbridge’s Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life With Words, a NaPoWriMo prompt for Day 18.

Joyriding is a term used for car theft that involves just driving around until it runs out of gas.

Tumbling Hydra

No justice No peace

No bacon No grease

No money No police

No food No obese

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NaPoWriMo prompt for the tumbling rhyme. Current events manifesting a

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Then and Now

Danaides

condemned to severe punishment in hell

compelled to fill with water

a vessel full of holes

water runs out as soon as poured in

their labor was infinite

punishment eternal

Sisyphus

tried to cheat death

carries a perpetual boulder

up the hill to see it roll back down again

Now the multiverse

peering into the unseen

universe beyond universe

endless explanations

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NaPiWriMo Day 12 prompt on past and future based on two dictionaries Lempriere’s Classical Dictionary and the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction

Literature

“I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.” Holden Caulfield

Kindle me

to sleep at night

with words of escape

imprison me

send me from cell to cell

with your chapters

packed full of defeats

and promises

each character a splice

of an unfolding humanity

Expectation

This being human is more than I expected

not a turnip rooted dramatically where seeded

my mobility’s extra push is get up and go

walk in the forest

hike a mountain

swim in the ocean

pray

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dVerse prompt on Rumi’s This being human is…..