Today
words
were
not
enough
to
write
a
poem
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NaPoWriMo Day 23 prompt to be brief but on point
Words
Memory
It’s just me collecting words from memory to bring forth a future.
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dVerse prompt on memory combined with writing my first American sentence.
Fall
three dots on my phone
wiped the mud with my sweater
rainy season now
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
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.
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
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
wordshophop 