Today is a self-portrait, and so I decided to go back to some ground I covered 8 or 9 years ago when I discovered that my father had been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease since, like my father, like all of us really, who I am is tied up with the workings of my brain. … Continue reading Day 9
Day 8
Thursdays are going to be brutal for me in getting this done this month, mostly because I have such a long workday, and fitting a poem into an already taxing schedule is rough. Today's challenge was to write a poem about a tool, and while I admit I was considering making a joke of it, … Continue reading Day 8
Day 7
Another title prompt--this one asks you to use the word "until" in the title. This one also took me a while to get into, but I'm not completely disappointed with the final product. Just a side note about the way I feel about these poems: I'm self-deprecating about my writing in the first place--it's a … Continue reading Day 7
Day 6
Today is an ekphrastic poem, i.e. one which responds to a work of non-literary art. I've been kicking this idea around in my head for a few weeks now--okay, years, since I noticed the change in this particular piece just a few weeks after Hurricane Wilma came though south Florida in 2005. Here's what it … Continue reading Day 6
Day 5
Today's prompt is for a TMI poem, and I just didn't feel that. Not that I'm shy about sharing--in fact, if you follow my twitter feed or become a Facebook friend of mine, you'll discover that I'm often guilty of overshare. My problem was more that I just don't like to write grossout poems, and … Continue reading Day 5
Day 4
A history poem, huh? I didn't really know where to go with this, since in a lot of ways, most poems I write are history poems--they're histories of my time as a Jehovah's Witness or my relationship with Amy or my daughter or any of the other moments in my life, and I didn't want … Continue reading Day 4
Day 3
Didn't like today's prompt, to be quite frank. I'm always resistant to requirements on a title, especially one where the rule is to use a word in a particular way, in this case to use the word "partly" as the beginning of a phrase of some sort. Today's offering isn't as good as I'd like, … Continue reading Day 3
NaPoWriMo
Last year, I participated in the poem-a-day challenge at Poetic Asides. Robert Lee Brewer posts a prompt every day and you're supposed to write a poem in response--30 poems in 30 days--which for a less prolific writer like me is a draining experience, especially since most of the poems I wrote last year turned out … Continue reading NaPoWriMo
My first flarf?
This is written as part of the Poetic Asides National Poetry Month writing challenge. I wasn't all that into the prompt, and this came out, perhaps a bit snarkier than I intended, but there it is.All I want ispeace love and understandingand this lamp,the breeze off the ocean,noise putty,a loaf of bread, a jug of … Continue reading My first flarf?
Another Poem to Love 