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 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
Day 2
Today's prompt was to write a water poem, and it turns out that this is something I've been considering a fair amount lately in my poetry, and in my daily life. Florida is built on limestone (among other things) as opposed to bedrock, which means that as the oceans rise due to melting icecaps, we … Continue reading Day 2
Challenge: Haiku
Today's prompt at Poetic Asides was haiku, a form I've never been fond of. I never quite knew why I wasn't fond of it--it was more a visceral thing for me--but Jim Murdoch has outlined some pretty good reasons for disliking it, at least as it's generally understood. I'm going to take a longer look … Continue reading Challenge: Haiku
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?
National Poetry Month
So it's April again, time for a host of news articles which once again reference the opening lines of "The Waste Land." I've been in a dry spell as far as writing goes lately--too many other things crowding out my writing time, though the responsibility is mine. So I'm using this month to generate a … Continue reading National Poetry Month
Another Poem to Love 