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
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
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
Another Poem to Love 