There is an urgency, an immediacy, during an acute crisis. We do not think ahead, and we do not look back. At its most acute, impending death is merciful: We act, respond, re-act, and keep moving waiting for the next step, the next movement, the next breath, the next heartbeat… three two one . And […]
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April 7: Present-Joy
The prompt for today’s NaPoWriMo is based on a Tweet by Rachel McKibbens . Today I choose authenticity / revelation / no more clouded thoughts the bright, burning begins with a churning yearning THIS is the goal: to celebrate what is / not what is not / a double negative turns doubly positive a small […]
April 6: Possible, a day late…
The writing prompt for today asks poets to consider that which could be, IF…    As models, I looked at the suggested poems:  [Poem abut Naomi; Unsent] by Rachel Mennies and Daayan at Gold Streak River by Raena Shirali. That which is possible, / envisioned or ennobled / by hunches, intuition, wishes and guesses Revealed in the light after research / study of the facts / creating and manifesting in somnolence as […]
Poetry Month 2019
I was on vacation, then under the weather since the first. So, my first post this month will have [drumroll] FIVE poems! This year, I have chosen to use the prompts from NaPoWriMo. You can also sign up to participate! April 1: How to own a pet (or a child)Â Â Inspired by How to Make a […]
Poem a Day #3 April 2011
Green mountainous rocky coasts floating amid towering waves fingers of water grasping at shorelines land of my ancestors revered and honored the tree of life plundered by invaders who came and left or stayed and became one with the land legendary and strong like your daughters like your sons the survivors who never give up […]
Poetry Month: Mrs. S’s Challenge
This Spring, I will be teaching in a fifth-grade classroom! For poetry month, I am challenging myself to write one poem each day on a different geographical location — where I have not visited or lived. Which means I will need to do some cursory research (search engines, be warned!), and thinking. Thirty countries in […]
Haiku on Wednesday
gentle, stately, behemoths oyster barges waltzing on the pearl-gray waters an ocean, a sound, an inlet away the cries of fam’lies mourning great losses always, after disaster a pause to reflect and then business as normal.
Tom found it!
I wrote this poem a long time ago, and had lost all my hard copies. I knew it was “somewhere” on backup media, but no idea what type (tape, diskette, CD?) or where to find it at all. Last week, Tom discovered it and I ran off a hard copy. Here it is, recopied. Wisdom’s […]
Poetry Redux
Tomorrow, I teach 130(ish) 8th graders a lesson on poetry, and will focus on tanka, a Japanese form similar to, but longer than, haiku. I will also review rhymed verse, and free verse. Students will be asked to write two poems, of which one will be tanka, and the other may be anything they choose. […]
Poetry Month 2010 #30
a full set 4 plates 4 bowls 4 dainty saucers balancing elegant cups on the side board with coffee pot waiting 4 bread dishes with butter knives balanced 4 napkins, set on the side 4 goblets above 4 salad forks and 4 dinner forks 4 soup spoons waiting for the tureen 4 table spoons 4 […]