A poem (?) I did at a writers’ group based on this prompt. Charley said he’d like to have it for the archives (which don’t yet exist) so I’m typing it up emailing him and blogging it. The book of prompts is called “Finger Exercises for Poets” by Dorianne Laux.
Tag: poems
Space
How a space is organized (or un-organized) matters. Where is your jar of pens? Do you have one? Are they scattered everywhere, or forever going missing? What do you see from where you sit? Is it demoralizing? Is it pleasant? Is it beautiful? As I sit here, there are 8 containers of pens and markers […]
New Postcard Poems (& design in use since August 2024)
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Tremors Ran Through the Dust
[…]Alive with possibilities he strode into the room / Falling to pieces he went over a cliff / Tremors ran through the dust […]
He Chose a Path
[…] And in all the tracing lines, he also saw the path to life eternal / He chose a path / He drew down on his breath, and went / There were cubes of puzzle / There were escape-checkmate-in-three problems […]
INTERLUDE #! ::: But See Disclaimer
[…] in the ever turning evening / we blossom ever into thus / and seeing our terrors not upon us, / we rest merrily
and seeing our lives blossom, / we dream into darkness, […]
Lost in Mist 