prompt: write about wine-and-love. there there blurred morning pouring too soon through that sliver of window and onto the mussed bed hush please whisper my night eyes north stars for […]
Year: 2014
napowrimo poem 10: Here Now
prompt: write your own advertisement-poem. this was a challenging one, there isn’t much i like to pitch or sell. but i have lately been convinced of the value of landing […]
napowrimo poem 9: a song of song titles
prompt: take any random song play list (Spotify) and use the next five song titles on that randomized list in a poem. my song titles: nirvana (sam smith) who you […]
napowrimo poem 8: rewrite of audre lorde’s now
prompt: rewrite a famous poem, giving it your own spin. i selected audre lorde’s Now as the poem to rewrite, because i am foolish and ambitious. Woman power is Black […]
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birthing is divine work (doula reflections)
i got to be a doula this past weekend. i do this work rarely, for loved ones. well…sort of rarely, as i think of all of my work as having […]
napowrimo poem 7: a love poem for home
prompt: write a love poem . . . but the object of the poem should be inanimate. you know the way to hold love your southern face pours golden light […]
napowrimo poem 6: Detroit out my window
Prompt: Take a good look outside your window. Spend a minute or so jotting down all the nouns you see outside. Tree. Car. Bus. Dog. Then spend a minute or […]
napowrimo poem 5: golden shovel of ‘let it cut more deep’
prompt: write a golden shovel. find a poem you love, and write a new poem where the last word of each line is from the poem you love such that […]
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napowrimo poem 4: lune form
prompt: write a lune. a lune is the american haiku form, based on word count, not syllables. three words, five words, three words. doula poem/song: baby, come down the way […]
napowrimo poem 3: a charm for time travel
prompt: write a charm – a simple rhyming poem, in the style of a recipe-slash-nursery rhyme poem: a charm for time travel one sharp tooth’s bite two breaths of nirvana […]