In honor of Mary Oliver’s work, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that is based in the natural world: it could be about a particular plant, animal, […]
Tag: poetry
home going
Now for our prompt (optional, as always). One of the most popular British works of classical music is Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations. The “enigma” of the title is widely believed […]
elegy for masks
write an elegy – a poem that mourns or honors someone dead or something gone by. And I’d like to ask you to center the elegy on an unusual fact […]
how to love supreme
write a poem inspired by, or in the form of, a recipe! It can be a recipe for something real, like your grandmother’s lemon chiffon cake, or for something imaginary, […]
napowrimo: love notes to black liberation
this is my third year (i think) of doing national poetry writing month (napowrimo). looking forward to it. the first time was random, the second time i did a sci […]
boundaries and borders
i have been thinking a lot about borders and boundaries. borders are unnatural lines imposed by humans on lands, in bodies of water that taste like tears, between each other, […]
how do we remember we are miracle?
we have to become more worthy of our own skins we have lost the miraculous gaze we only give it to the newborn but everyone is utterly unique amongst the […]
one week of poems on love and terror
i was supposed to be working on a novel this month but it will keep. instead i have written thousands of other kinds of words – blog words, journal words, […]
blue moon in sagittarius
i am not glowing for love i am being loved, love and lover at all times i don’t mimic the sun don’t fold into me anyone else’s heat my scar […]
mama (contradictory thoughts on mother’s day)
i am not a mama i was never a mama (i was with child i was a brief and clueless mother) i am a potential mama a realm of all […]
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