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 […]
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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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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 […]
as go the birds
wrote this odd little poem in iowa and it keeps tripping through my mind. thought i’d share it: so many there’s birds float flying past my seventh story window in […]
a poem on purpose
(written by hand on plane, transcribed with a cacophony of frog songs all around me) i am often now looking into beauty wherever i am seeing a falling down around […]
in the memory box
In the memory box I put your face In these first days of existence Expanding from an inside face To one others can see Containing Everyone who ever loved you […]
a complex movement
over and over again it becomes known the peace we seek is seeking us the joy a full bud awaiting our attention justice in our hands longing to be practiced […]
still of it
i am still of it this world full of sorrows i trace the lines back from my fingertips to my heart the feelings all start with distinction such unique purpose […]
for the staten island moores, in grief
for glenda and damian moore, i cannot even comprehend. for connor and brandon moore, rest in peace. this goddamn country sometimes sometimes it just takes too much i heard about […]
absentee blogger, casual poet
i know i haven’t written much of late. i go through periods where i am living too fast or too deeply for this space, no offense…lately it’s been a combination […]