a poem a day
for a long thirty day month
I am poemed out
Posts Tagged ‘napowrimo2011’
napowrimo day 30
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged napowrimo2011, poetry on April 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Napowrimo day 29
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged napowrimo2011, poetry on April 29, 2011 | 6 Comments »
From a Big Tent Poetry prompt.
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I have always loved rocking
rocking chairs, a boat, a swing:
shift your weight and you’re floating
feeling that you could take wing.
Napowrimo day 28
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged napowrimo2011, poetry on April 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Napowrimo day 27
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged napowrimo2011, poetry on April 27, 2011 | 5 Comments »
This was inspired by a Big Tent Poetry prompt.
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What’s at the centre?
The cherry on the top bang in the middle;
wicks running central to the candle’s core;
the in-breath, the out-breath, noticed as it flows;
heartwood which rots yet leaves a living tree;
the single leg of a tapping table;
a paperback’s glossy picture pages;
clusters of stamens awaiting the bees;
a farm near Fox’s Drayton-in-the-Clay;
the magnetic coils of earth’s molten rock;
and in silence, the small still voice of God.
Napowrimo day 26
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gender, napowrimo2011, poetry on April 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Guess where I had to go today?
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Gynaecologist
Heels up and knees out
let those folks with microscopes
probe your sexual sins.
NaPoWriMo day 25
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged napowrimo2011, poetry on April 25, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Response to the One Single Impression prompt, place.
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Park
Your flowers are
breaking out:
I cannot name
the blue one
or this tiny
white one but
no matter; you
don’t know mine.
Welcome or not
I visit
in all weathers
and love you
when your flowers
are just out.
NaPoWriMo day 24
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged napowrimo2011, poetry on April 24, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Sitting with the snake
coils wringing out my heart
choking up my throat
venom in my eyes
I breathe compassion for snakes
and try not to fight.
Napowrimo day 23
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged napowrimo2011, poetry on April 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Escape, a Big Tent Poetry prompt.
Trigger warning.
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Into the blackness:
a poor end but it’s better
than staying, worthless.
NaPoWriMo day 22
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged napowrimo2011, poetry on April 22, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I am still going, just skipped a couple of days of posting! This poem was from another Poetic Asides prompt, and it’s in the Big 10 form again.
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The thing about being the only one
is that it’s actually very common.
I’m the only one writing this poem;
even if you are reading it aloud
or with friends or in a classroom, you are
the only person reading it just so.
Your eyeball, for example, is unique
ditto your optic nerve and synapses.
This is what each atom has in common:
it is the only one just there, just now.
NaPoWriMo day 19
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged napowrimo2011, poetry on April 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s form is once again from Poetic Asides.
Warning: the themes of this poem may be distressing or triggering to some.
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A Hundred Syllables About Self-Harm
Tender spots along my limbs speak of knocks
obtained when the externalisation
of my demons breaks through to physical
effects; sleeves do not save me, nor do socks,
nor does a depersonalisation.
Bruises come and go as if whimsical
and skin heals, or sometimes it doesn’t,
so I resist the normalisation
telling myself I shouldn’t, I mustn’t
but I need the demons back in their box.
