This is a free write, where I closed my eyes and started typing as the lines presented themselves. I didn’t have anything in particular in mind I was being deprived of so it’s generic; at the same time the object of denial is important enough to elicit the stream: Force field goes up in the…
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Day 4 — Opossum Acrostic
image link Oft-unfairly-maligned Parental Omnivorous Shakespearian Snake-tailed Unguental Meanderer Please click on the image link to read the story of the ‘possum family rescue — includes video!
Day 3 — The valley of the shadow of death
image link The other ones were simple play Us, though, for real in ev’ry way Hurt brings life to shadow of death you walk, not talk, with silent breath; our growth at bay. * Mind in turmoil, throat has a lump, Our future can’t end o’er a bump! It wasn’t that bad — or was…
Day 2 — Jimmy*
image link I worked for many years in the juvenile court. Jimmy is a composite. The worker may leave the job, but the children will never leave the worker. Tanka: An unrhymed Japanese poem consisting of five lines of 5/7/5/7/7. Tanka is generally written in two parts. The first three lines is one part, and…
Day 1 — Surrender
* The ponds lie beyond the yard, beyond the fields, beyond thick brush between here and there. Each year the brush multiplies, ever more impassable, they seem ever farther away. This year the ponds were not seen, as the path leading to them has overgrown, and trees have fallen over it, from thunderstorms with sheer…
#OctPoWriMo2018 and more
https://media0.giphy.com/media/igrSs5Prw7AEo/giphy.gif OCTOBER WRITE POETRY MONTH 2018! October Write Poetry Month 2018 is coming up. I participated in the 2017 one and found it very enjoyable. At first it was daunting thinking about coming up with a brand new poem every day for 31 days. It was a challenge, and I discovered I was up to…
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