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NaPoWriMo, Day Nineteen
Had this notion on the way to work about the color of the world seeping up toward the sky in spring but on the way home I saw my first of the wonderful white flowering shrubs that to me really … Continue reading
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NaPoWriMo, Day Eleven
Today’s prompt from NaPoWriMo was to write a Bop: “The invention of poet Afaa Michael Weaver, the Bop is a kind of combination sonnet + song. Like a Shakespearan sonnet, it introduces, discusses, and then solves (or fails to solve) … Continue reading
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NaPoWriMo Day Seven
How to soothe this inner shivering mess •
in the words of the wise: make art, breathe deep,
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NaPoWriMo Day Five
This was a stretch and I know, before the editing is done, there will be even more alternate ending couplets than I have already…. Clean out the closet, the drawer-fuls of things making room, space, to welcome in the new … Continue reading
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NaPoWriMo Day 1
this telling of sky: •
the love it holds out to clouds •
protective of stars. Continue reading
Posted in clouds, Do the Work, haiku, NaPoWriMo, overhead, Poetry and Lyrics, sonnet, the creative process
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