Finally getting around to posting the piece I wrote for read.write.poem this week!!! I had to go thru books I own and use the last words in them in a poem. Thw chosen words are the first words in each line…
Pieces of trash drift across your
choice of homeland. Here, I can’t find
peace. [...]
What I want from all of you are words. I want everyone who reads this blog between now and my birthday (January 4) to post a word in the comments section.
What I’ll do with it, you’ll have to wait and see.
In other news, I love words. I was working on a poem in [...]
A little writers block, and what I started writing for the poetry chalenge last week was just too sprawling to finish yet. So, here is my three pieces of me poem…
I can’t write as well as I used to, the blank
stare of another page is no longer a promise
or refuge. I see guilt [...]
I can’t be anyone else for you under yellow leaves in the fall.
When we broke up, you walked to my plaque shaped like a heart and flexed fingers.
You can’t expect to return to where you’ve been - pain once you’ve gone away.
Classical music is background noise to telemarketer phone calls.
So, I got a great prompt at read write poem: take all your anxieties and write them into a poem. I like it. I’m a pretty anxious lady. So, here’s my poem!
Anxiety
I am in the dark. I am the cracks
between basement stairs where I
might slip and choke to death.
I [...]
