Category: Writing

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I’m participating in WordPress.com’s Writing201: Poetry that finishes up this week. "Day 10 has arrived: let’s end the course with a bang. Sonnets, chiasmus, the future — en garde!" I skipped out on both the sonnet and chiasmus, but I finally came up with something for "future."   The sun shines on a new world, barren, desolate, deserted. All who once worshipped her once have now fled, flown across the galaxies in search of a new refuge. But still she burns, too brightly now, killing the few remaining lives she has spent millennia nourishing.     ...

I’m participating in WordPress.com’s Writing201: Poetry that finishes up this week. "Day 9. That can only mean one thing: let’s make a list. With a pair of scissors and a map." Today's assignment is about landscapes, found poetry and lists. Here are my two tries at found poetry. I might try one of the other parts later.   ...

I’m participating in WordPress.com’s Writing201: Poetry that finishes up this week. "What’s in your drawer? Let’s praise it (to its face) with odes and apostrophes. Hello, Day 8!" This is not actually something that's in my drawer, it's entirely imaginary, but my first try, an ode to my pencil, just didn't work. I may have to try an ode another day. The Photo I was cleaning out the drawer, finding bits of the past buried under the jumble of today. I found it, that photo, torn and creased, hiding in the back corner. We were so young then, you and I. Do you remember? I hadn't thought about you for ages, hadn't missed you, hadn't wondered what you were doing, who you were with. The sunset has dulled, the sand darkened, but we're still smiling, hand in hand. Do you remember? ...

I’m participating in WordPress.com’s Writing201: Poetry that finishes up this week. "It’s Day 7. Time to think about vowels, with your fingers. Prosaically." Painting Her fingers, spattered with crimson and cobalt, merge with the brush. Stroke by stroke, she paints life onto nothingness in vibrant, pulsing hues. The colors stream across the canvas; mingling, fighting, circling, forming, becoming the creature in her mind, the one who haunts her, begging to be released. ...