Tag: poems
Worlds
Court of Dreams
Alleviate our brooding, court of dreams, where evenings forge grit and hone idyll. Here, jackals kill incest, kill lies. And mourning knows opportunity: profits quintuple, roses sing, taffeta rustles, under vociferous willows, convicting him.
Today
Quivers rain
Every foe gone
Belong(s)
Sandman
Yield
My highness
(No) lamentations
Time-space
Having/Halving
Blue Country
Glitter bonnets
All bounty
Flat happy hills
Kansas forces gather
(Keep stacking)
Plan your dreams in advance.
A blue coated dove, a quaint robin
For my mother and brother.
Thousands of days
After seeing old friends.
(the judge hurts)
I’ve been hanging onto this wily one for months.
abecedarian no. 31
Started with “sparkle”.
abecedarian no. 30
An abecedarian sequence is, ideally, a 26-word poem, each word in alphabetical order. This one born out of “a burnt corpse” (A-B-C)
(abecedarian no. 26)
This one is about a boy.
(abecedarian no. 25)
Born from the word “burden.”
Small
My late husband took this photograph in Oaxaca in 2006. I marked it up.
Poetry Cheat Sheet
I am not a poet, but I was convinced last year that writing poetry was good writerly exercise. Cross-training, if you will. Writing poetry in prescribed verse can range from an exciting adventure in wordsmithing to a creative puzzle relaxing your mind before you float off to sleep at night. Words have meaning. Words have sounds. […]
Box of Abecedarian Sequences
The Blacklight Candelabra challenges us to re-imagine a box of chocolates in writing form. A collection of unique and separate [writing] forms a greater whole. One rarely finds a single small piece of [writing] that ascends to the heights that the variety provides. I had been thinking for some time of putting the Abecedarian Sequences into a visual art form. […]