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Showing posts with label #the100dayproject2020. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #the100dayproject2020. Show all posts
Friday, August 7, 2020

Day 79 of #the100dayproject - Poeming

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Poeming A poem moves through me like static, lifts the fine hairs of my arms. My pen and paper the conductor draws out the electricity of my...
Friday, July 31, 2020

Day 76 of #the100dayproject - Praise

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Praise I praise your tired palms the underbelly of your joints. I praise the curls of your hair their tangles like a black crown. I praise y...
Friday, July 24, 2020

Day 75 of #the100dayproject - Memoriam

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For day 75, I have submitted my poem titled Memoriam to Rattle's July 2020 Ekphrastic challenge. This month's picture inspired me t...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Day 74 of #the100dayproject - The Game

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The Game I show him fir cones, but the cones are too small. I show him moss and he stomps through it. I show him mushrooms ...
Monday, July 20, 2020

Day 73 of #the100dayproject - Even at Five Years Old

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I'm behind in posts, but I have been writing in my notebook many poems. I haven't had a lot of access of internet connection. We ...
Friday, June 26, 2020

Day 72 of #the100dayproject - Wild Thoughts

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Wild Thoughts Wind kicked a can through the gas station parking lot into my path, onto my foot, and I thought it might have coron...

Day 71 of #the100dayproject - Michigan

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This is an image during the coronavirus pandemic that has stuck with me for some time now. I can't get it out of my head, these men p...

Day 70 of #the100dayproject - Obit

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Obit They raised themselves from adult to old, schooled their grandchildren in the art of sitting in a chair and watching the w...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Day 69 of #the100dayproject - Night Shade

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Night Shade Morning glories fold their trumpets, white petals like moon sticks at dusk. My feet tired of the longest days; th...
Monday, June 22, 2020

Day 68 of #the100dayproject - At Dusk

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At Dusk Barfoot and the sun slows into gold; the cottonwood tufts and dandelion seeds turn into specs of shimmer. The miners an...
Friday, June 19, 2020

Day 65 of #the100dayproject - Existentialist

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Existentialist Anger is the taste of coffee without sugar or milk to sweeten it up. I want a little bitterness in my body; the ...
Thursday, June 18, 2020

Day 64 of #the100dayproject - California Poppy

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California Poppy Wind of semi-trucks, traffic and concrete, bitumen, litter, shredded tires. Leavings. Detritus. Homeless obj...
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Day 63 of #the100dayproject - Constant Companion

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Constant Companion I am married to the ache of my body, tuned like a musical instrument That must be plucked and played. Pain ...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Day 62 of #the100dayproject - Progeny

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Progeny Children rip tears in the fabric of the earth creating roads and tunnels of futures more terrible than the last.
Monday, June 15, 2020

Day 61 of #the100dayproject - Grace

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Grace Stripes on spider legs, how beautiful they must be to spiders. How long and lovely, agile, like thin boned fingers thread...

Day 55 through 60 of #the100dayproject

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Hello! Days 50 through 55 were spend on revision between May 26th and June 1st and days 55 through 60 were spent also on revising my poem...
Monday, May 25, 2020

Day 48 & 49 #the100dayproject - Revisions - Eating Practices

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Hello all! I've been taking the last two days to revise a series of three poems called Eating Practices  in time for my first submittal...
Sunday, May 24, 2020

Day 47 of #the100dayproject - Gatherings

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Gatherings Even in the heat of summer, With its abundance of sunshine promise of flowers and fruit, the squirrels still gather ...
Friday, May 22, 2020

Day 46 of #the100dayproject - Ritual

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Ritual And so he prays behind me, Completely bare, naked, In his purest form A statue of vulnerability. His skin itself a pra...

Day 45 of #the100dayproject - Sight

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Sight  The scent of flowers would hold a soft tone, A music, a humming that captures color Behind my eyelids. Even when I am ...