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We six who ride our blog horse here
are rather like that Paul Revere
“One if by land, two if by sea,”
was revolution’s poetry
Sounds Like a Poem
Take your notebook to a park or a restaurant or a school or the beach and write down the sounds. It may help to close your eyes to hear them. Select the most interesting; write a poem.
Personification in a Poem
Think of an inanimate object and then write a poem using personification.
Envelope Poems
There’s gotta be a word for this.
For that thing that happens
when I need new tennis shoes
Alchemy
What toy or party favor do you remember fondly from childhood?
How Does it Feel?
My body after the hike felt so…so what? It was vibrating from the exercise and from the green of the day. This is what I tried to put down in a poem.
Mask Poem
CAT AT MIDNIGHT by April Halprin Wayland Night. She pads out to the porch, I hide. “Come sleep with me,” she says, while turning off the light. I wait. She goes to bed. Then mastering my fright, I slink inside. I’m careful where I tread I tiptoe past his plate and cross a rope he’s […]
Villanelle
Did I pretend? Perhaps a dream…or was it true?
Thirteen. I was thirteen. It was July.
I swear I didn’t make it up…that night I flew.
How Do You Describe a Smell?
X PUPPY PERFUME by April Halprin Wayland It’s powdery— cotton candy and dust from a carnival midway It’s musky— leaf litter of an old oak grove It’s all mixed up— crackers and couch pillows: your own furry fragrance your downy dogness as I burrow into you each morning. (c) 2011 April Halprin Wayland, all rights […]
Generosity
For this Friday’s post, I needed a poem about generosity.