Snake metaphor
Here’s a poem I wrote in 2010.
I’ve just spent an hour rewriting it.
Candle metaphor
What metaphor showed up in your world today?
Eyeglasses metaphor
Not understand the metaphor of yesterday’s compost poem? I’m sure he’s not the only one!
Birds metaphor
I have a friend who works in the TV biz. I started writing a poem about how tired she was after such long hours.
Shampooing simile
I was at the hair dresser today and in my current state of must find a metaphor, I wondered how I would describe the delicious feeling of her fingers scrubbing my scalp. As she moved me from the shampoo sink to her chair, I scribbled in my little notebook: Scrubbing my soapy head, Mommy’s strong fingers […]
The 2013 Progressive Poem by 30 Poets of the Kidlitosphere
This Progressive Poem has been moving from blog to blog, growing poet by poet, for 29 days until it’s come here for one final line.
These Dog Poems
It’s always fun to throw an unanswered question or two into a poem.
What I Hope Will Never Happen
If you’re my agent,
you tell me my writing stinks
and not to call you
or email
or send you a box of chocolates
or take you to see another Broadway show
ever again.
Black / White
After talking with my friend who was snowed-in back east, I met a brilliantly white Akita at the dog park.
Disciples at the Dog Park — what to cut?
In the dust of the park,
five dogs sit tightly around Tom,
who is standing,
holding a dried chicken chip,
as if it were a gold medallion.