when you sit up and scream into the night and you’re not alone but who’s beside you keeps on sleeping when you pad out into the kitchen open the fridge and the white and the light stare at you like a morgue when you sit down with a glass of juice your hand around it… Continue reading napowrimo: when the world changes
Tag: poetry
poem store on a nearly wordless wednesday
poem, i mean, image by pastaboy sleeps
haiku
moving right along here with NaPoWriMo and a poem every day … today: 5 haiku. fading, the noises draw her ears out. she listens. but the song is gone. longer and longer. it takes. for the sun to drown. in… the.. pacific. washing the dishes under the old neon lamp. clean cup. wrinkled hands. alone… Continue reading haiku
magnetic blogging poetry
in the spirit of magnetic poetry, i took riverwriter’s latest poem, precise, and used the words to write my own little silly ditty: above a conversation today, carefully clenching fiery fingers, dark forgotten stones have fixed the pink predawn window. blood tinges the valley. the things NaPoWriMo makes me do!
lazy easter afternoon – a haibun
today i’m serving up a haibun. it can be seen as a form of lyric prose – so that counts as poetry, doesn’t it? “because it’s the death of your ego”, he says, and his voice resonates across the dining room, bounces off the long table, right across the bread that’s slowly getting stale, slinks… Continue reading lazy easter afternoon – a haibun
divorce: a ballad
he screams at her and she screams back he in this corner, she in the other over there. the children, they run back and forth with “who will fix our toys?” she screams at him and he screams back but only in their heads. their mouths are silent and their eyes don’t meet. the children… Continue reading divorce: a ballad
napowrimo: arrested
oops! i’m supposed to WRITE a poem a day, not just post one. well, here we go, raw and quick: later than you’d think i arrested it but it all just got too … you know … so i had to put an end to it. like one of those big guys i showed up… Continue reading napowrimo: arrested
napowrimo: random poem
for national poetry writing month, i’ll be posting one of my poems every day. today: a random poem, selected blindly from one of my poetry databases. all over this land my bell rings with water in it it rings and it brings cups full of overflowing worries nagging guilting voices saying no no no my… Continue reading napowrimo: random poem
buddhist carnival, the first in 2010
it’s january 15, and time to serve up this month’s buddhist carnival, a selection of posts from the buddhasphere. here is this month’s poem: a first kensho when things abruptly shift like part of the body misaligned by a sharp move when the house goes, or the he or she, any room at once gets… Continue reading buddhist carnival, the first in 2010
mental illness awareness week 2009
today marks the end of mental illness awareness week. here are some bloggers who wrote about it, and a poem a rant against mental illness awareness week and the desire to decrease stigma around mental illness about childhood schizophrenia, by a blogger who wants to set yo head straight this week appears to be supported… Continue reading mental illness awareness week 2009