Sometimes when I’m bored or desperate to create, I open my Poem-A-Day book, turn to a random page, and free-write. This time around it was “Do your best to write the worst poem ever.” The Worst Poem Ever I want…
Tag: poetry
Today, I hate poetry
Does this post even need an introduction? Sometimes ya got it; sometimes ya don’t! Today, I hate poetry Writing poems is like reading a book in braille— I know where to place my fingertips, but I still can’t find the…
Dancing Grass
I took my kids on a picnic in the backyard today. (Before you give me the credit I don’t deserve, I got the idea from a close friend, who did the same with her young daughter earlier this week. Thank…
The Crooner Or The Poet?
April 2021 Poem-A-Day Challenge, Day 24 Today’s prompt is to write a question poem. The leader suggested a few different ways to come at this one; I chose to make my title a question and also to end my poem…
Sidekick
I’ve never been much of a poet but sometimes the urge will hit me, and I’m compelled to act—or in this case write. I don’t remember exactly when I first drafted this poem, but it was somewhere in the vicinity…
Oh Solitary Tree
“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.” –Kahlil Gibran I came across this quote the other night and it spoke to me. (I even taped it to my laptop so that I can read it every day.) If…