My parents would have celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary this week had my father not died 26 years ago.
Reblogged from the Lexington Poetry Month blog.
Our 50th Year
there will be no party, no surprise
trip to Hawaii, no family photographs
it feels so hollow, this
anniversary, a golden clanging
bell with no clapper, like me
without you
It feels strange to post a day eleven poem on day twelve. I offer the following by way of explanation.
Lame
today I must write a lame poem
because I don’t have time to write
a bad poem — truly bad poetry
takes as much skill and effort as good
poetry — perhaps even more
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Accents Publishing, Lexington Poetry Month, writing challenges
Reblogged from the Lexington Poetry Month blog.
Sagittarius
She sits at the table, hands wrapped around fresh
coffee. Her fingers trace out of habit
the large red heart on the mug. Yesterday’s news
lies open to the amusements
page, a shared morning ritual now
suddenly solitary. She has finished
the crossword and scramble, laughed
too loud at the comics, clucked amazement
at Dear Abby. All that remains
are the horoscopes. Beneath her husband’s sun
sign she reads, “Your challenge is to explore
the freedom of commitment.” With a sharp
bark of laughter, she lowers the mug and draws the waiting
pile of divorce papers across the table.
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Lexington Poetry Month, LexPoMo, poetry practice, writing challenges, writing practice
Reblogged from the Lexington Poetry Month blog.
Drafting
today a sinuous slipstream of poems
roared onto the straightaway
each drawing the one that followed
so close there was no wake
each pushing the one before
ever faster toward the finish
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Lexington Poetry Month, LexPoMo, poetry practice, racing metaphors, writing challenges, writing practice
Reblogged from the Lexington Poetry Month blog.
(untitled)
no suffering can enter
where my name rests
nightly on your lips
if you but hold me
in your prayers
I shall be safe
whatever befall
whatever befall
I shall be safe
in your prayers
if you but hold me
nightly on your lips
where my name rests
no suffering can enter
Comments and suggestions (especially for a title) are welcome!
Last week I signed up at Accent Publishing’s blog to be an official participant in the Lexington Poetry Month writing challenge. To wit, I pledged to write a poem a day during the month of June and post at least five of them to the writing challenge blog. Doing so will also allow my work to be considered for an anthology that will be published later this year.
This is the poem I wrote yesterday, the first day of the challenge. Today’s poem was about gout and is not likely to appear anywhere unless someone wants to publish it after I’m dead.
Grace
I promised to write
a poem every day
for a month —
thank heaven I did not
promise to write
good poems
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Accents Publishing, Lexington Poetry Month, writing challenges
