Days 26 & 27 of 30!

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My Dear WordPress Friends!

Thank you for your continued enthusiasm and patience with me! The joyful interactions that have been happening on this site have served to keep me afloat during what has proven to be quite an extreme challenge for me. You’ve made it possible, and for that I am grateful!

Please take a couple of minutes to check out this AMAZINGLY quirky, inspiring & POETIC video I found on YouTube (link below) to accompany my little ditty on Cuttlefish! You won’t be sorry!

 

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Broken (Day 26)

Your kindergartener learned
a new trick on the monkey bars
yesterday…

Cuttlefish (Day 27)

Watching
the way you negotiate the world
by climbing into platonic forms
to become the myriad     ideal bodies
of the sea floor…

Continue reading both pieces (& catch up on Days 1-25) here!

Poems for Days 23 & 24 of the May 30/30 Challenge are up at Tupelo Press!

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plants in moonlightI got #24 in last night at about 10 pm, so count it! It’s coming down to the wire here, and I may very well have dug as deep as deep goes, but who knows? No one’s singing just yet… Thanks so much for following along with me this month, everyone!

Psychedelic (Day 23)

in a substance-less trip
to the universe yet to be
uncovered
where atoms infused with
one and a half teaspoons of photons…

Osmosis, and the Willingness of Light to Participate (Day 24)

With thanks to Ken Gierke* for supplying the title!

When     at the behest of a word
light—as in     Let there be…—was parsed
apart from her swirling enmeshment in shadow
such that stultified yang stretched out
into a borderless     yin-less orphan
only to be instructed to believe it was good
was the day she dissociated from her true self
somewhere in spacetime…

Continue reading both pieces (& catch up on Days 1-22) here!

*Check out Ken’s lovely work on WordPress at rivrvlogr !

Poems for Days 21 & 22 of the May 30/30 Challenge are up at Tupelo Press

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Insomniac’s Fugue

sleepless penitence sings the present inheritance
composed of feckless forebears & their victims
repeating measures in blood    an imperative surging
the body awake at night…

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Day 20 Poem of the May 30/30 Challenge is up at Tupelo Press!

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Belladonna

Les Belladones sans Merci

What ails you, Keyboard Warrior,
alone & typing in your room?
No nightshades blossom on my screen
     to face our doom…

What ails you, Keyboard Warrior,
with swollen eyes & bearing rough?
That tawny succor in your mug
won’t be enough…

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Poems for Days 18 & 19 of the May 30/30 Challenge…

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Insecurity (Day 18)

born a bastard
i was cast
on a doorstep of nobles     & founded
in a mold of changing hands
& intrigue…

Rationale for Missing Deadlines (Day 19)

As a child     I so loved looking from the outside in
at frozen images portraying quaint examples
of how time took longer
for folks in the olden days…

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My Day 17 Poem for the May 30/30 Challenge is up at Tupelo Press!

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Things I Cannot Say 

With reverence for His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and with special thanks to Robert Okaji for supplying the title that breathed life into this poem 

Even when you are a one-year-old jumping out of your crib
(you have no reason for having jumped, but once it’s done,
and the thud you’ve made that was loud but didn’t hurt…

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My Day 16 Poem for the May 30/30 Challenge is up at Tupelo Press

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Heavy Downpour --- Image by © Anthony Redpath/Corbis

Ode on Mayuary

With apologies to John Keats

You know, you shouldn’t go to Cannon Beach

To brace for a flood in the parking lot,

Nor in optimism attempt to reach

On foot the corner store…

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My Day 15 Poem for the May 30/30 Challenge is up at Tupelo Press!

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chimera

Chimera

What cause did I provision for my own death
to be ordered & carried out?  Which of my features

amounted to monstrosity?     My prescience to forewarn your
Lycian forebears of cataclysmic storms & volcanic eruptions? (…)

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I’ve managed to scrape to the half-way point, and would still be ever so grateful for your generous HELP!

My Day 14 Poem for the May 30/30 Challenge is up at Tupelo Press

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Chickadee

Photo by Cameren Harper

Trumpluenza

  

It isn’t enough, it seems, that we’ve again afforded them
a safe haven on our porch in which to rear their broods:
The once-adorable, amiable models of avian parental prowess…

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