Symmetry
Day 192 prompt: Symmetrical Symmetry is not my taste I prefer stuff motley placed Angled rugs and mismatched seats Unique socks for different feet Crooked hat on side-swept hair Things off […]
Warmth
Day 191 prompt: Warm (an acrostic poem) Writing Always Restores My Troubled Heart
The Pay Gap
Day 190 prompt: The Letter V Women work hard Just like the guys But averages tell us Men get the prize The ones with a penis Bring home more treasure We […]
Rough Day
Day 189 prompt: Rough looks like it was a rough day a tough day a really had enough day your shirt is stained your face is drained you’re moving like your […]
In Your House
Day 188 prompt: In Your House What are you keeping in your house? Are you storing rubbish like a mouse? That pile of papers over there … if it disintegrated, would […]
Gosh
Day 187 prompt: The Letter G we guess the guest who gave these gifts got Walgreen’s goods on the graveyard shift a gray garbage can graced by Oscar the Grouch and […]
Blue
Day 186 prompt: Blue (a haiku) periwinkle crepe swishes whiffs of White Linen as grandma dances
Fairytale Wedding
Day 185 prompt: Fairytale all she wanted was a fairytale wedding the groom’s pants ripped the pastor’s wife stripped the organist was drunk the flowers smelled like skunk the flower girl […]
So Hot
Day 184 prompt: Landscape (a haiku) rusty blades of grass grate ankles as pores bleed sweat murderous summer
Words Take Hold
Day 183 prompt: Athletic (With this poem, I am halfway through a year of writing one poem a day!) People have used many words to describe me Some objective Short Freckled […]
Furniture Arrangement
Day 182 prompt: Comfy & Cozy Comfy and cozy Sat on a couch Comfy walked away The sofa got hot And crowded and cranky A no-good place to stay
Sunrise | Norma’s New Day
Approaching the topic of “sunrise,” Norma planned to do something calm and beautiful. “And that’s not what it came out to be at all,” she said. To create the piece at […]
Sunrise | Paul’s Sketch and Thoughts
When we met to discuss “sunrise,” Paul brought the sketch below. It’s his recollection of a design he saw on a feed sack — something we once had in abundance. […]
Fashion with Staying Power
Day 181 prompt: Fashion We ridiculed Pajama Jeans My family and I Then for laughs They bought me some At Walgreen’s, on the sly On Christmas day They stopped to look […]
Balance is a Myth
Day 180 prompt: Asymmetrical why do we seek balance? some mythical symmetry between work and play public and private activity and rest? even the lopsided human heart is cradled by lungs […]
Beth Nyland 