365 (well, 366 actually) Days of Poetry
At the moment, my poem-a-day project lives on “Edgewise,” my tumblr site. I intend to relocate it here soon. Meanwhile, here’s what I said as I kicked off this somewhat […]
Category Archives: Poetry
F-F-F-Friendships
Day 68 prompt: friendships Fleeting the one who never lunched again, after she started working somewhere else Fragile the bond that broke, irreparable, when I uttered one wrong word […]
Learning the Motions
Day 67 prompt: motion Teaching children to make a joyful noise Sometimes the lyrics are hard Ancient terms they’ve not encountered Long words they can barely pronounce So we […]
Word Travels Fast
Day 66 prompt: lots & lots & lots (a limerick) On Twitter your posts are confined To one-forty-character lines Through retweets and replies These short notes can fly To millions […]
Subject of Rejection
Day 65 prompt: reflect You might reject The path I trekked As incorrect And I can’t object For I recollect That in effect I didn’t disinfect Before I […]
Slam on the Brakes
Day 64 prompt: slam on the brakes On my way to work Passenger seat occupied By valuable essentials Briefcase, purse, laptop Squirrel in the road Slam on the […]
E-Meal
Day 63 prompt: the letter E enormous ernestine empress of east moline eats Eggs over easy every evening til queasy but effects an exception if there’s an […]
Ordinary Worker
Day 62 prompt: ordinary I think and talk and write for pay I rarely ever miss a day “High performer,” so they said I thought I would get ahead But […]
Wine Flight
Day 61 prompt: flight swipe the bar top place five spotless glasses straight line evenly spaced delicate stems supporting voluptuous bowls present each bottle stroke each label […]
Tumbling Free
Day 60 prompt: door a breath of an idea whispers its way in and quietly starts inflating balloons in my imagination one after another until their colors and fullness […]
Private Stash
Day 59 prompt: chocolate In my office I have files Bins and boxes And some piles Things to read Things to do Things out from And things in […]
Warning: Yellow Baby
Day 58 prompt: yellow warning yellow baby jaundice severe enough for concern leave her? no! show us what to do we yield to your advice handle with […]
Zoo Strategy
Day 57 prompt: stuffed animals (a haiku) at feeding time I follow the zookeeper to see stuffed animals
What to Do with Cheese
Day 56 prompt: cheese Grate it Perk that plate of pasta Shave it Sharpen a Caesar salad Bake it Mound up molten maccaroni Dice it Poke in […]
Sudden Spring
Day 55 prompt: spring Sandy sleeps dreaming of catnip or a goldfish freed from its bowl Shiver … Sandy stirs ears twitching at a disturbance I don’t […]
Beth Nyland 