Dear Daddy For my birthday, You said you would visit. I dressed with care and waited patiently. Saving my cake and presents to share with you. Presents unopened, I went to bed in tears vowing to never wait again, and if you ever return, I will tell you so. CLA [...]
A Premature Farewell Twenty-nine poems in twenty-nine days. The 30th and final day, I forgot to post. My attention span left Without finishing the job. Damn. CLA Poetic Asides, Day 30 Prompt: write a farewell poem Posted May 1st, 8:41 a.m. (HST) [...]
Never Learning I learned my nevers as a child. Never take candy from strangers. Never take wooden nickles. Never count chickens before they’ve hatched. Never look a gift horse in the mouth. Never bite the hand that feeds you. Never cry over spilt milk. Never sign up to write a [...]
Promptly Sestina, He Said “Write a sestina,” he said, and here I sit with eighty seconds to compose. I hate writing to a time limit and a prompt. I was suckered in by the romance of, National Poetry Month. Some of us have to work you know. I don’t get [...]
Elsewhere Teenage strife clashes with parents tomorrow lurks beyond the moon and life seems about to happen elsewhere…. CLA Poetic Asides, Day 27 Prompt: write a poem about longing [...]