POETRY
#NatPoWriMo day 15
By the Time the Irises Bloom
I hope you’ll meet me here
in the spring of next year.
When the soils are still cool
yet the air lifts a warm smile.
We’ll sit here and rest
a long, deep-breath while.
You’ll speak of the furrow
that deepens your brow,
and I, a hand passing
over curls, time-turned silver.
I know the irises will bloom,
just as I have promised you.
The purple lips, yellow-hazed,
fresh bellies of scent, enraptured,
will speak of passed time,
tender with our earthen wounds,
careful as the damp, cool womb.
We’ll linger as time turns noon.
#NatPoWriMo Day 14: Write a poem with sound.
Come Here, Little Kitty
I am tired and I don’t want to sleep.
I am three.
Come here, little kitty
rumble for me.
Your warm body, tiny,
a furry tickle on my cheek.
You suckle my ear
and I, tiny me, finally sleep,
with the hum in your belly
pacifying me.
Thanks for reading about this moment from my childhood, brought alive today through the magic of poetry. I hope you could feel and hear the purring of that little kitten — a very real thing in my tiny life until that little kitty sucked my earlobe raw so much that my parents rehomed…
POETRY
Under the Crescent Moon
There are a myriad of possibilities,
here beneath this crescent moon;
shining as a lesser version of itself,
yet, illuminating the sky.
The bright, crescent thumbnail of God.
A fixed mark, resolute reminder
of cyclic change, an austere smile
amongst the stars. I too, am
partially concealed, wrapped in a cloak
of illusion, of infinite grandeur,
a celestial, shifting woman,
shining like stars.
Do not think of me as a narcissist. …
SOCIETY
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, 12 jurors now hold the fate of Derek Chauvin as they deliberate his guilt or non-guilt in the death of George Floyd. In a last ditch effort to secure a mistrial, the defense team brought up statements made by congresswoman Maxine Waters, but the judge was having none of that, citing that the jurors have been instructed to avoid all media.
“I hope we get a verdict that says guilty, guilty, guilty,” she said in response to reporters’ questions. “And if we don’t, we cannot go away. We’ve got to stay on the street. We get more…
A few examples
For #NatPoWriMo, one of our prompts was to learn about Onomatopoeia, a literary device that evokes aural imagery. This is a device I have used in previous work and a few of those works come to mind.
on·o·mat·o·poe·ia
/ˌänəˌmadəˈpēə,ˌänəˌmädəˈpēə/
noun
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g. cuckoo, sizzle ).
the use of onomatopoeia for rhetorical effect.
Google Definitions
Here are three examples of how to incorporate Onomatopoeia into your work. The three are very different in how this technique is used. One, with blatant, visual Onomatopoetic words, the second…
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This is National Poetry Month, so yes, I have been very busy. Many of you know I lead a group both on Facebook and here on Medium of poets from all over the world. I have been working hard with them to get people excited about poetry for National Poetry Month.
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Love in poetry,
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