Tag: GloPoWriMo2018

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/7/18)

    4/7/18: tea overcast morning that must-have herbal tea left forgotten #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #GloPoWriMo2018 #NaPoWriMo2018 7/30

  • Song of Boudica

      Why, Romans? You came to my home while my husband burned and declared yourselves my master. When I dared to disagree, you flogged me in my own courtyard and raped my daughters. Why?   I ask you, instead: why do you dare to ask?   tears that will not dry a murder of crows…

  • #Freestyle Friday (4/6/18): a little “Tai Chi Practice” courtesy of .@ImageCurve

    Tai Chi Practice     “White Crane Spreads its Wings” Sunlight rippling off the Ramapo River Deep breath in. During commencement, I raise soft, rounded arms. They ascend, roll and descend. Deep breath out. As I pivot and “roll the ball.” Empty, fill. Breathe in, breathe out. Brush knee left. Then the rest of the…

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/6/18)

    4/6/18: weave chickadee’s cry — weave through the hours before deadline #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #GloPoWriMo2018 #NaPoWriMo2018 6/30

  • My Daily #Haiku #2

    April Evening a long time since I’ve watched “The Long Kiss Goodnight”   #haikuchallenge (long) #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #glopowrimo2018 #NaPoWriMo2018

  • A Natural History of My Holy Places

    Photo by Matt Cannon on Unsplash   The enclosed portch of our basement apartment in a three-family house. A tricycle turned upside-down. The hum of its spinning wheels, opening me…    shimmering sunlight across a rippling lake   The wooded path opens to a green hill with memorial stones. A paved road passes a waterfall, its roar reminding…

  • #Throwdown Thursday (4/5/18): Losing Grandma…my latest #haibun on .@ImageCurve

    Losing Grandma     I don’t remember Grandma’s death. The only flash of memory is a snippet of conversation, and a flash of grief and concern on Mom’s face. My most clear memory of Grandma: she would squeeze my cheeks between her index and middle fingers and then twist. Simultaneously, her Calabrais face in mine,…

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/5/18)

    4/5/18: murmuration spring murmurations … first croaking of bull frogs after twilight #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #GloPoWriMo2018 #NaPoWriMo2018 5/30