Hathi Room

Today’s prompt encouraged us to “write a poem about a specific place —  a particular house or store or school or office”. I decided to write a Haiku about the office since it’s been just about a month now since we started working from home (although it feels like a decade).   Dim fluorescent lamps Read more

I’m back for another shot at poetry month! Haven’t written much other than mediocre code in the past 4 years, but we’ll give this a try. Today’s prompt was to “write a self-portrait poem in which you make a specific action a metaphor for your life”. I  generalized a bit and nothing fancy since my writing Read more

Using my late pass on Day 11. The prompt was to write a poem about an object or a place and end it in a surprising or abstract/philosophical way.   Adjacent the curb,   A wood plank, machine carved to resemble the cousin of a surfboard Composed of airy yellow, imported bamboo strips Each strip Read more

I’ve been pretty swamped with school the last few days and I haven’t been on top of writing. I still want to write on each of the prompts, but they may be a bit out of order now as I try to catch up again. The following is Day 7’s prompt, a poem structured in Read more

Notes: Not sure if this constitutes as poetry, but I did what I could with what I had! I’m a little late finishing this one up, but the day 5 prompt was to write a poem either using the names of Heirloom plants or inspired by one.     The Bull (Nose Sweet Bell Pepper) Read more

Notes: NaPoWriMo Day 4. I’ve been tied up with homework lately so a bit tight on time; I free-versed it for this one, but kept it relatively short. The prompt for this poem was to write about the month which you believe is the cruelest. I wrote about the month of January and examined the Read more