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Today’s prompt for day six is to write a poem where the first words of each line reproduce a phrase. My phrase was “It’s raining cats and dogs”. This one was inspired by a time we went to lunch at Vezzo and it started down-pouring hail. It’s a wild goose chase on Lex raining – Read more

Fell a bit behind, but it’s up! The day 5 prompt was to write about a mystical person or creature doing something unusual. I wrote about Zeus skateboarding. There’s a yee old Greek legendWhich tells a tale about our brother Zeus While he was tasked with conquering the cloudsHe summered in Santa Monica Where he Read more

Today’s prompt is to write a poem in the form of a poetry prompt. Draw your eyelids to a close Focus in on one sound in the distance Maybe a fan, or a car, or a siren Listen to the hum Now dispel all thoughts Let nothing but the hum remain And imagine an orange Read more

Today’s prompt is to write a glosa” – a poem that glosses, or explains, or in some way responds to another poem. I chose to write my glosa based off The Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The story begins at the crack of dawn, when the skipper was summoned. The message was Read more

Today’s prompt was to write something based off an obscure word from Haggard Hawks Twitter. I chose to write a poem inspired by “Horse-ma-gog” which means a large, coarse person who is annoyingly boisterous. Free versed it – Ruffled around the edgesWith so much a lick of pompousShe is the archetype of a horse-ma-gogNot quite Read more

Went off prompt for Day 1 of poetry month yesterday. It was one of my good friends birthday so needed content for the card. With your luscious curlsAnd booty the size of QueensSwing like Tiger WoodsFulfill your Latina dreamsHappy twenty-six, my lad Read more