ajbostelman

I’m Amy in my late forties married 28 years with an 18 year old daughter. I live in the Texas Hill Country in a suburb outside of Austin. This is my fourth year to participate in the half poetry marathon. This will be the second year my writing partner will participate with me. I love the community, the challenge, the prompts—all of it! My styles include free verse, prose poetry, haiku, and found poetry aka black out poetry, remix, erasure poetry—random words from a cited source to create an original poem. I consider myself as satirical, playful, full of whimsy, and depth depending on what I’m writing. Both the classics and contemporary are among my favorite poets. Some of my favorite poets include in no particular order: Rumi, Tagore, Hasif, Mary Oliver, Whitman, Ross Gay, Alice Walker, Sylvia Plath, Shel Silverstein, Rilke, TS Eliot, Poe, Ginsberg, Ada Limon, Joy Harjo, Lucille Clifton, and the list can go on and on. I hope to maybe create a chap book. Or at least have fun nonetheless.

Hour 4 Fake

Fake

striving for authenticity

but feeling like a

mannequin

randomly found in the

middle of the woods

banging out a song with no audience

and with no legs to run away

Hour 3: Symphonic Sway

Symphonic Sway

Magenta flowers in symphonic sway

A symphony of visual Grace

Hour 2 “Missing the Pause”

Missing the Pause

…Miles to go before I sleep

the days merging

into fast forward

with very little Pause

Pause to be still

Pause for silence

Pause to breathe

Today I relish the chance of living in the

Pause—

For how many unknown miles to go before I sleep

Graced with an Awakening

to the Pause

The text for “miles to go before I sleep”

Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1923, © 1969 by Henry Holt and Company, Inc., renewed 1951, by Robert Frost. Reprinted with the permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC

Freudian Dreams

Underwater dreams with Freudian themes—
threatening survival;

Stolen from ancient texts on subconscious theory
Underwater dreams with Freudian themes—

Remnants from
the known occasional visitor—

Once again;
Mother themes—

reclining
on the therapy couch

to analyze and make sense
of the nonsensical;

Underwater dreams with Freudian themes.

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