24 Poems ~ 24 Hours
I had a bunch of tech issues this morning so I wrote a bunch of connected haikus while waiting for the router to reset
WIFI, why must you
foresee me like this in the
time I needed you most?
Laptop, why is now
the moment you decide to
do all your updates?
Why is it that all
tech knows when you need it most
and just stop working?
I would just take a
nap but, holy shit, that would
just be a full sleep.
My life shattered began,
looking into the mirror.
Bits of glass in my fists,
reflection of all the false love you said you felt for me.
We called it love a lie.
Leaving you, is was not a loss I mourn any longer.
The life we planned will cost me less than a new mirror.
She found us within our pasts,
memories enveloping us like cloaks.
Our complicated yet precious web of love and experiences had created a tapestry in our hearts.
In the stillness of the evening, she arrived to fulfill a longing,
her eyes holding a story, seeing through our façade and secrets.
As the years had left their mark on our youth,
her gaze held the essence of who we had become
– the joy, sorrow and struggles that had shaped us.
Her presence was like a beacon of light,
guiding us through the memories, dark and bright.
In that timeless moment, we were blessed by her grace,
for she reminded us that the past is not lost,
it lives within us like a timeless yoke.
This is how she found us,
with the past draped about us like a cloak.
Text Prompt
Redacting is the act of censoring or obscuring part of a text. Sometimes it is done by the author themselves, and more often it is done by someone else.
I want you to write a poem and then during or after writing the poem choose at least one, or ideally five or more words to redact from the poem. How is the poem changed by this simple act? This is not the same as a “black out” or erasure poem”. The words you are using are your own, and well over 50% of them should be visible.
When writing on physical paper, you can do this easily with a marker, ideally a black sharpie. If you are writing your poem in a Word document, you can use the highlight feature and set the highlight color to black, this creates a black box over the word or words. Or you can just write the word redacted in place of the word you wanted to use.
Image Prompt
Photo by Jon Tyson
A world between worlds,
encapsulated in so many films & series
over the years.
But what does it mean to so many people?
Hope
pleasure
joy
community.
That’s how we measure the worth of anything,
by what the huddled masses have to say,
a place like no other.
A
perfect way
to begin the
day, I pray to
GOD ALMIGHTY I extend my
arms and open my hands and
submit to the Man upstairs. It’s the
perfect way to end the day I pray
to GOD AlMIGHTY.
You amaze me little boy
with all the things you do
like an architect you build castles and space ships
like a painter you dabble in abstract forms and colors
like a race car driver you never give up till you win.
You amaze me little boy
with your kindness extraordinaire
given without any reason
with your laughter that booms out
of your young mouth
with your persistence to do things right.
You amaze me little boy
mostly because you are you
and I, yes I want to be like you.
Woot woot getting some thoughts down!
Hour 5
Some days or maybe all days
I feel like an option
That everyone I love
Only sometimes asks for me
I’m like a side salad when they have fries
Or I’m peanuts on a sundae
They might add something
But many people wouldn’t think to add them
And maybe that’s the pessimistic in me
Or maybe I need to make sure
I find people who ask for me
One of my high school students wrote an essay
about her older, in college sister
extolling the virtues of her sibling role model
she proclaimed the ‘most important’
aspect of positive modeling was her sister’s
adherence to ethics that boosted her
‘self of steam’
Reading the phrase aloud to grasp her intent
I asked her to explain herself
describing her sister’s insistence on keeping
her positive vibe at all times
reiterating verbally, ‘it’s her SELF. OF. STEAM.”
thus it remained – forever foggy.
We mist something
– Mark L. Lucker
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It’s where our imaginations come to life & nothing
is out of the realm of possibility.
Whether hunting down criminals in a depraved
metropolis or seeking buried treasure in the
jungles of the galapagos,
there’s a little something for everybody.
It’s a blank canvas for artists to bring their visions to life
where anyone can get in on the action.
That’s why you love it.
You’re always on the lookout for the next scorcese or
fincher.
& when these craftsmen are able to bring their
masterpieces to the cinema,
there’s no better experience on the entire planet.