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April Poem-a-Day Challenge, Day 19
Prompt: Write a burn poem. Burn You remember the heat– the friction of arms and legs pressed together like two sticks intent on sparking, but the flame burned quickly and what’s left is just the memory...
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April Poem-a-Day Challenge, Day 20
Prompt: Write a beyond poem What a Dog Sees ~for Brody You. Not your persona or degrees, not the way you looked at 10 years old with your owl-shaped glasses and buck teeth unfashionably dressed in...
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April Poem-a-Day Challenge, Day 21
Prompt: Write a senryu (17-syllable poem about the human condition) Senryu X 3 After the breakup you realize the truth– you chose this misery Hope is a bucket with a hole in the bottom I carry around...
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April Poem-a-Day Challenge, Day 22
Prompt: Write a complex poem. Paranoia Is he looking at me? I cannot tell because he’s slow to meet my eye. I saw him in the hall and in the stairwell and think he’s been following me for some time. He...
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April Poem-a-Day Challenge, Day 23
Prompt (Two for Tuesday): Write a love/anti-love poem. The Muse I’ve been sitting at this desk, day after day, scratching out words in heavy black ink, waiting for her to help me bring life to the...
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April Poem-a-Day Challenge, Day 24
Prompt: Write an auto poem. Autoimmunity It starts with the little jabs I take at myself—always noticing in photos how the left ear juts out and is not folded back like right ear, or how my too-long...
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April Poem-a-Day-Challenge, Day 25
Prompt: Everyone <blank> Everyone is a Little Crazy Take for instance, the tiny old Black man dancing in the subway station. He’s too dapper to be desperate— dressed in a pinstripe suit and vest—...
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April Poem-a-Day Challenge, Day 26
Prompt: Write a casting poem Cast Copper brown bubbling molten poured into the shape of women who stew in silent pain others mistake as strength. I’ve been cast for the role of matriarch muse...
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April Poem-a-Day Challenge, Day 27
This poem was inspired by an exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. Prompt: Write a mechanical poem Mechanical Masterpiece “Practically unsinkable,” they said. Nearly perfect as...
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April Poem-a-Day Challenge, Day 28
Prompt: Write a shadorma (3/5/3/3/7/5) Voilà the small boy pounces on the mat and voilà he has made a wondrous discovery— automatic doors ~Pamela L. Taylor © 2013
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April Poem-a-Day Challenge, Day 29
Prompt: Take a line from one of your poems and make it the title of a new poem (from “I am the Sun” – Day 18) And Yet, You Can’t Turn Away You watch him move in slow circles on the floor, watch the...
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April Poem-a-Day Challenge, Day 30
I hope you’ve enjoyed these 30 days of poems! Prompt (Two for Tuesday): Write a finished/never finished poem Unfinished I am an open parenthesis, holding space for your run-on stories and secrets as...
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Poetry in Plain Sight
Winston-Salem Writers started a cool program this year where they put poetry on display in stores throughout the downtown area. My poem, “Something Missing,” was selected as one of four poems featured...
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Transit of Venus
Back in January I read my poem, “Transit of Venus,” as part of Poetry Scope, an event hosted by the NC Museum of Natural Sciences that featured science-related poems. I submitted this poem to the...
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November PAD Challenge, Day 10
Ladybugs in November They shelter indoors, break in through uncaulked cracks in windows, searching of a warm place for their last days. At first, these tiny prowlers crawl along crown molding or buzz...
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November PAD Challenge, Day 11
When Doubts Creep In You sit in that chair— a still life a life still— staring into the black of yourself. Are you stuck or have you stopped believing you can tilt the world on its axis with your...
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November PAD Challenge, Day 12
Goodbye, Voyager ~On November 12, 1980, the NASA space probe Voyager 1 made its closest approach to Saturn Even your name says you’re not quite the man I seek. You were meant to wander, push past the...
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November PAD Challenge, Day 13
Lessons in Virtue ~for Liana Today you learned courage as you slid down the 10th grade hall to geometry class and back to the principal’s office to retrieve your forgotten shoes, the cold plastic floor...
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November PAD Challenge, Day 14
The Secret of Saturn What is it about you that drives men mad building spacecraft to traverse the impossible space of this universe just to be close enough to read your wavelengths, to reach through...
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November PAD Challenge, Day 15
An Anagram on Vanity Displayed on a six by twelve metal plate Raised red letters scribe my name in block text— PAM—trailing the d, r and period. Perhaps it is A holdover from my Hollywood days, this...
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