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Day 12 National Poetry Month: Raven on a Gravestone

Today I bring you a chant poem from the prompt, Raven on a Gravestone. Enjoy. Raven on a Gravestone Your teardrops of infinite silenceplunged within the immutable voidas you stand there, facing mortalityas a raven caws on the gravestone Ethereal memories are dispirited remains,things displaced, an infinity of time erasedas you weep there, cursing mortalityas... Continue Reading →

Day 11 National Poetry Month: The Weight of Change

Today’s poem is a Reversed Etheree from the prompt, The Weight of Change. Enjoy. The Weight of Change Hear a hundred thousand voices screamingwith no one listening to their painWailing into the looming voidonly echoes answeringthe stress of rebellionSubtle frustration,protest pressuresubmergingbuildingchange

Day 10 National Poetry Month: Frozen Deprivation

Today I have a rondelet from the prompt, Frozen Deprivation. Enjoy. Frozen Deprivation Forgotten wordsfrosted scars, resonant self-worthForgotten wordsso scattered, like fragmented birdscaptured in an icy rebirthlocked beneath your destitute earthForgotten words

Day 9 National Poetry Month: Copper Patina

Another free verse poem today from the prompt, Copper Patina. Enjoy. Copper Patina Hammered edges of metal, smooth and wornartistic vision born in burnished sunshineaged by epoch time and turning weatheruntil the shine dulled to that familiar patina hue They’ll never know the brilliance of the originalThey’ll never know that polished russet sorrelthat blazing fire... Continue Reading →

Day 9 National Poetry Month: Hallowed Misconceptions

Today’s poem is a short pantoum, from the prompt, Hallowed Misconceptions. Enjoy. Hallowed Misconceptions We stand in defence of idealtraditional vindication of right,that illusion of class and genteel,that imaginary dragon to fight Traditional vindication of righttrailing the repressed in its wakeThat imaginary dragon to fight,our grand societal mistake Trailing the repressed in its wake,that illusion... Continue Reading →

Day 7 National Poetry Month: Tomorrow’s Lies

Here is today’s free verse poem, from the prompt, Tomorrow’s Lies. Enjoy. Tomorrow’s Lies Awakening that bright futurewith tomorrow’s liesA multitude of insincere smilesbeget worthless promises Desperate hopein their ambitionWhile the world burns Smothering that bright futurewith tomorrow’s liesA multitude of insincere smilesbeget worthless promises

Day 6 National Poetry Month: Rooted in Ghosts

Today’s poem is a Trimeric and is written from the prompt Rooted In Ghosts. Enjoy. Rooted in Ghosts Beneath the bombast and platitudescountless generational legacies gnaw,eating us alive in misconceived traumaWe are all rooted in our ghosts Countless generational legacies gnaw,invisible phantoms, continuously hauntingwith a thousand festering lies Eating us alive in misconceived traumauntil we... Continue Reading →

Day 5 National Poetry Month: Surrender to Reflection

Here is the poem for today, a villanelle from the prompt, Surrender to Reflection. Enjoy. Surrender to Reflection Glimpses in the fractured glassmercurial echo of that perfection need,mirroring your hollowed class Holding tight, that ring of brasswhile you open your veins to bleedGlimpses in the fractured glass A contract loss, stationary impasse,owing nothing, save self-centered... Continue Reading →

Day 4 National Poetry Month: Clockwork in Grey

Today’s poem is a chant from the prompt, Clockwork in Grey. Enjoy. Clockwork in Grey Minutia in patinaed metal,brass fittings fixed in silencea life run down its timeits clockwork in grey No more polish or treasured place,carefully wound with admirationA discarded, broken thing,its clockwork in grey Utility lost under eroded metalno longer prized or loved,its... Continue Reading →

Day 3 National Poetry Month: Sirens

Another day, another poem. Today’s prompt was Sirens, and I wrote a sedoka poem. Enjoy. Sirens Treacherous waters the irresistible lure the unwary won’t return a cursed existence our song of death serenade we only wish to survive