A quick snippet to go with the 30/30 prompt “ambiguous sunrise.”
Window Gazing All this waiting asking wishing yearning is exhausting. Sometimes it’s as simple as believing it’s there even without a clear view.
PAD 2021 – Day 13
optimism
PAD 2020 – Day 10
Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt called for a hay(na)ku, which is a three-line stanza, where the first line has one word, the second line has two words, and the third line has three words. I decided to chain several together into a longer hay(na)ku sonnet, like the one that poet Vince Gotera invented during 2012’s NaPoWriMo.
planning the day – a hay(na)ku sonnet
wanting
to wake
with less worry
hunting
good news
like Easter eggs
finding
big numbers
in brief headlines
baking
sweet buns
is some distraction
hoping spirits rise
like this dough
PAD 2019 – Day 8
Today I mixed up prompts by accidentally reading the Poetic Asides call for a “lucky number” poem as simply a “luck” poem. I mashed in my local Stroll of Poets prompt for “a good day” poem, and this is what popped out.
A Good Day
A good day starts
by believing luck is on your side.
That fortune’s picked a favourite.
That you were born under a good sign.
That some resident of Heaven is smiling upon you.
A good day starts
the night before, when you spot the flash of light
blitzing through the dark. The shooting star
Ptolemy said, is an assurance that the Gods
are paying attention.
A good day starts
by spying a four-leaf clover, stroking a rabbit’s foot
rolling a seven, having a ladybug land on your shoulder.
By recognizing all these things as happy accidents
and still feeling worthy of your own happiness.
makes/me/so/digress 