@creating

#tdc5194 #ds106 #dailycreate

A poem I wrote this morning for #VerseLove began with this line -- "A moment of frozen explosion" -- so I used each word in the text weave.

poem: https://flic.kr/p/2s5qQn4

#NationalPoetryMonth celebrates its 30th anniversary, inspiring extensive poetry reading writing. The author shares experiences, prompts, and insights, while encouraging engagement with fellow poets and exploration of personal creativity. #napowrimo #napowrimo26 #verselove #clmooc #poetry26

http://sheri42.net/2026/04/02/napowrimo-inside-love/

NaPoWriMo Inside, Love

National Poetry Month celebrates its 30th anniversary, inspiring extensive poetry writing. The author shares experiences, prompts, and insights, while encouraging engagement with fellow poets and e…

I wonder, if I draw a line...

Some poems
never find homes

they linger
in imagination's ether

Neither forgotten
nor written

only just remembered

#SmallPoems for #VerseLove

We are making 'strikeout' poems for #verselove, a cousin to blackout or found poems. But here, the words removed remain visible, creating a different effect for the reader. I'm not satisfied with mine, although my original poem works on its own.

#SmallPoems

A pencil-top
eraser removes
only the surface
of scribble,

leaving little
nibbles of
where words
were

a poem built
upon a poem
built upon a
poem

of an idea,
layered like
tectonic plates,
just before the
shift

Prompt for #VerseLove was to "sound off" on something annoying.

Someday I just might
take up her challenge
response to my complaint

to systematically
count every
single potato
chip in the bag

to calculate
the ratio of
empty air space
to product

to plot out
the reduction
of weight to
cost over time

She just laughs and tosses
the bag into the carriage,
as we head to the checkout line

#SmallPoems

A poem is ink
you sketch
upon yourself

Not tattoo,
but something
gone deep

Odds and ends
of the observable
world

Chosen memories
you yearn
to keep

#SmallPoems for #VerseLove

#SmallPoems for #Verselove

Writing The Night Sky (using constellations as inspiration)

I used Vela for my poem

https://write.as/dogtrax/vela

Vela

ur sisters of Heavenly Waters await your return for an eternity but solar winds fill your form, and you remain mystery Your children are seven, a brood of starl...

dogtrax

Your music,
humming:

the light breeze
rustling softly
through Autumn's
scattered leaves

the gargle of springtime
melt falling from distant
mountains at the
river's bend

the acorns dropping
on rocks – the titter-tat
of arrhythmic drumming
like stones on a mat

I'm humming now, too,
Mother Earth, as I sit here,
appreciating this song
of you

#SmallPoems for #EarthDay via #VerseLove

Quiet, like rice
in a jar, a wisp
of the Nine,
the tail dust
of a tumbling star,
the soft whisper
of a cloud,
cosmic particles
ordered, afar -
we arrive with
closed eyes,
never knowing
where we are

inspired by a Wisp Of Cloud Nine
https://www.theoppositeshop.com/product/wisp-of-cloud-nine/12?si=true

#SmallPoems for #VerseLove

Wisp Of Cloud Nine | The Opposite Shop

Uses: inspiration, dreaming, hope. Contents: skywriting "The neighborhood is not bad - it's peaceful and quiet like rice staying put in a jar" - Damaris. Each jar comes with a different selection of student writing. Collect them all!Airship Emporium owner and operator, Captain, had this to say about the Wisp of Cloud Nine, "Open this jar and feel automatically transported to the top of a thick cumulus cloud. Dangle your legs off the edge and ponder the writing tucked inside. Then be inspired to create your own piece of skywriting!"

The Opposite Shop

In a week, my empty suitcase and I returned

from 'My Life Was The Size Of My Life' by Jane Hirshfield
https://poets.org/poem/my-life-was-size-my-life

Lost, I thought,
lost in thought,
I thought I lost
it all but no, I hadn't -
my odds and ends
of a life had only been
misplaced, maybe
borrowed; something
to blame for something
I couldn't name –
not stuff merely stolen,
only, I thought: lost,
and later, found, but at
what cost?

Audio: https://sodaphonic.com/audio/9NVpaURhezj8LNJvWmF6

#SmallPoems for #VerseLove

My Life Was the Size of My Life

My life was the size of my life.

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