Category: Poetry

This is the second to last poem for the Advent Of Joy calendar by my friend, Deanna, that links each day to a mentor poem to inspire writing.

Peace (at the start of something),
Kevin

I am sharing two poems this morning — one from a prompt at Open Write for a Holiday-themed I Am From poem and the other from a line from a mentor poem at Advent Of Joy.

Peace (and words),
Kevin

She’s parsing pieces
of old magazine pages
into odd collage
(for my wife)

An eye for detail,
and cinematic focus;
he threads each story
(for my eldest son)

Switching to vinyl,
the Brooklyn club DJ spins
his grandfather’s jazz
(for my middle son)

Beats and loops and rhymes –
broken signatures of time –
he builds songs, slowly
(for my youngest son)

These poems were inspired by a prompt at Open Write this morning, using haiku.

Peace (and verse),
Kevin

These are three poems inspired by Deanna’s Advent Of Joy mentor poems.

Peace (and poem),
Kevin

I don’t know how my poem came from the Advent Of Joy mentor poem this morning, but there it is.

Peace (a cold breeze),
Kevin

Here are two poems from two days of the Advent of Joy poetry calendar prompts/inspiration poems.

Peace (listening in),
Kevin

I am not sure how the poem from this day’s Advent Of Joy calendar got me here, but I suppose that’s part of the magic of using poems to write poems.

Peace (and wonder),
Kevin

The art and act of writing is often a theme of my writing, so it doesn’t take much to get me started. This morning’s poem for Advent of Joy inspired this one.

Peace (and art),
Kevin

I am not sure how it happened but I skipped over a few days yesterday on the Advent of Joy calendar so now I am trying to get myself back on track. This poem was inspired by a poem about Bob Ross. I thought more about ink than paint for mine.

Peace (and ink),
Kevin

These two poems are inspired by Deanna’s Advent of Joy poetry calendar.

Peace (in poems),
Kevin