Category: Poetry

Peace (and poem),
Kevin

This morning’s prompt at Open Write was to compose a Kenning poem. I made one for my music friend, Alan T.

Peace (playing it, loud),
Kevin

The prompt for today’s Open Write is a tanka poem, about a tradition, and I wrote about our annual visit to apple orchards.

Peace (among the trees),
Kevin

This poem comes from a prompt on the theme of “clean up” over at Open Write. I tried to “clean” up a rambling poem by finding another poem within it. I used a Blackout Poem generator to help me.

A few too many words,
wouldn’t you say,
sit inside the bins
of this rather long,
ramble-on mess
of words and lines
and bent rhymes
and something’s 
bound to be wrong
when you just keep on
writing, fighting the urge
to edit away, 
to parse away,
to cut away what needs 
to be cut, but you can’t even
trust your gut anymore,
because you know how it is
when you’re writing
your way out of a rut;
everything tumbles loose
like an avalanche, and
only later, when you force 
yourself to sift through, 
to rescue, if only by chance,
the thing you need the most;
the verse that sits 
inside the mess
of the poem

Peace (and poems),
Kevin

As a former newspaper journalist who still gets the physical newspaper delivered, this poem was difficult to write. But it is true that newspaper themselves have long been a dying breed (which is one reason I jumped ship to become an educator). This home is also memory to my childhood days of delivering newspapers, and how the ink of the day’s news would embed itself on my fingertips.

Peace (let’s keep those newspapers alive!),
Kevin

A text manipulation site I found sparked an idea for a circular poem.

Peace (around and around and around we go),
Kevin

Peace (and poems),
Kevin