Category: Poetry

The prompt at VerseLove is to write a poem, interrupted.

Peace (and Pause),
Kevin

The prompt for VerseLove is all about country roads and I was reminded of a road that my wife and I traversed by car this week while on vacation in Puerto Rico.

Peace (getting there),
Kevin

The prompt for VerseLove was to consider spices.

Peace (and paprika),
Kevin

This comes via a prompt at VerseLove.

Peace (and sound),
Kevin

This morning’s prompt at VerseLove was to write a cascade poem, in which each line of the first stanza becomes the last line of the following stanzas. It was a bit challenging, but fun, too.

Peace (and poems),
Kevin

I wrote this memory poem about baseball for a baseball poetry festival. My poem did not get chosen so I decided to make it in this format.

Peace (and play),
Kevin

I took part in a poetry workshop yesterday as part of a literary festival in a nearby town. The theme of the workshop was “motion” and after we read and analyzed a poem — Wedding Vows by Wyatt Townley — we wrote our poems, using falling and motion as elements. For some reason, I remember back to being inside a piano, for a Prepared Piano piece, back in my undergraduate days.

Also this morning, I wrote this one for VerseLove — a poem about lists.

And then, in a response to my friend Algot (whose Sunday poems I always try to respond to with a haiku), I made this little one:

Peace (and poems),
Kevin

The prompt this morning at VerseLove had a certain suggested format that I used for a single stanza.

I also took the first ten days of poems and gathered them up into a video.

Peace (and poems),
Kevin

This morning, the prompt at VerseLove asked us to consider a poem of place.

Peace (and wonder),
Kevin

A poem prompt at VerseLove was to focus on Home. I went to childhood and the Mill River.

Peace (and flow),
Kevin