Poem For Raina

Keep Writing, Raina

The prompt at Open Write this morning was to write an elegy for a female author of a banned book or a character in a banned book, and knowing how many of my students read Raina Telgemeir, her book — Drama — came to mind, as I know in some states, it is on the banned list for its depiction of LGBT issues with some secondary characters.

Read more about Drama’s ban.

Peace (and story),
Kevin

ProsePlay Playground

ProsePlay Poem

I stumbled on this little poetry tool that allows you to stack words that appear when you hover over the space. It was a previous year’s project shared via the HMTL Review and, along with the poem posted in the online magazine, there was a link to experiment. So tried my hand with it.

Read my poem

Peace (where words go),
Kevin

PS — I did another poem later, and then used the randomizer button to screencast it into a video.

Two Poems

For My Love

For International Women’s Day, the prompt for DS106 Daily Create was to be Acrostically Yours — create an acrostic poem for an important woman in you life. No one is more important to me than my wife.

And then “fiddlehead” was the word for the morning haiku.

Fiddlehead

Peace (in the hour now lost),
Kevin

Poetry: Geese Song

The haiku prompt this morning was ‘geese’ and while I thought of trying to make a play on the rock band, Geese, I suddenly remembered all the skyward honking before winter.

Peace (in a V),
Kevin

Poetry: Catkin Cluster

I had to look up this morning’s one word prompt for haiku. I had heard the word — Catkin — before, maybe in picture books, but I didn’t know what it meant. It was pretty interesting. Some mornings are like that with the haiku writing

Peace (on the wind),
Kevin