It's just a list, really, an off the cuff exercise from a few days ago. Seemed like a good thing to share on a Thanksgiving Day. May there be too many beautiful things (read "moments") in your day to count... And I should say...this girl is the first of my list, always... (I …
Poetry Tuesday: “Love. What Is This Word?”
Got your coffee? A cup of tea? Here we go. So the conversation begins (see yesterday's post) with a sampling of my tetrameter (eight syllables per line, roughly) musings, a discipline I've continued each morning for over a year now. I've decided to ignore whether or not these writings can properly be called …
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A 100 Word Prompt: …the extreme weather meant…
From a prompt from Julia's Place. The prompt: ...the extreme weather meant... 100 words. Here we go. FOG AGAIN, HE SAYS, CURTAIN PARTING Fog again, he says, curtain parting, Fingertips nearly numb with night Still cold on them like blunt, iced hurt The extreme weather meant to leave, Meant to deposit on blued skin Left …
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Poetry Tuesday: We Need, We Men and Women, Wanting Much
WE NEED, WE MEN AND WOMEN, WANTING MUCH We need, we men and women, wanting much; A breakfast bun, a hand nearby, a breath, And quicker answers to the mad questions Buzzing our quiet times, distracting us. From nothing we came, but what does that tell us? What nothing is nothing, what kind of nothing …
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Poetry Tuesday: 100,000 Words
The most significant writing I did in 2012? Hard to say yet, but here’s one contender: over one hundred thousand words in lines of free verse tetrameter. 100,000 words in sessions of 15-20 minutes a day 5-6 times a week. Had no idea until I transferred all of it into Word files. Is it any …
JEFF BERRYMAN 