Poetry Blog
Day 24 of Na/GloPoWriMo is here ✍️🔥 Today’s prompt invited us to stretch language in multiple directions at once—layering metaphors onto a single image, shifting tone, pausing to define a word, and then circling back to where we began. It’s a challenge in control and …
Read More Three weeks into NaPoWriMo and today’s prompt hit close to home.
I wrote about my name—Richard—and all the versions of me that came with it: Ricky, Rick, Rich, Ritchie… even one born from a broken photocopy. Each one carries a memory, a voice, a different kind of closeness.
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Five petals open like a hand—
the iris speaks in silence,
a messenger of hope rooted in grief,
blooming between worlds.
Some poetry demans a stage, the actor’s exiting and reappearing to shed light upon the story, Once more with feeling as Buffy the Vampire would say. Today’s NaPoWriMo challenge pulled inspiration from dramatic, rhymed narrative poems like The Best Loved Poems of the American People, …
Read More A professor becomes the Captain—guiding, challenging, and awakening a voice that dares to rise, long after the classroom fades.
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The waves don’t ask forgiveness, don’t wait for your pain—
they just keep rolling, steady and wild again…
Today’s poem explores love not as a grand declaration, but as the gentle, persistent presence in our daily lives—unseen, unspoken, yet deeply felt. Inspired by K. Siva Reddy’s reflective style, it invites us to consider love’s quiet acts and the slow, beautiful unfolding that sustains us all.
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Today’s prompt invites us to bridge poetry and technology, where ancient themes meet modern textures: love as a read receipt, grief as an undeleted voicemail, memory as something stored but rarely revisited. Poetry has always strengthened with us, and today’s piece leans into that tension—where …
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For Day 10 of NaPoWriMo, I worked within the structure inspired by Geoffrey Brock’s poem “Goodbye,” using three short stanzas as a container for grief. The middle stanza centers on a repeated question—each answer shifting slightly, revealing different facets of loss, survival, and memory. I …
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