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NaPoWriMo Day 5 (back on track)

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(Re)spect

I was making a spectacle,

Dread detectable.

I had to step back,

Wipe my eyes and mind,

To see what I could find,

Align my spine—

Find out if I even have one left.

 

I found myself cyclical,

Continually cynical,

Questioning you,

And avoiding the reciprocal.

 

In retrospect, I must confess,

That while inspecting

the speck near you

I was ignoring the plank,

Driven like a stake,

Through my own vision.

 

I need time for introspection,

To review what is written,

Change my mission.

 

No need to defend

my position

because,

 

When I look back,

and look again

(Re)connecting—

(Re)specting—

I can see

That I need

To adjust my view

(And maybe my thinking),


Though I’ve no inkling

How to begin.

NaPoWriMo Day 4 (on the 5th day)

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With All Due Respect

Any aspect of respectable

That can be found feasible

From your spectrum,

Your perspective,

Can’t undo the reprehensible—

Even if it was not intentional.

 

Pardon me for being skeptical—

My questions unacceptable—

But I’m trying to find a way

To get back on the pedestal.

 

So, I’ll pay my respect,

But why does it have to be

So costly?

National Poetry Writing Month

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This was written on April 1, 2016

Ode to Kwame Alexander (aka Lemme ShakeYour Hand, Sir)

Oh, Kwame—

With your wonder words—

Laying lines of rhyme,

Preying on prepositions in their prime:

Outside the cage,

‘Round with rage

With, or without, wage,

Down

the

page.

 

Within the winsome,

Surrounding the sweetness,

Hanging with the hope.

 

Throw me a challenge.

Amuse me with your musing.

Confuse me until I see.

Wind me up with wondering.

 

Word to your words.

 

This Is Just to Say

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This is Just to Say

 

 

I have read

the book

that parodies

Wiliam Carlos Williams

 

 

and that

should probably

be returned

to the library

 

 

Forgive me

It is so hilarious

and it is staying

on my bookshelf.

 


			

	
	



				
					


	

		
When Reason Breaks (A Book Review in Poetry Form – Dickinson Style)


				

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When Reason BreaksWhen Reason Breaks by Cindy L. Rodriguez


A book of hope, within despair—


A suicide attempt—


Two girls — high school — the pain and angst


Neither one is exempt.


Their teacher — was a poet too—


A fan of Dickinson—


She knew a student was hurting


She thought she knew which one.


In English class they became friends.


It almost seemed like fate.


Can the girl who needs it, get some help


Before it is too late?

			

	
	



				
					


				
					


	

		
Poetry Month – Day 16


				

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (Acrostic)




Wallowing in the pain of


Awkward adolescence,


Learning to


Love others and to become


Free enough to


Love yourself,


Outcast, and casting out the


Wailing of an


Earlier you –


Redeemable with truth.

			

	
	



				
					


				
					


	

		
Poetry Month – Day 13


				

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For this new trilogy, I have written a Triolet…




 


Genius appliances and friends,


Treasures found in Tesla’s Attic,


Are they magic or mathematic?


Genius appliances, and friends,


Are drawn to the new kid Nick.


One who might know how it ends-


Genius appliances and friends-


Treasures found in Tesla’s attic.