Cadi

You've given us lots of interesting narratives here, Mage! I particularly like i want to hold a sword - especially this bit: i want to grasp the hilt of a ...

#11 I've worn out this memory. The faded baize is threadbare, and when I set out the balls, and cue up my shot, they do not roll smoothly, but catch ...

Cadi's Contest Log NaPo Completion COMPLETED Poem A Day ALSO COMPLETED Apr 1 Apr 2 Apr 3 Apr 4 Apr 5 Apr 6 Apr 7 Apr 8 Apr 9 Apr ...

#10 Roses are red Violets are blue No matter the dream I keep seeing you

#9 "The good news is," he says, and that's when my grip on my worry starts to slip; the scrabbling starts beneath my ribs, above a stomach already crushed with ...

#8 It sure is rainy tonight! Yes, and I forgot my umbrella. Yes, and it was your favourite. Yes, a gift from my aunt. Your aunt who lives in Paris? ...

Thank you, @alliyah! #7 Shoes crunch on gravel Jeans brush on jeans Paws squelch in mud Collars jangle Magpies croak Children squeal And One ear keeps on ringing

#6 My windows are grey with a season's dirt, dried-up shadows of droplets on a cloudy pane: all that remains of those wind-driven winter rains that battered the glass for ...

#5 I was never very good at being a bird (at leaning forward on the branch, at falling, at trusting my wings to work when I spread them) and I'd ...

Thank you, @fraey! #4 Writing poems is harder when you're cross and I don't really want to be cross right now I'd just finished talking about how I feel good ...

#3 I spilt this, the dense, dark foam sinking down the sky, pooling on the horizon, a premature night. I stand here, knee-deep in thundercloud, drenched in haze, trying to ...

Ooh, I love poem #1! That whole "not really an adult" feeling, caught in such a good image.

#2 me: curled on a cushion and you: draped over me time seeps by, dripping off the clock, in ticks of gentle silence me: the cat who's keeping watch and, ...

#1 Monday nights underground warming up getting down Feel those light feet Saying hi shaking hands maybe you'd like to dance Pick up that beat Start as you mean to ...

What Cowboys Know About Love Louis McKee Last night on the sports channel I watched the rodeo. Those cowboys have it right; the best and the beauty of it. You ...