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Day 18, Poems 1 & 2 Form: Minute poems the uncertainty principle some people live through earthquakes for a minute – more, a day, a year. they live in fear ...

Day 17, Poem 1 Form: Rondeau who was that masked man? he hides behind his eyes, his layered face full of shapes and strangers whose skins displace his own in ...

Day 16, Poem 2 Form: Free Verse Inspired By: O Jerusalem by Laurie R. King, Im eshkachech Yerushalaim . exodus I bleed nightly on- to my pillow and dream of ...

Day 16, Poem 1 Form: Half Glosa a generation of epigrams This ignorance upon my tongue Was once the 'wisdom' of the young. * I sit on the porch, in ...

Day 15, Poem 1 Form: Free verse frog in my throat these days, whenever I speak there are things in me that want to climb out on little frog feet, ...

Day 14, Poem 2 Form: Interlocking Rubaiyat after dark our neighbourhood in the Sunday gloaming is a rustling koru of lights, combing through shadows, circling into the dark; we are ...

Day 14, Poem 1 Form: Uh. I made it up? Inspired by: This picture and a link I can no longer find *facepalm.* drawing water at dawn the well is ...

Day 13, Poem 1 Form: Domino Rhyme she never says a word she was a woman who had nothing to say; when she wrote, she kept everything neat and small. ...

Day 12, Poem 1 Form: Dorsimbra Markesha walks through walls Markesha is perched in a nest of stars and some days her feet never touch the ground. You swear when ...

Day 11, Poem 1 Form: Tritina losing faith this is another kind of cowardice: the truth as metaphor. you think of it as something solid you can keep, a thing ...

Day 10, Poem 1 Form: Shakespearean Sonnet on a new ship Learning affection is like learning knots: in the beginning, every shape's the same. The rope before me is a ...

Day 9, Poem 2 Form: Ballade Words of the Day: Not used Inspired by: Bolet's Chopin Ballade No. 4 Mrs. Papadakis plays Chopin she keeps his picture on the mantlepiece ...

Day 9, Poem 1 Form: Free verse Words of the Day: Not used Inspired by: Elizabeth Knox's description of heaven in The Vintner's Luck and Laurie R. King's "Describe your ...

Hey Navita, You asked me to pop in and check out your poems, and I'm glad I did. These are lovely. I absolutely adore Fireflies melting - that last stanza ...

Day 8, Poem 1 Form: Villanelle Words of the Day: Not used some thoughts on drawers I learnt it young: to keep my thoughts in a drawer, locked up like ...