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Poetry goals for April

- Freewrite as many days as I'm able. Craft a poem from the flow if it's there. Polish what I have if I have it. Revise until it's pure.

- Spend a few moments with the little things every day, especially out in nature. That's where the poems are.

Note: I'd like to limit comments on this thread, but comments are welcome on my wall.

Log

i. two freewrites; poetry jam
ii. several drafts; second poetry jam; wrote and revised "Black Feathers"
iii. few more drafts; some revisions; wrote and revised "I Found the Note You Left Me"
iv. more drafting; more revision; started posting This Is Where You'll Find Me
v. did a lot of freewrite
vi. ---
vii. revisions; some drafting in The Jam Station, third poetry jam
viii. NaPo Day 8 in a Coffeeshop, fourth jam; drafted more poems; more revision
ix. drafting
x. --
xi. drafting in Euphoria's jam pad, fifth poetry jam eeeee
xii. freewriting I think? Forgot to update
xiii. drafted, revised another poem
xiv. few more drafts
xv. ---
xvi. ---
xvii. ---
xviii. ---
xix. ---
xx. several drafts
xxi. few more drafts
xxii. more drafts
xxiii. revisions, organizing chapbook
xxiv. --
xxv. --
xxvi. --
xxvii. --
xxviii. --
xxix. revisions
xxx. final postings
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Fri Apr 02, 2021 7:57 pm
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Day 1


I did a couple poem-type freewrites today in The Virtual Cafe. I might revise one or both of them sometime this month and post them as finished poems.
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Day 2


Drafted several poems in The Bakery (second Poetry Jam of the month).

Drafted and revised "Black Feathers."
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Poem moved to be ordered in chapbook: Black Feathers
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Day 3

Drafted several more poems

Editing a few from yesterday

I'm working on a chapbook called This Is Where You'll Find Me using the poems from today and yesterday.
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Poem moved to be ordered in chapbook: I Found the Note You Left Me
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Day 4

Drafted a couple more poems

Worked on editing/revising a few

Today I'll start posting the poems of my chapbook, This Is Where You'll Find Me.
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This is what it means to wait:

to sit in silence with heads bowed;

to count down breaths
and not know how long breaths will turn the hands of time;

to speak little: I love you, and,
we'll be okay--
pieces of a thing hanging over us
and choking out all other words;

to want to hold your hand
and not being able to touch you;

to want to search your face
and not being able to see you--
but I have a picture
and I open it;

to brace like a runner at the blocks
crouched and waiting for the gun
for an eternity;

bracing
to keep a promise.
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I feel like I should have something to say
but I don't know what
but I don't want to sit here in the silence
just waiting for my end
with you
and not speaking.


It's alright
I don't know either
but I know and I don't want this either
this silence dragging on until
you're gone
and the silence is consuming me alone.


We find something to talk about
and it doesn't feel strange
like we only found something to find it.
It feels like
the white lily--
you the morning
and me the bloom
opening for you in the mud.

We find something to talk about
and for an hour, it doesn't feel as if
you're fading.
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Do you know how much you do for me?
........You're special to me too.

Why does it have to be like this?
........It does... But I'm okay.

I don't want you to go away...
........I'll miss you when I'm gone.

........I love you...
I promise I'll be okay.
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Have you ever seen a crow die
and been
overwhelmed
by the way the black flock swarms the trees around its body
crying out in those piercing notes of agony
that echo chaos on all sides
to mourn?
That is what your death was like...
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Tonight the sky is the inky black
of the feather ring behind a blue jay's eyes,
black
like the two gazing bowls of heaven.
I am a riverbed
for dripping starlight.
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