Tag: GloPoWriMo2020

Poetry Day: Already Broken

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by the time we met

i was already broken

a thousand pieces

scattered round the world

like so much garbage

among the detritus

were some damn fine things

like

shreds of hope

bouquets of trust

boxes of wonder 

jars of light and joy

winds of change-

the same kind I’d already

weathered early on-

it pulled those pieces 

off the laundry line

where i was airing things out

planning to put them back in use

after cleaning off the

lies and betrayals

i’m on the hunt now

tracking down the things

that used to be mine

welding them back to my heart

and breathing life into them again.

again.

again.

by the time we met

i was already broken.

NaPoWriMo2020 Poem #30 of 30: Art Through Peter

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National Poetry Writing Month and Global Poetry Writing Month! I’m done. 30 poems in 30 days. I always enjoy this challenge because it makes me stop for a period of time each day to dig around in my word garden and see what I can pull out for a little snack or a full on meal. This last one is going to be a little Birthday shout out for a friend and artist up here at the top of the Leelanau Peninsula who constantly amazes all of us with what he creates in his “mad scientist” studio on beautiful Cathead Bay.  You can find Peter’s artwork at Studio 106 on Mill Street in Northport. So here you go Peter Davidson! Your very own Haiku poem. Happy Birthday my friend.

Poem # 30 of 30

Haiku

Art Through Peter

Found it on the beach

turned it into something else

art flows through Peter

Find out more about Peter’s artwork at: https://www.facebook.com/Studio-106-226452160763109/

NaPoWriMo2020 Poem #29 of 30: The Gates

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The Gates

I knew

the moment

I pushed through those gates

that the life I had

could never be again

there is no turning back

when you’ve burned your past

and you’re carrying

all your worldly goods

in the hollow

of your broken heart

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NaPoWriMo2020 Poem #28 of 30: Between

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an 11 word poem. # 28 of 30

Between

Between

no longer

and

not yet

lies

everything

you

could

be

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NaPoWriMi2020 Poem #27: Hummingbird

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Haiku

Hummingbird

Just a small moment

A thought flying through my head

And my life had changed

NaPoWriMo2020 Poem #25: Singing Down The Night

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Singing Down The Night

a thousand crickets

singing down the night

a song of summer coming

warm wind on its way

but for this April dusk

wrapped in blankets

huddled round the fire

dreaming of an August moon

rising through the tree line

shimmering on the bay

NaPoWriMo:Poem 1 of 30 – Hello/Goodbye

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Hello/Goodbye

If you had known

before you signed the book-

agreeing to this mortal life-

that you would know

first hand

first heart

what it would be

to rise up out of yourself in ecstacy-

to fold down into yourself in grief-

that you would hand your heart to someone

who would later, hand it back

scarred, with missing pieces-

the only evidence of an entwined life that would,

forever

define love for you…

If you had known

that those two-syllable words

would start your world

and stop it

in the seconds it would take to say them-

would you have said hello

knowing that goodbye was destined?