Tag Archives: NaPoWriMo 2016

Rapunzel’s Hairdresser

Posted on April 21, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. Girl, I did not keep those golden tresses of yours deep conditioned for all these years so you could let some strange dude climb them. Show some self respect. Did I not also teach you how to swordfight, how … Continue reading →

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oh, poem.

Posted on April 20, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. oh, word jenga heart spill versonification of soul, gathered quiet stones on white river, rafting; paper holler black clacked nonsense clattered self inky scrawled sky raised phrase phase parenthetical pulp, s t u t t e r i n … Continue reading →

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Mermaid Survival Guide

Posted on April 19, 2016 by whimsygizmo

{How to live on dry land when what you really crave are gills.}   .. breathe words. hold bubbled syllables on on hungry tongue. swim sky. allow trees to spin their secrets, un -shelled in acorn, morning song. sing breeze. the … Continue reading →

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Just North of Dennison

Posted on April 18, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. My Grandma Ruth prit’neart raised 7 boys all by herself, in rural Ohio. Without a driver’s license. She washed the deeshes by hand each night, and ate fried feesh on Fridays. Grandpa walked the railroad tracks home every day, … Continue reading →

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when (apo)strophes curl their way into her dreams

Posted on April 17, 2016 by whimsygizmo

  .. midnight. the trochees and the dactyls are attacking again. truth is a tercet of song. she tells it slant, in staves of six, syn -tax notwithstanding. spondee sky is calling, falling in psalms of place, skeltonic clouds catching … Continue reading →

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WayBack Alman(i)ac

Posted on April 16, 2016 by whimsygizmo

… ’tis cloudy with a chance of drizzle, weeping willows waiting. our chi texture? swirls and curves, and custom eyes-ed sunrise song. just listen to the hum -ming birds, the snails. the mermaids of this vast wide sea. her childhood … Continue reading →

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Drab Bard

Posted on April 15, 2016 by whimsygizmo

{In words drown I: 22 lines that are evenly odd} (a Palindrome Poem)    .. We few (too hot to hoot): Never odd or even, are we not drawn onward to a new era? A Santa at Nasa, deified; bird … Continue reading →

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The Law of T(h)rees

Posted on April 14, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. These silent elms make paper trails of silver moon; my haunted heart makes haste of all these wasted things and more. Ask the acorn how she’s grown. Ask the silent elms to pilfer the silver moon’s glow, a tao … Continue reading →

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Cookie Prophecies for the Zombie Apocalypse

Posted on April 13, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. Confusion say: when it all cracks open, crum -bled beneath our feet, there is one thing that will ever be true: you don’t have to outrun the cannibal. You need only outrun the friend r   u  n  n  i … Continue reading →

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While the whole moves;and every part stands still:

Posted on April 11, 2016 by whimsygizmo

(The evening shade pulls over suburbia on a random Monday.)   .. There is chatter in the street, the hollow thwack thwack thwack rattle of a basketball game, the whoosh of a neighbor’s SUV. The mesquites are tucking themselves in … Continue reading →

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