Tag Archives: NaPoWriMo

Everything, Everything 

Posted on April 13, 2022 by whimsygizmo

Wild.  See? See how the sun edges up again and the dandelions claim sidewalk cracks as stages.  See the pages of the sky, churning clouds of dragon puff, enough to assure us everything  is wild. And well. Moon casts her spell at dusk, and we … Continue reading →

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Vermeer & Vermouth

Posted on April 4, 2019 by whimsygizmo

  We traipse the halls and wander the walls, …………………shaken, …………stirred by oil and blur.   .. In April, we poem. 

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Broken-Winged Aubade

Posted on November 5, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. See the raven, black against night’s last indigo blush, one lone smudged note waiting on a wire. The sinking moon’s an echoed ache of loss and longing; the sky’s a broken song.     .. November PAD, day 5.  … Continue reading →

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if i’d only listened to the hum of my own heart

Posted on November 3, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. , perhaps i might have stopped trying to name my song, before the middle strains were done. perhaps i might have wanted less, and wand -ered more, roamed the floors of my own hope. perhaps i might have stored … Continue reading →

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If I’d Only Remembered {Not} to Listen

Posted on November 3, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. The world’s got a funny way of saying I love you, a sunny way of flaying my skin wide open and ………….{still} asking me to shine. .. poetic asides november chapbook challenge, day 3. 

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Dragon

Posted on November 2, 2016 by whimsygizmo

  .. I am spangled in the sacred skin of wandered sky, the whisperthin wishes of distant stars. I have swallowed moon; mooched her borrowed glow. See my wings? These fallen, fragile things are once again learning how to be. … Continue reading →

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The Book of Wild {Flowers}

Posted on April 12, 2016 by whimsygizmo

Patrons of the magnolia, our hips are used in every maple-sugar camp, harbingers of good luck , bustling with hum; make hues of autumn by simple division. Serve as sun ………..-flowers. They have learned the arts of roguery, the long … Continue reading →

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Artichokes and Amaranth

Posted on April 5, 2016 by whimsygizmo

(Seed shopping on a Sunday)   .. There’s an entire alphabet here to be planted, a feast for our palates and our eyes and our ears: ginseng, cinnamon, cloves, currant, apricots, zucchini. We head home with brandywine, plums, glacier, stone. … Continue reading →

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Meet Jan

Posted on April 4, 2016 by whimsygizmo

… She’s December’s darker sister, un -spangled, decked only in broken resolutions and a disturbing con -stitution of boxes stacked side -by-tired-side and waiting. She’s too long and too dull and too disassembled and too far in debt to resemble … Continue reading →

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looking back(words)

Posted on April 30, 2015 by whimsygizmo

    . Writing a poem backward for the last day of NaPoWriMo.  

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