Raylene: Equate (Poetry Project, Week 7)

It’s Poetry Project Saturday! Here is Coloradoan Raylene P.’s poem for her word “equate.” I.. somehow made this poem kind of sexy, and I don’t know how that happened. Equate First, outside, inside, last- our breathing ragged, the subtraction complete. The signs are all there: we are divided, but nonplussed by the solution. We were […]

Writer’s Circle Week One: Principle

The writer’s circle has begun! And with it, a slew of writing (no, duh). The prompt this week was “Principle” So here’s my poem, you dig. Principle You do not touch You do not smile You do not taste You sit, you think. Illusions deluding, elusive, Alluding to the mismatched: You do not talk You […]

Poetry Project Saturday, Week 6: Poem 2

Logan O., Colorado’s Poem. Word: Awesome (This poem breaks from the usual structure, because the given word makes me so incredibly happy that I had to do something different. I find it… hilarious. I know Logan will appreciate it, too.) Tyrannosaurus Rex himself couldn’t stomp the greatness out of you, The great white shark finds […]

Poetry Project Saturday, Week 6: Poem 1

Kelly W., Colorado’s poem. Word: Seeking You are blind. Stuck standing still in the dark, your skin searches for an other. But you aren’t seeing– and you’re feeling in all the wrong places. Your knees are weak from lack of standing on your own. Your eyes are keen, if only you would open them. […]

Poetry Project, Week 3: Poem 1 (Elena’s, Rough Draft)

Elena S., Colorado: “There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt.” To go with the monster theme. This one is more personal, more real, and rougher than the others. Monsters aren’t real. They may haunt your dreams. They may be there still when you wake, but blink. You control them. The last was made […]

Wednesday Special: An Oldie but a Goodie, “Miserable”

I wrote this poem in either Fall of 1997 or Spring of 1998. I was seven years old and in third grade. As you can tell by the poem, Shel Silverstein was my favorite poet at the time. He is still one of my favorites (Also one of my favorite playwrights. His plays are incredibly […]

Poetry Project: Week 2 (Poem 1: Celine’s)

This is Celine’s poem: “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”–Moulin Rouge I am sick. Heart-broken coughs rattle my body and the cold burns everywhere. Sickly sweet, this sickness is the greatest pandemic. I am in love. And what a love! This thing is, it causes palpitations. […]

Wednesday Special #1: Poetry Project 1.5

Chloe Denice’s poem: Melancholy The Earth speaks in whispers. Her call is dead leaves, ponds icing over, a child leaving home. She cries: We are all together! You know my name, but you have forgotten it. Your love of Spring does not heal. Your love of comfort does not soothe. Your teeth bite, they ache, […]