April 25 to 30 Poems

April Poetry Madness 2021 Poetry from the Mad Cosmos

This is the fifth and perhaps final time I am doing the April poetry challenge.  The goal is to write at least one poem per day.  I am averaging about eight per day and posting four reserving four as “unpublished”. I am basing the poems on prompts from “Writing com Dew Drop Inn”, “Writers Digest”, “Poetry Superhighway” and “NaPoWrMo” prompt daily prompts and on “Pensively Prompt’ et all daily prompts.  I am combining prompts where possible.   I will post these here in batches every five days or so. Each poem will have an image that helped inspired the poem.  All postings will be podcasted a few days later on Spotify and elsewhere.  Each posting will be a separate posting, but the index will be cumulative. The final posting will have the complete list of all poems written whether posted or not.   Comments welcome but please keep it civil. Some of my poetry tends to be a bit “in your face” or “political” from a “leftwing perspective.” 
If it offends you in some way, please accept my apologies in advance.  That is never my intent. 

I am writing some other poems per day but not posting them as I need to reserve some “unpublished” poems. There will be a podcast version shortly on Spotify, Public Radio, and elsewhere. 

These are my poems from April 25 to April 30.

All of these poems are available on my blog at https://theworldaccordingtocosmos.com and on my podcast @ Spotify.

Index

Pre-April Writer’s Digest Warm-Up Poems
Posted
Let’s Resolve Writer’s Digest Prompt Resolutions
Let’s Resolve Writer’s Digest
There Are Many Moments Spirit of The Stairs Moments-Writer’s Digest Prompt, Writer’s Digest Things Unsaid
There Are Many Moments Spirit of The Stairs Moments-Writer’s Digest Prompt, Writer’s Digest Writer’s Digest
Old Man Reflects Upon Universal Truth, Writer’s Digest Prompt Truth
Old Man Reflects Upon Universal Truth, Writer’s Digest Prompt Meaning of Life
Old Man Reflects Upon Universal Truth, Writer’s Digest Prompt Old Age
Old Man Reflects Upon Universal Truth, Writer’s Digest Prompt Almost Died 22 Times Writer’s Digest Cheating Death
Almost Died 22 Times Writer’s Digest Death
Almost Died 22 Times Writer’s Digest Writer’s Digest
Every Day I Turn on My Computer Warming Up Writing Digest Computer
Every Day I Turn on My Computer Warming Up Writing Digest

Thursday, April 1, 2021

Posted

Coffee Pot Blues Poetry Superhighway Prompt Coffee
Coffee Pot Blues Poetry Superhighway
Who Is Jake Cosmos Aller? Writer’s digest
Who Is Jake Cosmos Aller? Writer’s Digest
Good Golly, Miss Molly Writing com Drew Drop Inn Rhyme
Good Golly, Miss Molly Writing com Drew Drop Inn
Sam Adams Woke Up Dead NaNoWriMo Poetry Grim Reaper
Sam Adams Woke Up Dead NaPoWriMo Poetry Death
Sam Adams Woke Up Dead   NaPoWrMo Death
Sam Adams Woke Up Dead   NaPoWrMo

Not Posted
Cat Thoughts – Pensively Cats
Cat Thoughts – Pensively
Gingerbread Men Terrorist Pensively Terrorist
Gingerbread Men Terrorist Pensively Squirrel Bomb Collection
Gingerbread Men Terrorist Dark
Gingerbread Men Food
Gingerbread Men Christmas
Demons Invade My Head, Pensively Demons
Demons Invade My Head, Pensively Dark
Demons Invade My Head, Pensively nightmares
Demons Invade my Head Pensively Wild Things
Angry, Fierce, Deranged, Unpalatable Demon Fridge
Angry, Fierce, Deranged, Unpalatable Demon
Angry, Fierce, Deranged, Unpalatable Wild Things Wild Things
Angry, Fierce, Deranged, Unpalatable Wild Things Fridge
3 Am Blues Nightmares
3 Am Blues Blues
3 Am Wild Things
3 am Madness
Marjorie Taylor Green on Vaccines as Mark of The Beast Found Poem
Marjorie Taylor Green on Vaccines as Mark of The Beast COVID
Marjorie Taylor Green on Vaccines as Mark of The Beast Corona
Marjorie Taylor Green on Vaccines as Mark of The Beast Politics
Marjorie Taylor Green on Vaccines as Mark of The Beast Marjorie Taylor Green
Marjorie Taylor Green on Vaccines as Mark of The Beast Right-wing
Orange County Shooting Fridge Poem Fridge
Orange country Shooting Fridge Guns

Friday, April 2, 2021

Posted

Stranded on Mars PSH SF
Stranded on Mars PSH Mars
Falling in Love with My Dream Woman, Roads Not Taken   NaPoWrMo Love at First Sight
Falling in Love with My Dream Woman, Roads Not Taken   NaPoWrMo Dream Girl
Falling in Love with My Dream Woman, Roads Not Taken   NaPoWrMo Robert Frost
Falling in Love with My Dream Woman, Roads Not Taken   NaPoWrMo
April 2—Voila! (Remember Something in A Short Lyric Burst) Drew Drop-In Writing Com Love at First Sight
The Future Is Here Writer’s Digest
The Future Is Here Writer’s Digest Time Travel
The Future Is Here Writer’s Digest

Not Posted

Avoid Bad Things Pensively Bad Things
Avoid Bad Things Pensively
The White Rabbit Beckons Sam Adams Pensively White Rabbit
The White Rabbit Beckons Sam Adams Pensively Wonderland
The White Rabbit Beckons Sam Adams Pensively Insanity
The White Rabbit Beckons Sam Adams Pensively Drugs
The White Rabbit Beckons Sam Adams Pensively Drinking
The White Rabbit Beckons Sam Adams Pensively Lewis Carroll
The White Rabbit Beckons Sam Adams Pensively Fan Boy
The White Rabbit Beckons Sam Adams Pensively Sam Adams
The White Rabbit Beckons Sam Adams Pensively
We Should Avoid Bad Things Pensively Bad Things
We Should Avoid Bad Things Pensively Haiku
We Should Avoid Bad Things Pensively       
Who Cares? Philosophy
Who Cares?  Politics
Who Cares?   The News

Saturday, April 3, 2021

Posted

Life as a Retired Expat in Korea PSH Expat
Life as a Retired Expat in Korea PSH Korea
Life as a Retired Expat in Korea PSH
Modern Connections Writer’s Digest Communication
Modern Connections Writers Digest
Surprise Haiku Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Haiku
Surprise Haiku Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Cats
Surprise Haiku Writing Com Dew Drop Inn
Personal Universe Deck Superman on Mars NaPoWrMo Cross-Post Writer’s Digest April 4th! Superman
Personal Universe Deck Superman on Mars NaPoWrMo Cross-Post Writer’s Digest April 4th! Mars
Personal Universe Deck Superman on Mars NaPoWrMo Cross-Post Writer’s Digest April 4th!  Writer Digest
Personal Universe Deck Superman on Mars NaPoWrMo Cross-Post Writer’s Digest April 4th!  NaPoWrMo
Cat People Cross-Post Weather Poem Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Cats
Cat People Cross-Post Weather Poem Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Weather
Cat People Cross-Post Weather Poem Writing Com Dew Drop Inn

Not Posted

Cats They Offer Pensively Cats
Cats They Offer Pensively
Tucked in Eating Dinner Pensively Food
Tucked in Eating Dinner Pensively Haiku
Tucked in Eating Dinner Pensively
Tucked in Eating Dinner
Georgia Voting Bill Fridge Voting Rights
Georgia Voting Bill Fridge Politics
Georgia Voting Bill Fridge
Cat Conference Cats
Cat Conference Sam Adams

Sunday, April 4, 2021

Posted

Mirror Poem Errors in My Life Pensively Homophone Set Homophone
Mirror Poem Errors in My Life Pensively Homophone Set Pensively
Mirror Poem Errors in My Life Pensively Homophone Set PSH
Little Houses on The Hill-Side Liminal Poem NaPoWrMo
Little Houses on The Hill-Side Communication NaPoWrMo
Little House on The Hill-Side Ekphrastic Poem NaPoWrMo
Little Houses on The Hill-Side NaPoWrMo

Not Posted
Is Life Fair? Pensively Meaning of Life
Is Life Fair? Pensively Haiku
Is Life Fair? Pensively
The Din of The News Pensively News
The Din of The News Pensively Haiku
The Din of The News Pensively

April 5

Posted

First Time I Saw Her Writer’s Digest Love at First Sight
The First Time I Saw Her Writer’s Digest Dream Girl
The First Time I Saw Her Writers Digest
Not Alone NaPoWrMo Fan Boy
Not Alone NaPoWrMo Edgar Allen Poe
Not Alone NaPoWrMo Love at First Sight
Not Alone NaPoWrMo Fate
Not Alone NaPoWrMo
Potential Mistake Writing Com Dew Drop Inn
Potential Mistake Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Mistake

Not Posted

Slogans for Chonnam’s Kombucha Food
Slogans for Chonnam’s Kombucha Kombucha
Future Adventure Looms Pensively Travel
 Future Adventure Looms Pensively Corona
Future Adventure Looms Pensively Tanka
Future Adventure Looms Pensively Short Forms
Future Adventure Looms Pensively
Sam Adams Had A Bad Day Pensively Demons
Sam Adams Had A Bad Day Pensively Sam Adams
Sam Adams Had A Bad Day Pensively Dark
 Sam Adams Had A Bad Day Pensively Nightmare
Sam Adams Had A Bad Day Pensively
Sam Adams Had A Bad Day
How Many Angels Can Dance on A Pin? Religion
Swanky Meddlesome Fridge Music
Swanky Meddlesome Fridge Earth Wind and Fire
Swanky Meddlesome Fridge
Bad Product Design Bad Product Design

April 6—

Posted

Only One Command in Life Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Command
Only One Command in Life Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Love
Only One Command in Life Writing Com Dew Drop
Writing Com Dew Drop Inn and PSH Mythical Animal - Conversation with Bigfoot Bigfoot
Writing Com Dew Drop Inn and PSH Mythical Animal - Conversation with Bigfoot
Writing Com Dew Drop Inn and PSH Mythical Animal - Conversation with Bigfoot Cross Post PSH
It is true I am a Madman!   NaPoWrMo madness
It is true I am a Madman!   NaPoWrMo Edgar Allen Poe
It is true I am a Madman!   NaPoWrMo Love
It is true I am a Madman!   NaPoWrMo
The One Thing I Would Never Change Writer’s Digest Change, Don’t Change Poem Prompt True Love
The One Thing I Would Never Change Writer’s Digest Change, Don’t Change Poem Prompt Change the One Thing I Would Never Change Writer’s Digest Change, Don’t Change Writers Digest
The Poetry of the Visa Line   Poetry Superhighway Prompt Consular
The Poetry of the Visa Line   Poetry Superhighway

Not Posted

Women contemplating post-Covid travel Pensively Travel

Women contemplating Post Covid travel Pensively Covid
Women contemplating Post Covid travel Pensively
Sam Adams Nightmare Pensively Drugs
Sam Adams Nightmare Pensively Fears
Sam Adams Nightmare Pensively Nightmares
Sam Adams Nightmare Pensively Sam Adams
Sam Adams Nightmares Pensively

April 7

Villains Whose Name Will Not Be Spoken Writer’s Digest Prompt Evil
Villains Whose Name Will Not Be Spoken Writer’s Digest Trump
Villains Whose Name Will Not Be Spoken Writer Digest
Shadorma NaPoWrMo Coffee
Shadorma NaPoWrMo Short Form
Shadorma NaPoWrMo
FIB NaPoWrMo Coffee
FIB NaPoWrMo Short Form 
The FIB Poem NaPoWrMo

Not Posted

Korean Restaurant Korea
Korean Restaurant Food
Ghosts Pensively Ghost
Ghosts Corona
Ghosts Guns
Ghosts Pensively
Taking in the Morning’s Crisp Springtime Breeze Pensively Springtime
Taking in the Morning’s Crisp Springtime Breeze Pensively Morning
Taking in the Morning’s Crisp Springtime Breeze Pensively
Bah, Warriors Off Fridge
Visions of the Future – Republican Led Christian States of America Political
Visions of the Future – Republican Led Christian States of America Christianity
Visions of the Future – Republican Led Christian States of America Political

April 8

Posted

A Poem Based on a Typo or Misreading Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Typo
A Poem Based on a Typo or Misreading Writing Com Dew Drop Inn
Real Meaning of Declaration of Independence PSH Acrostic
Real Meaning of Declaration of Independence PSH History
Real Meaning of Declaration of Independence PSH

Not Posted

Memories of the Past Haunt Me today Memories
Memories of the Past Haunt Me today Nightmares
Tri-Fall Early morning Sunshine Tri-Fall Poem Writing Com Sunrise
Tri-Fall Early morning Sunshine Tri-Fall Poem Writing com morning
Tri-Fall Early morning Sunshine Tri-Fall Poem Writing Com Poets Corner
Things Settled Down, Then…. Writing com prompt, prose poem
Things Settled Down, Then…. Writing com prompt, Zombie Flu
Things Settled Down, Then…. Writing com prompt, Zombie Apocalypse
Things Settled Down, Then…. Writing com prompt,
Their Love Began Pensively Love
Their Love Began Pensively
More Guns Diminished Hexaverse Writing Com Poetry Corner Short Form
More Guns Diminished Hexaverse Writing Com Poetry Corner
Combative Cantankerous   Fridge

April 9

Posted

Cosmos Woke Up A.I. Poem Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Bad Robot
Cosmos Woke Up A.I. Poem Writing Com Dew Drop Inn A.I
Cosmos Woke Up A.I. Poem Writing Com Dew Drop Inn God

Not Posted

The Adventures Began Pensively China
The Adventures Began Pensively Love
The Adventures Began Pensively
The Voyagers Were a Bit Absorbed Fridge

April 10

Posted

We are Living in SF World A Poem Inspired by New Information or Scientific Fact Writing Com Dew Drop in the Future
We are Living in SF World A Poem Inspired by New Information or Scientific Fact Writing Com Dew Drop Inn SF
We are Living in SF World A Poem Inspired by New Information or Scientific Fact Writing Com Dew Drop Inn
Life is a Dream of Chocolate Covered Trees Writer’s Digest Metaphor
Life is a Dream of Chocolate Covered Trees Writer’s Digest Life
Life is a Dream of Chocolate Covered Trees Writer’s Digest
Memories of JC Write About an Eccentric Character PSH madness
Memories of JC Write About an Eccentric Character PSH Memories
Memories of JC Write About an Eccentric Character PSH Sam Adams
Memories of JC Write About an Eccentric Character PSH
Mary’s Tales from the Grave NaPoWrMo Ghosts
Mary’s Tales from the Grave NaPoWrMo Mother
Mary’s Tales from the Grave NaPoWrMo
God’s to Do List NaPoWrMo God
God’s to Do List NaPoWrMo

Not Posted

Imprisoned for a Crime He Did Not Do Pensively Prison
Imprisoned for a Crime He Did Not Do Pensively Crime
Imprisoned for a Crime He Did Not Do Pensively
They Both Giggled All the Time Pensively Love
They Both Giggled All the Time Pensively
It Only Takes A Little Bit of Lace to Ruin A Marriage, Pensively Adultery
It Only Takes A Little Bit of Lace to Ruin A Marriage, Pensively Love
It Only Takes A Little Bit of Lace to Ruin A Marriage, Pensively Sam Adams
It Only Takes A Little Bit of Lace to Ruin A Marriage, Pensively
Raining Verbal words   Pensively words
Raining Verbal words   Pensively Haiku
Raining Verbal words   Pensively
Coffee Obsession Pensively Coffee
Coffee Obsession Pensively Obsession
Coffee Obsession Pensively
What is Love? Writing Com Poets Corner Lai
What is Love? Writing Com Poets Corner short form
What is Love? Writing Com Poet’s Corner Love
What is Love? Writing Com Poet’s Corner
Tucker Carlson Fridge Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson Fridge Right Wing
Tucker Carlson Fridge
                                                        April 11          

Posted

Get Your Shot Writer’s Digest COVID
Get Your Shot Writer’s Digest
I’d Rather Lazy Afternoon PSH love
I’d Rather Lazy Afternoon PSH
More Trouble Every Day, While Looking for My Car Keys NaPoWrMo Frank Zappa
More Trouble Every Day, While Looking for My Car Keys NaPoWrMo Music
More Trouble Every Day, While Looking for My Car Keys NaPoWrMo Current Events
More Trouble Every Day, While Looking for My Car Keys NaPoWrMo 
                                                              
Not Posted

There was a big Fuss Pensively
Freedom Looms Pensively
There are Signs All Around Us Pensively Revelations
There are Signs All Around Us Pensively End Times
There are Signs All Around Us Pensively
Mischievous, Romantic, Heterosexual, Fridge

April 12
Posted
Poem with Transgression in Form and Content Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Transgressions
Poem with Transgression in Form and Content Writing Com Dew Drop Inn
Every Morning Cherita PSH Cherita
Every Morning Cherita PSH Short Form
Every Morning Cherita PSH
Prime Number Love Writer’s Digest Prime Number Poem
Prime Number Love Writer’s Digest Prime Number Love
Prime Number Love Writers Digest
Letters to Frank Zappa NaPoWrMo Frank Zappa
Letters to Frank Zappa NaPoWrMo Music
Letters to Frank Zappa NaPoWrMo letters
Letters to Frank Zappa NaPoWrMo

Not Posted
Just Another Black Dude Pulled Over Driving While Black BLM
The Earth Abides Much Pensively Earth
The Earth Abides Much Pensively Earth Day
The Earth Abides Much Pensively
BHS Rocks on Berkeley
BHS Rocks on Music
BHS Rocks on High School
The Dude Abides for Now New Religion
The Dude Abides for Now Dude

April 13

Posted

Coffee Obsession Pensively, —Excess or Obsession Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Coffee
Coffee Obsession Pensively, —Excess or Obsession Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Obsession
Coffee Obsession Pensively, —Excess or Obsession Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Obsession

Not Posted

Spaceship Buried in The Snow, Deep in The Mountains Writing Com SF
Spaceship Buried in The Snow, Deep in The Mountains Writing Com
Snobby, Frantic, Sorority Sister Fridge

April 14

Posted

Great Dismal Dark Play Writer’s Digest Sestina
Great Dismal Dark Play Writer’s Digest Short Forms
Great Dismal Dark Play Writer’s Digest
Superman on His Morning Patrol PSH Comic Book
Superman on His Morning Patrol PSH Superman
Superman on His Morning Patrol PSH 
Tower of Babel Past and Future NaPoWrMo Time Travel
Tower of Babel Past and Future NaPoWrMo Babel
Tower of Babel Past and Future NaPoWrMo Bible
Tower of Babel Past and Future NaPoWrMo

Not Posted

Just Another Day in the Land of the Free Guns
Just Another Day in the Land of the Free Politics

April 15

Posted

The Robots are Coming Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Robots
The Robots are Coming Writing Com Dew Drop Inn SF
The Robots are Coming Writing Com Dew Drop Inn
The Mountains of My Love Describe Yourself as Landscape Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Love
The Mountains of My Love Describe Yourself as Landscape Writing Com Dew Drop Inn

Not Posted

Fake Things All Around Me Fake Things
Three Tea Haiku for Teaku Competition Haiku
April Madness 2021 April
April Madness 2021 Madness
April Madness 2021 Politics
Welcome to My World, Pilgrim Writing Com Dark
Welcome to My World, Pilgrim Writing Com Grim Reaper
Welcome to My World, Pilgrim Writing Com
Well, Hey, Big J and J Vaccine Fridge

April 16

Posted

The Wit and Wisdom of Mary Geneva Aldridge Aller -"There's Method in Her Madness" dedicated to my mother who passed on July 31, 2005.
Write an Elegy Poem Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Prompt   Elegy
The Wit and Wisdom of Mary Geneva Aldridge Aller -"There's Method in Her Madness" dedicated to my mother who passed on July 31, 2005.
Write an Elegy Poem Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Prompt Berkeley
The Wit and Wisdom of Mary Geneva Aldridge Aller -"There's Method in Her Madness" dedicated to my mother who passed on July 31, 2005.
Write an Elegy Poem Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Prompt Berkeley
Lucky/Lucky Poem Writer’s Digest Lucky
Lucky/Lucky Poem Writer’s Digest Unlucky
Lucky/Lucky Poem Writer’s Digest Love
Lucky/Lucky Poem Writer’s Digest Gambling
Lucky/Lucky Poem Writer’s Digest
Headlines I’d Love to See NaPoWrMo News
Headlines I’d Love to See NaPoWrMo
Narnia Beckons PSH Prompt Narnia
Narnia Beckons PSH
My Home Office Writer’s Digest Home
My Home Office Writer’s Digest
Cosmos Aller NaPoWrMo Bio
Cosmos Aller NaPoWrMo

Not Posted

Impromptu Pensively Speech
Impromptu Pensively
Sam Adams Grew Up Poor Pensively Sam Adams
[ja1] Sam Adams Grew Up Poor Pensively
Ecstatic Feelings Pensively Ecstasy
Ecstatic Feelings Pensively
Appealing Award Pensively Haiku
Appealing Award Pensively
Transporting the Stone Pensively Haiku
Transporting the Stone Pensively
Transporting the Stone
Dignified, Walking by the Sea
Traveling Down the Road
Sam Adams Three Wishes Pensively Genie
Sam Adams Three Wishes Pensively Sam Adams
Sam Adams Three Wishes Pensively

April 17

Posted

Caregiving In this Day and Age Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Corona
Caregiving In this Day and Age Writing Com Dew Drop Inn
Dinosaur Story Writer’s Digest Dinosaur
Dinosaur Story Writer’s Digest
Coffee Cup Dreams PSH Coffee
Coffee Cup Dreams PSH

Coffee Inheritance NaPoWrMo Coffee
Coffee Inheritance NaPoWrMo Parents
Coffee Inheritance NaPoWrMo Inheritance
Coffee Inheritance NaPoWrMo
Not Posted

Teacup Dictionary Poem Writing Com Fantastic
Teacup Dictionary Poem Writing Com Words
Teacup Dictionary Poem Writing com
Foxy, Girlish, Fridge
Huffing and Puffing Pensively Haiku
Huffing and Puffing Pensively
Words Fail Me Pensively BLM
Words Fail Me Pensively George Floyd
Words Fail Me Pensively
My Transport Awaits Pensively Prompt Haiku
My Transport Awaits Pensively
Swank, Individualized Fridge
Broken Down Souls Pensively Homeless
Broken Down Souls Pensively Haiku
Broken Down Souls Pensively Haiku
We All Abide, Pensively News
We All Abide, Pensively
FedEx Shooting Indianapolis Fridge Gun
FedEx Shooting Indianapolis Fridge
Morning Rituals PSH Morning
Morning Rituals PSH Coffee
Morning Rituals PSH Love
Morning Rituals PSH
Ode to Berkeley City Poem Writer’s Digest Berkeley
Ode to Berkeley City Poem Writers Digest Ode
Ode to Berkeley City Poem Writers
Met My Fate That Date Skeltonic Poem NaPoWrMo Prompt Skelton
Met My Fate That Date Skeltonic Poem NaPoWrMo Prompt Short forms
Met My Fate That Date Skeltonic Poem NaPoWrMo

Not Posted

Mash Pensively Food
Mash Pensively Food
We Talk All Day Same but Different Pensively Words
We Talk All Day Same but Different Pensively
Our Wealth is Our Health Pensively Wealth
Our Wealth is Our Health Pensively Health
Our Wealth is Our Health Pensively Haiku
Our Wealth is Our Health Pensively
Unprecedented FedEx Shooting Indianapolis Fridge

April 19

Posted

Tree of Life Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Eden
Tree of Life Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Satan
Tree of Life Writing Com Dew Drop Inn
There is No Such Place Writing Com Do Drop-in Narnia
There is No Such Place Writing Com Do Drop-in
Waiting for the End Writer’s Digest Waiting
Waiting for the End Writer’s Digest
Life-Changing Dream PSH Dream Girl
Life-Changing Dream PSH Love at First Sight
Life-Changing Dream PSH My Prompt
Life-Changing Dream PSH
Three Howling at the Moon Poems NaPoWrMo Lunatic Poem
Three Howling at the Moon Poems NaPoWrMo
Three Howling at the Moon Poems NaPoWrMo Moon
Three Howling at the Moon Poems NaPoWrMo
Ann Coulter is a disgusting depraved Piece of work - a found poem
Dealbreakers Pensively Prompt Relationships
Dealbreakers Pensively
Uncanny 39 Words Poem Pensively Prompt words
Uncanny 39 Words Poem Pensively Guns
Uncanny 39 Words Poem Pensively News
Uncanny 39 words poem
Power Goes Out Pensively Prompt Power
Power Goes Out Pensively Corona
Power Goes Out Pensively
April 20

Posted

Sounds Writing Com Do Dew Drop Inn Sounds
Sounds Writing Com Do Drop Inn
Writer’s Digest When Sam Adams Met God, An Ekphrastic Challenge God
Writer’s Digest When Sam Adams Met God, An Ekphrastic Challenge Sam Adams
Writer’s Digest When Sam Adams Met God, An Ekphrastic Challenge Ekphrastic
Writer’s Digest When Sam Adams Met God, An Ekphrastic Challenge Writer’s Digest
Eating Live Octopus in Korea in 1979 A Menu Poem PSH Food
Eating Live Octopus in Korea in 1979 A Menu Poem PSH Korea
Dream Sense NaPoWrMo Dreams
Dream Sense NaPoWrMo

Not Posted

As I Kiss Her All Over Pensively Prompt Erotic
As I Kiss Her All Over Pensively Prompt Love
Sit on Furniture Pensively Haiku
Sit on Furniture Pensively Haiku
Snarling Cup of Coffee Writing com Poetry Corner Coffee
Snarling Cup of Coffee Writing com Poetry Corner

April 21

Posted

Writing Com Do Drop Inn 65 Years —acting your age (or not!) old age
Writing Com Do Drop Inn 65 Years —acting your age (or not!) Writing Com Do Drop Inn
If the Moon Could Tap Dance PSH Lunatic
If the Moon Could Tap Dance PSH Moon
If the Moon Could Tap Dance PSH
Anti-vapers, anti-masks and other covid Idiots Poetic Rants NaPoWrMo Corona
Anti-vapers, anti-masks and other covid Idiots Poetic Rants NaPoWrMo
Cats are Aliens -Writer’s Digest Animal Poem Animals
Cats are Aliens -Writer’s Digest Animal Poem Cats
Cats are Aliens -Writers Digest

Not Posted

Canned Foods Delights Pensively Food
Canned Foods Delights Pensively Spam
Canned Foods Delights Pensively
Sometimes I left it Pensively Poetry
Sometimes I left it Pensively Haiku
 Sometimes I left it
Dinner for Two at Country Inn Pensively Love
Dinner for Two at Country Inn Pensively
Dinner for Two at Country Inn Sam Adams
Dinner for Two at Country Inn

April 22

Posted

A Million Ways to Say I Love You Writer’s Digest Love
A Million Ways to Say I Love You Writers Digest

An Angel in My View the Backflip Poetry Prompt: Imagination’s Reversal Strategy PSH Reversal
An Angel in My View the Backflip Poetry Prompt: Imagination’s Reversal Strategy PSH Love
An Angel in My View the Backflip Poetry Prompt: Imagination’s Reversal Strategy PSH Edgar Allen Poe
An Angel in My View the Backflip Poetry Prompt: Imagination’s Reversal Strategy PSH
On That Date NaPoWrMo Sijo 1
On That Date NaPoWrMo Short Forms
On That Date NaPoWrMo

Not Posted

Justice at Last – Take That Ann Coulter
Life as an Ant SF
Life as an Ant Ants

April 23

Posted

A poem based on a question Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Love
A poem based on a question Writing Com Dew Drop Inn
Uncle Sam Wants You PSH Political
Uncle Sam Wants You PSH Ekphrastic
Uncle Sam Wants You PSH Military
Uncle Sam Wants You
Make Love to Me as We Used to Writer’s Digest Love
Make Love to Me as We Used to Writer’s Digest Erotic
Make Love to Me as We Used to Writer’s Digest Music
Make Love to Me as We Used to Writers Digest
My Life Began NaPoWrMo Love
My Life Began NaPoWrMo Love at First Sight
My Life Began NaPoWrMo Fate
My Life Began NaPoWrMo
Not Posted

Two Lovers Walking in the Evening Light Writing Com – Other Prompt, Revised Stormy Lady Prompt Love
Two Lovers Walking in the Evening Light Writing Com – Other Prompt, Revised Stormy Lady Prompt Evening
Two Lovers Walking in the Evening Light Writing Com – Other Prompt, Revised Stormy Lady Prompt Rain
Eagle Soaring Above Her Secret Nest, Revised Stormy Lady Prompt, Writing Com Eagle
Eagle Soaring Above Her Secret Nest, Revised Stormy Lady Prompt, Writing Com 
A Kind of Madness Pensively Haiku
A Kind of Madness Pensively Simple Life
A Kind of Madness Pensively
It was Different Pensively Love
It was Different Pensively Fate
It was Different Pensively
Blue Lights, Pink Lights Light Up the Night Sky Pensively Night Moods
Blue Lights, Pink Lights Light Up the Night Sky Pensively
A Young Blond Woman Pensively Love 
A Young Blond Woman
April 24

Posted

I Met My Fate That Date Free will (or not?!) Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Fate
I Met My Fate That Date Free will (or not?!) Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Dream Girl
I Met My Fate That Date Free will (or not?!) Writing Com Dew Drop
When I Was A Young Man, She Came to Me When I Was A Young Man, She Came to Me Shakespearean Sonnet About Shakespearean Sonnet PSH Shakespeare
When I Was A Young Man, She Came to Me Shakespearean Sonnet About Shakespearean Sonnet PSH Formal
When I Was A Young Man, She Came to Me Shakespearean Sonnet About Shakespearean Sonnet PSH Love
When I Was A Young Man, She Came to Me Shakespearean Sonnet About Shakespearean Sonnet
Ode to Kimchi NaPoWrMo Ode
Ode to Kimchi NaPoWrMo Kimchi
Ode to Kimchi NaPoWrMo Korean Food
Ode to Kimchi NaPoWrMo
Not Posted

The Grim Reaper Gathers His Posse Writing Com Dark Dreamscapes Grim Reaper
The Grim Reaper Gathers His Posse Writing Com Dark Dreamscapes Hell
The Grim Reaper Gathers His Posse Writing Com Dark Dreamscapes Halloween
The Grim Reaper Gathers His Posse Writing Com Dark Dreamscapes Dark

Visiting Mother’s Grave Pensively Ghosts
Visiting Mother’s Grave Pensively Graveyard
Visiting Mother’s Grave Pensively
Visiting Father’s Grave Pensively Ghosts
Visiting Father’s Grave Pensively Graveyard
Visiting Father’s Grave Pensively
A Serene morning Pensively Morning
A Serene morning Pensively Haiku
A Serene morning Pensively Short Forms
A Serene morning Pensively
Late for a Date Pensively Fate
Late for a Date Pensively Love
Late for a Date Pensively Sam Adams
Late for a Date Pensively
Philosophical Musings Black Out Poem with Commentary
Tucker Carlson Says that Dereck Chauvin Verdict Seals Devil’s Bargain Between America and BLM
Tucker Carlson Says that Dereck Chauvin Verdict Seals Devil’s Bargain Between America and BLM Blackout /erasure Poem
Frank’s Launch Flames Out Black Out Poem

April 25

Posted

Romeo And Juliet Fantasy Love Poem based on a play (It’s Shakespeare’s birthday, but any play!) Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Love
Romeo And Juliet Fantasy Love Poem based on a play (It’s Shakespeare’s birthday, but any play!) Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Shakespeare
Appointment with the Grim Reaper Appointment Poem Writer’s Digest Grim Reaper
Appointment with the Grim Reaper Appointment Poem Writer’s Digest
Blue Blues PSH the Blues
Blue Blues PSH
Not Alone – response to Alone by Edgar Allen Poe
  NaPoWrMo Loneliness
Not Alone – response to Alone by Edgar Allen Poe
  NaPoWrMo Edgar Allen Poe
Not Alone – response to Alone by Edgar Allen Poe
  NaPoWrMo Love
Not Alone – response to Alone by Edgar Allen Poe
  NaPoWrMo Fan Boy
Not Alone – response to Alone by Edgar Allen Poe
  NaPoWrMo

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Coffee Ziggurat Writer’s Digest Poets Corner Coffee
Coffee Ziggurat Writer’s Digest Poets Corner Short Form
Coffee Ziggurat Writer’s Digest Poets Corner
Affordable Travel Pensively Travel
Affordable Travel Pensively
Left Options on the Table Pensively Options
Left Options on the Table Pensively
The Rat Ran and He Chased Pensively Rat
The Rat Ran and He Chased Pensively Sam Adams
The Rat Ran and He Chased Pensively Drinking
The Rat Ran and He Chased Pensively Hell
The Rat Ran and He Chased Pensively
Wild Animals in Korea Animal
Wild Animals in Korea Korea
Beware of Fire Season Writer’s Digest Poets Corner Wildfire
Beware of Fire Season Writer’s Digest Poets Corner California
Rainy Days Just God’s Tears Writer’s Digest Poets Corner Rain
Rainy Days Just God’s Tears Writer’s Digest Poets Corner God

April 26

Posted

Watching Movies with Subtitles Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Movies
Watching Movies with Subtitles Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Sub-titles
Watching Movies with Subtitles Writing Com Dew Drop Inn
Wild Animals in Korea NaPoWrMo Animal
Wild Animals in Korea NaPoWrMo Korea
If China had Discovered Europe Writing Com Dew Drop Inn China
If China had Discovered Europe Writing Com Dew Drop Inn History

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Restless 19 words Pensively
Spies snoop Opp – Loop Rhyme Pensively Rhyme
Spies snoop Opp – Loop Rhyme Pensively
Gone in The Moment Pensively Death
Gone in The Moment Pensively Haiku
Gone in The Moment Pensively Short Forms
Gone in The Moment Pensively Death
Gone in The Moment Pensively Haiku
Gone in The Moment Pensively Short Forms
Gone in The Moment Pensively
Serene Thoughts in The Air Pensively Serenity Haiku
Serene Thoughts in The Air Pensively Serenity Short Form
Serene Thoughts in The Air Pensively Serenity Serenity
Serene Thoughts in The Air Pensively
American Dreams Consular

April 27

Posted

Morning Thoughts Writer’s Digest Morning
Morning Thoughts Writer’s Digest Thoughts
Morning Thoughts Writer’s Digest Love
Morning Thoughts Writers Digest
To Those Who Have Gone on PSH Memories
To Those Who Have Gone on PSH Ghosts
To Those Who Have Gone on PSH
Occasional Poem Advice to Those Getting Married NaPoWrMo Marriage
Occasional Poem Advice to Those Getting Married NaPoWrMo
The Night of the Affair with A Shape-Shifting Alien PSH SF
The Night of the Affair with A Shape-Shifting Alien Aliens, PSH
The Night of the Affair with A Shape-Shifting Alien Lust, PSH
The Night of the Affair with A Shape-Shifting Alien, Mediums
Itty Bitty Bio Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Bio
Parody of Alone Writers Digest Edgar Allen Poe
Parody of Alone Writers Digest Love
Cosmos’s World Writer Digest Bio

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Reasons for Admission Pensively College
Reasons for Admission Pensively
Around the World, Pensively, Travel
Around the World, Pensively Haiku
Around the World, Pensively Short Forms
Around the World, Pensively
Writing Com, A Culinary Disaster?  Memories
Writing Com, A Culinary Disaster? Food
Writing Com, A Culinary Disaster? Korea
Writing Com, A Culinary Disaster? Writing com
Lonely Farm Pensively End of the World
Lonely Farm Pensively
Italian Ancestry Based on internet musings by William Walton
The Kindness of Her Love Pensively Love
 The Kindness of Her Love Pensively Haiku
 The Kindness of Her Love Pensively

April 28
Posted
Write a belief poem and/or...Write a don't believe poem. Writer’s Digest Why I Don’t Believe in Christianity   Religion
 Write a belief poem and/or...Write a don't believe poem. Writer’s Digest Why I Don’t Believe in Christianity Christianity
Write a believe poem and/or...Write a don't believe poem. Writer’s Digest Why I Don’t Believe in Christianity Right-wing
Rafting at The End of The World PSH End of The World         
Rafting at The End of The World PSH Dreams
Rafting at The End of The World PHS
Wytai Blues - Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows NaPoWrMo Prompt Wytal
Wytai Blues - Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows NaPoWrMo Prompt Guns
Wytai Blues - Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows NaPoWrMo Corona
Florida School Fires Vaccinated Teachers NaPoWrMo Florida

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Writing Com First Trip to Korea
Political Rants
Giving Way to Passion Pensively Haiku
Giving Way to Passion Pensively
JC’s Descent into Madness Define Insanity Pensively Insanity
JC’s Descent into Madness Define Insanity Pensively Memories
JC’s Descent into Madness Define Insanity Pensively Drugs
JC’s Descent into Madness Define Insanity Pensively ACID
JC’s Descent into Madness Define Insanity Pensively God
JC’s Descent into Madness Define Insanity Pensively Sam Adams

Bad Teeth Poem Bad Teeth Bad Body Poems
Bad Ears Poem Bad Body Poems
My Father’s Bad Ear and Eyes Body Parts
My Father’s Bad Ear and Eyes Bad Ear and Eyes
 My Father’s Bad Ear and Eyes Father
Bad Eyes Poem Body Parts
Bad Eyes Poem Bad Eyes
Bad Hair Body Parts
Bad Hair Bad Hair
Bad Nose Poem Body Parts
Bad Nose Poem Nose
Bad Feet Body Part
Bad Feet Feet
Angela Superpowers Poem
The Lonely Lighthouse Stands Guard Over Empty World Lighthouse Photo Pensively End of the world
The Lonely Lighthouse Stands Guard Over Empty World Lighthouse Photo Pensively
Which Would You Rather Throw Away: Love or Money?  Pensively Love
Which Would You Rather Throw Away: Love or Money? Pensively Money
Which Would You Rather Throw Away: Love or Money? Pensively
Tight-Lippy One Leg Women Pensively Terrorist Victim
Tight-Lippy One Leg Women Pensively

Wednesday, April 28

Posted
Hump Day Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Time
Hump Day Writing Com Dew Drop Inn
Hump Day Writing Com Dew Drop Inn
Remix Howling at the Pink Super Moon Writing Digest Lunatic Poems
Remix Howling at the Pink Super Moon Writing Digest Moon
Remix Howling at the Pink Super Moon Writing Digest
Left Hands Blues PSH Left Hand
Left Hands Blues PSH Body Part
Left Hands Blues PSH
  NaPoWrMo Unanswered Questions Love
  NaPoWrMo Unanswered Questions Dreams
  NaPoWrMo Unanswered Questions Life
  NaPoWrMo Unanswered Questions NaPoWrMo

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Winter Dreams of Barbados, Pensively, Caribbean
Winter Dreams of Barbados, Pensively, Barbados
Winter Dreams of Barbados, Pensively, Dreams
Winter Dreams of Barbados, Pensively, Winter
Winter Dreams of Barbados, Pensively, Travel
Winter Dreams of Barbados, Pensively,  
Joy in Morning Sun Pensively Angela
Joy in Morning Sun Pensively Wife
Joy in Morning Sun Pensively Joy
Joy in Morning Sun Pensively Love
Joy in Morning Sun Pensively Gratitude
Joy in Morning Sun Sunrise
Joy in Morning Sun Pensively Haiku
Joy in Morning Sun Pensively Short Forms
Joy in Morning Sun Pensively
April 29

Posted

Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Rain
Writing Com Dew Drop Inn God
Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Dew Drop Inn
Evening Delights Writer’s Digest Evening
Evening Delights Writer’s Digest Cocktails
Evening Delights Writer’s Digest Love
Evening Delights Writer’s Digest Food
Evening Delights Writer’s Digest Wife
Evening Delights Writer Digest
Kombucha Glass PSH Kombucha
Kombucha Glass PSH Drinking
Kombucha Glass PSH Kombucha
The Window of Love NaPoWrMo Windows
The Window of Love NaPoWrMo Love

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Sam Adams Sees Death All Around Pensively Extinction
 Sam Adams Sees Death All Around Pensively death
Sam Adams Sees Death All Around Pensively Birds
Sam Adams Sees Death All Around Pensively Sam Adams
Sam Adams Sees Death All Around Pensively
The Pink Super Moon Pensively tanka
The Pink Super Moon Pensively Short Forms
The Pink Super Moon Pensively Lunatic
The Pink Super Moon Pensively Moon
The Pink Super Moon Pensively Haiku
The Pink Super Moon Pensively Short Forms
The Pink Super Moon Pensively Lunatic
The Pink Super Moon Pensively Moon
The Pink Super Moon Pensively
I Met My Fate That Date Dream Writing Com Poets Corner Fate
I Met My Fate That Date Dream Writing Com Poets Corner Dream Girl
I Met My Fate That Date Dream Writing Com Poets Corner Dream
I Met My Fate That Date Dream Writing Com Poets Corner Love at First Sight
I Met My Fate That Date Dream Writing Com Poets Corner Love
I Met My Fate That Date Dream Writing Com Poets Corner Wife
I Met My Fate That Date Dream Writing Com Poets Corner 
A Witch, A Zombie, Ghost and Elvis, and Witch
A Witch, A Zombie, Ghost, and Elvis Zombie
A Witch, A Zombie, a Ghost, and Elvis Ghost
A Witch, A Zombie, a Ghost, and Elvis Elvis
Bad Rabbit Runs from Wolves Rabbit
Bad Rabbit Runs from Wolves Wolves
Bad Rabbit Runs from Wolves Tanka
Bad Rabbit Runs from Wolves Short Forms
Life in Rocky and Bullwinkle Universe Tanka
Life in Rocky and Bullwinkle Universe Short Form
Life in Rocky and Bullwinkle Universe Rocky and Bullwinkle Show

April 30

Posted

Catharsis Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Catharsis
Catharsis Writing Com Dew Drop Inn April
Catharsis Writing Com Dew Drop Inn
Goodbye Writer Digest Goodbye
Goodbye Writer Digest Death
Goodbye Writer Digest
Reimagine Your Days: Ramen Today PSH Ramen
Reimagine Your Days: Ramen Today PSH Food
Reimagine Your Days: Ramen Today PSH Korea
Reimagine Your Days: Ramen Today PSH
Directions to Narnia NaPoWrMo Narnia
Directions to Narnia NaPoWrMo

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Hamper My Fears Pensively Haiku
Hamper My Fears Pensively Short Forms
Hamper My Fears Pensively Fears
Hamper My Fears Pensively
Homeless Beggar Walks into The Night Pensively Homeless
Homeless Beggar Walks into The Night Pensively
Lonely Lake at The End of The World Pensively End of The World
Lonely Lake at The End of The World Pensively Sam Adams
Lonely Lake at The End 0f The World Pensively
Birds Flying Over Dead City Pensively End of The World
Birds Flying Over Dead City Pensively Birds
Birds Flying Over Dead City
Another Letter to Microsoft
Fridge Shy Matt Gaetz Cheers Lady Gaga 

Poetry Counts for 2021
Total YTD 860 as of May 2, 2021
January 180 7 per day
February 200 7 per day
March 206 7 per day
April 269 9 per day
May 3
If I continue at this pace, I will have over 3,000 new poems by the end of the

Begin Poems

April 25

                     Appointment with the Grim Reaper, Writers Digest                    

For today's prompt, write an appointment poem. My first thoughts with appointments conjure up visions of doctors, dentists, and parent-teacher conferences. But there are also business meetings and romantic dates. For the most part, people are very appointment-centric, because it gives people a reason and opportunity to come together (kind of like my annual appointment to poem daily on this site).
Appointment with the Grim Reaper

Sam Adams
One day received a summons
From the Grim Reaper

The note read

“Your appointment
For final status determination (FSD)
Is confirmed for midnight Saturday

A driver
will come for you
Be prepared

Tell no one
This appointment is high
Q level classified.”

Sam got up at 11:30
And waited for the courier
While his wife slept

There was a knock on the door
He went out
The courier was dressed
In a black uniform

But did not look entirely human
He had a blank face
No hair
And horns on his head

He said

I am your driver today
After your hearing

I will drive you
Either to Hell,
Or to heaven

Or back here
If you are given a reprieve
Of your FSD
 
They drove off
In his black SUV
The plates read, 666 hell

They soon entered
A dark forbidding forest
The road ended

They got out
And walked
Found themselves
In a large field

They parked
And walked
To a large black tent

A demon attendant
Barked
Name and DOB

Sam Adams
10-30-195

You have an appointment
With Mr. GR
Proceed to door number 2
For you FSD
Good luck

He entered the room
Mr. GR dressed in black
Wearing cool Ray-ban glasses
Looked up from his computer

Sam Adams
He growled

You have been given a reprieve
From Hell
For five years

Your next FSD will be final
Probably Hell but maybe Heaven
That decision is beyond my pay grade

You may go back home
My driver will drive you
Go!

The driver took him home
He went to bed
Woke up convinced
It was all a dream

Later that day
A letter arrived

Appointment with GR
For final status determination
Has been confirmed for
Five years from today’s date

We advise you to get
Your affairs in order
There is no appeal
From the final FSD

PSH Blue Blues

Use color to spark your imagination. For starters, I suggest you brainstorm /green/! Consider green with envy; green around the gills; green grass of home; eco-green; and finally, all the myriad shades of green in the landscape. Use the word /green/ in your poem or imply it through your word choices. If you don’t care for green, try another color that adds poetry to the rainbow!
Here’s an example that is both implicit and explicit based upon green: a traditional 5/7/5 Haiku: Shamrocks greening now/after winter dormancy/one white bloom for luck.

Blue Blues

Once in a while
I wake up
Feeling the blues
Singing the blues
Being the blues

Then I lookout
At the bright blue sky
And the dawning sun

And at my wife
Wearing a blue shirt
And blue jeans

She smiles
The blues fly out the window
Joining the sky

I go for a walk
As the blues fade
Away in the morning sun

Not Alone – Response to Alone by Edgar Allen Poe

Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that responds, in some way, to another. This could be as simple as using a line or image from another poem as a jumping-off point, or it could be a more formal poetic response to the argument or ideas raised in another poem. You might use a favorite (or least favorite poem) as the source for your response. And if you’re having trouble finding a poem to respond to, here are a few that might help you generate ideas: “This World is Not Conclusion,” by Peter Gizzi, “In That Other Fantasy Where We Live Forever,” by Wanda Coleman, “La Chalupa, the Boat,” by Jean Valentine, or “Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm,” by Carl Phillips.

Not Alone – Response to Alone by Edgar Allen Poe

Sam Adams
Was a bit of a loner
Lost in his inner world

Filled with dreams
Nightmares
Poetic fragments
Short story ideas

Always felt like he was living 
The Edgar Allen Poe poem,

“Alone
From childhood’s hour, I have not been
As others were—I have not seen
As others saw—I could not bring
My passions from a common spring—
From the same source, I have not taken
My sorrow—I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone—
And all I loved—I loved alone—
Then—in my childhood—in the dawn
Of a most stormy life—was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still—
From the torrent, or the fountain—
From the red cliff of the mountain—
From the sun that ‘round me roll’s
In its autumn tint of gold—
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by—
From the thunder, and the storm—
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view—"
But then one day
He met the girl
Of his dreams

She walked off a bus
Into his life
Became his wife
And he was alone
No more

When I was a young man, she came to me, Sonnet about a Shakespeare Sonnet PSH

When I was a young man, she came to me

When I was a young man, she came to me
She came to me one day while I dreamed
I met my fate that date our love came to be
I saw her there who are you I screamed?
She just smiled filling my heart with love
I did not know what I should do or say
As she entered my life became my wife
I will never forget for on that day
When she walked off that bus became real
I saw here there standing love in her eyes
I did not know what right then I should feel
I looked at her my heart began to rise
Just like in a famous Shakespeare poem
My heart began just like a poet

April 26

Morning Thoughts Writers Digest

For today's prompt, write a thoughtful poem. Of course, my first thought (maybe like yours) is, "Aren't all poems thought poems?" Well, I guess, but I'm thinking of a poem that captures a thought or random ramblings running 'round your cranium. It doesn't have to be a rambling poem, but that's one thing. Another possibility is having two people share their thoughts and/or NOT share them. Think about it a moment and then unleash your thought poem.

Morning Thoughts

Every morning
I sit and think

Deep thoughts
Writing down my dreams

My hopes, my fears
My nightmares

But more important
Than anything

I record my happy thoughts
Of my life

With the love of life
My wife

To Those Who Have Gone On PSH

Consider writing a poem to or about someone who has died or is no longer in your life. This could be in the form of a letter, a description of the person, a list of things you miss about the person, or just tell them about your day. Show emotion through concrete objects and actions. Try not to tell. I look forward to reading your words.

To Those Who Have Gone On

I am 65 years old
And as I get older
I recall with fondness
All those who have gone on

So many people
Have passed on
To the other lands
Leaving us with their memories

My father died in 1985
My mother in 2005
My sister in 2007

My friends have also passed on

My HS debate friend
Demel T died from AIDS

I lost my college roommate
Jon W

David C my Peace course
Language student

I lost my visa line colleague
Paul S

I lost my second and third boss
In the foreign service
Julian in a terrorist bombing

Ted H who I worked with twice
Dead of a heart attack
Chris my boss in Bangkok
Also dead from a heart attack

Judy my artistic friend
From Bombay days

And so many others
Have gone on

I only hope wherever they are 
That they are thinking of me
As I think fondly of them

Advice to Those Getting Married An Occasion Poem NaPoWrMo

Our prompt for today (optional, as always) is to write an “occasional” poem. What’s that? Well, it’s a poem suited to, or written for, a particular occasion. This past January, lots of people who usually don’t encounter poetry got a dose when Amanda Gorman read a poem at President Biden’s inauguration. And then she followed it up with a poem at the Superbowl (not traditionally an event associated with verse!) The poem you write can be for an occasion in the past or the future, one important to you and your family (a wedding, a birth), or for an occasion in the public eye (the Olympics, perhaps?).

Advice to Those Getting Married         

Often when I go to a wedding
I am asked for some advice
To pass on to the newlyweds

Based on my almost 40 years
Of being a happily married man
What can I say to them?

I don’t know the answer
Other than this

The most important thing
For a married man to realize is this

There are two rules of marriage

Rule number one
Your wife is always right

Rule number two
See rule number one

That advice has worked
For me for almost 40 years

April 26—Sijo (Korean poetic form) NaPoWrMo

3 lines of 13-17 syllables each, sometimes divided into 6 lines.
Write two sijo poems: 1 of 3 lines, 1 of 6 lines…
My info on sijo comes from a wonderful children's book.
More info: https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/sijo-poetic-form

Manifestations of Deep Love

Manifestations of deep love, such profound thoughts all around me
Dreaming dark dreams, of other worlds, filled with a deep love
I see it, all around my heart, manifestations of my love

Coronavirus sijo

Coronavirus fears erupt, all around us, fear stalking us 
All around us dark fears, fears of the end, end of the world
Death stalking, filling the world, filling it with fear, death is near
General corona unleashes his viral army, on the world
Everyone is afraid, nonsense in the media, antivacers lie
People don’t wear masks, masks that would save their foolish lives

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Write a belief poem and/or...Write a don't believe poem. Writer’s Digest Why I Don’t Believe in Christianity   Religion
 Write a belief poem and/or...Write a don't believe poem. Writer’s Digest Why I Don’t Believe in Christianity Christianity
Write a believe poem and/or...Write a don't believe poem. Writer’s Digest Why I Don’t Believe in Christianity Right-wing
Why I Don’t Believe in Christianity Reprised April 2019

Why I am not a Christian Easter Thoughts

On Easter Sunday,
I often think about Christianity
I don’t understand why anymore
 would believe such nonsense

The essential story makes no sense
An imaginary all-powerful deity
that no one has ever seen or heard
Except for psychotic patients or drug users

Comes down to earth
 and impregnates a married woman
Who has never had sex for some reason?

And her husband
Is okay with that
Believes her wild story
And still does not have sex
Until after the baby is born

Then there is total silence
Nothing about Jesus's childhood
30 years later he emerges

Preaching love, peace, and brotherhood
And denouncing the corrupt temple leaders
 and the Jewish leaders as well

The miracles
Also, don’t make any sense
In the real world,
you can’t turn fish into bread

Can’t walk on water
 can raise the dead etc. Etc.
Just does not happen
In the world, we live in
And has not happened
since those ancient days

Then the last supper makes some sense
Jesus knows he is about to be betrayed
But he does not confront Judas
Does not run away
Does not encourage his disciples
o run away with him

The whole Jesus Mary M
The story also does not make sense
Jesus must have been married
Or he was gay
There is no doubt

Either way,
The story makes no sense
The crucifixion
Is it the only part of the story I buy?

Jesus was put to death
Because he was a rebel leader
And the Romans tolerated no dissent
To the roman’s right to conquer and rule

The rising from the dead stories
All contradict one another
And Jesus was either walking
As a normal human being

Or was a ghost
The door was rent open
As if by lightening
Or not

Finally, we have been waiting
Over 2,000 years for his return
You would think
If the story is remotely true
He would have turned up by now

Except he has
As many lunatics
Claim to be Jesus
In the flesh

Including my college housemate
Who after taking too much LSD?
Proclaimed he was the messiah
Come back to earth
All delusional of course

 and that is what I think of Christianity
nothing but fairy tales
 and mass delusions
surrounding a kernel of truth

Love each other
Treat each other right
Don’t be consumed with greed
 but couldn’t that message be made simpler
Without all the associated nonsense?

So, on this day I say
Open your minds
And discard the nonsensical elements of Christian thought
And follow the true teachings of Jesus
Even if you don’t believe in the imaginary man in the sky

Rafting at The End of The World End of The World                                         
Rafting at The End of The World Dreams
PSH Rafting at The End of The World PHS
                                                                                                                            
Use the Fritz Perl’s-inspired -analysis technique of setting an empty chair beside your chair; mentally put your poem topic (or a dream you want to both analyze and write a poem about) into the other chair and ask it questions. To answer the question, get up out of your chair and move over to the other chair and answer it as your topic or as your dream. While you are in the second chair if you just let what wants to come out of your mouth come out, the second chair, that will probably be your subconscious mind talking to you.
Based this on a recent dream yesterday, or tonight
Rafting at the End of the World
Rafting trip Nightmare

One day Sam Adams
Woke up and found
His bed had been transformed
Into a raft

And they were being swept away
Down a flooded river
after a great flood
had destroyed the city. 

The raft floats down
a river filled with broken-down buildings,
Dead bodies, dead cats, and dead dogs
and debris all over.

Sam Adams looks up
At the distant banks
On the left bank
He sees wolf-like creatures prowling
about looking to eat any survivors.

On the right side
There are alien creatures
in silver space suits
shooting at any survivors

the raft is careening
out of control
towards a huge cataract
of impending doom

April 27

Wytai Blues - Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows   NaPoWrMo Prompt Wytal
Wytai Blues - Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows   NaPoWrMo Prompt Guns
Wytai Blues - Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows   NaPoWrMo Corona
Florida School Fires Vaccinated Teachers   NaPoWrMo Florida
Cops Open Fire on a Black Man Sitting in His Car in his Driveway   NaPoWrMo BLM

In today’s (optional) prompt, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem inspired by an entry from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. The entries are very vivid – maybe too vivid! But perhaps one of the sorrows will strike a chord with you or even get you thinking about defining an in-between, minor, haunting feeling that you have, and that does not yet have a name.
wytai
n. a feature of modern society that suddenly strikes you as absurd and grotesque—from zoos and milk-drinking to organ transplants, life insurance, and fiction—part of the faint background noise of absurdity that reverberates from the moment our ancestors first crawled out of the slime but could not for the life of them remember what they got up to do.

Random Wytai Moments

Florida School Fires Vaccinated Teachers
In Florida, a private school
Going out all anti-COVID Vaccine
Has banned teachers who are vaccinated
What’s next banning masks
Declaring COVID a hoax
As part of their school policy?
Tucker Carlos Forcing Children to Wear Mask is Criminal Child Abuse
Tucker Carlson says Cops should be called to prevent mask child abuse
Really? Tucker?
That is what the police should be doing?
Forcing a child to wear a mask
To protect themselves and others
Is now felony child abuse?

Cops Open Fire on a Black Man Sitting in His Car in his Driveway

Five Cops converge on a black man
Who is sitting in his car waiting for them?
To come up to tell him
Why he was pulled over

Instead of approaching the vehicle
To talk to him
They open fire
Shooting 40 shots

His crime?
Alleged drug dealing
History of running away from the cops
But his real crime?
Who knows?
Other than driving while black
When will this madness end?

April 28

Hump Day Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Time
Hump Day Writing Com Dew Drop Inn

Hump Day Writing Com Dew Drop Inn

Half the week is done
Halfway to the end
Another week in paradise
With the love of my life
By my side

Remix Howling at the Pink Super Moon Writing Digest Lunatic Poems
Remix Howling at the Pink Super Moon Writing Digest Moon
Remix Howling at the Pink Super Moon Writing Digest

For today's prompt, write a remix poem. This has become one of my favorite prompts because it asks us to look over what we've written this month and pick something (or many somethings) to poem out in a new way. Maybe your free verse becomes a sonnet, or your sestina transforms into haiku. Or take a line or phrase from each of your poems this month and work it into a cohesive new creation.

Howling at the Pink Super Moon

On a moonlit late night
The Pink Supermoon
Casting a baleful light
On the world below

While inside
Sam Adams sat drinking
In a depraved bar
In a den of iniquity

In an evil part of the city
On the left side
Of society

Drinking up a storm
With his buddies
Johnny Walker, Jack Daniels
Jim Beam, and Mr. Evan
And Old Granddad looked on

Encouraging him to drink
One scotch, one bourbon, and one beer

He was just an unhinged lunatic
Dreaming of howling at the full moon

Watching the world walk by
Looking at all the fine-looking babes

Walking by the street
Thinking wild, erotic thoughts
Of endless wild libertine passions

He looked up
At the naked dancing ladies
Dancing up a storm
With an attitude
A Z tude
That could kill

When into the bar
Walked the most beautiful women
In the Universe

So wild, so free
So wonderfully alive

He did not know what to do
As this vision of delight
Sauntered through the bar

In skin-tight leather pants
Looked so fine
That his eyeballs hurt

Finally, he had to say something
he gathered up my manly courage
He walked up to her

She looked at him
Instantly bewitched his soul
With a devilish grin

He lost all reason
And became a raving lunatic
Unhinged lunatic

Under the lunatic light of the full moon
Of the blood-red lights of the moon
Full of wild passions
The lustful beast stirs again

And starts running and running
Howling at the moon
Riding into the new dawn
On a demented Harley Davis cycle
With two naked babes on his back

Riding into the sun
90 miles per second
At the speed of thought
He disappears into the lunatic light
Of the full moon

Sam Adams woke up alone,
In his bed
The naked babes
Having disappeared
From his demented dreams

Saying,

“Man, that was quite a night
I better not go there again”

The wild beast
Laughs
He has heard that before

And joins him
In howling at the moon
In the fading light
Of the lost night

Source poems

Howling at the Moon

On a moonlit late night
I sat in a bar
Drinking drams of demented, fermented dream dew
Just an unhinged lunatic
Dreaming of howling at the full moon

Watching the world walk by
Looking at all the fine-looking babes
Walking by the street
Thinking wild, erotic thoughts
Of endless wild libertine passions

When into the bar
Walked the most beautiful women
In the Universe
So wild, so free
So wonderfully alive

I did not know what to do
As this vision of delight
Sauntered through the bar
In skin-tight leather pants
Looked so fine
That my eyeballs hurt

Finally, I had to say something
I gathered up my manly courage
I walked up to her

She looked at me
Instantly bewitched my soul
With a devilish grin

I lost all reason
And became a raving lunatic
Unhinged lunatic
Howling at the moon

Foaming at the mouth
A wild, free werewolf
Howling at the lunatic light
Of the full Moon

Howling at the Moon

I stood outside
Between the trees
In a field
On the outside of town

Beneath the lunatic rays
Of the blood-red full moon

The lunatic lights of the moon
Casts a wild primeval glow
On me

The hormonal chemicals are unleashed
The wild beast within
Escapes it chain

And I howl with delight
A werewolf
Free at last

To run amuck
Free of its civilized restrains
Throwing off its clothes
Stripping naked

Running wild
Naked and free
A wild man
Enjoying his freedom

As I sit
Under the lunatic light of the full moon
Of the blood-red lights of the moon
Full of wild passions
The lustful beast stirs again

And starts running and running
Howling at the moon
Riding into the new dawn
On a demented Harley Davis cycle
With two naked babes on his back

Riding into the sun
90 miles per second
At the speed of thought
He disappears into the lunatic light
Of the full moon

And I wake up
Alone,
In my bed
Saying, man, that was quite a night
I better not go there again

The wild beast
Laughs
He has heard that before

And I join him
In howling at the moon

The Pink Moon Inspires Lunacy

On a moonlit night
The Pink moon
Shone casting a baleful light
On the world below

A man sat drinking
In a depraved bar
In an evil part of the city

Drinking up a storm
With his buddies
Johnny Walker, Jack Daniels
Jim Beam, and Mr. Evan
And Old Granddad looked on

Encouraging him to drink
One scotch, one bourbon, and one beer

He looked up
At the naked dancing ladies
Dancing up a storm
With an attitude
A Z tude
That could kill

He stood up
Stepped outside
And howled
At the Pink Moon
Who smiled at him

Left Hands Blues PSH Left Hand
Left Hands Blues PSH Body Part
Left Hands Blues PSH

Write a poem using your nondominant hand using “My head is a..” as your first line of the poem.
Left Hands Blues
My head hurts
As I type these words
Using my left hand
Reflecting upon my past
As a child
Forced to write
With my right hand
Even though
I was Left-handed
  NaPoWrMo Unanswered Questions Love
  NaPoWrMo Unanswered Questions Dreams
  NaPoWrMo Unanswered Questions Life
  NaPoWrMo Unanswered Questions   NaPoWrMo
Our prompt today (optional, as always), is to write a poem that poses a series of questions. The questions could be a mix of the serious (“What is the meaning of life?”) and humorous (“What’s the deal with cats knocking things off tables?”), the interruptive (“Could you repeat that?”) and the conversational (“Are those peanuts? Can I have some?”). You can choose to answer them – or just let the questions keep building up, creating a poem that asks the reader to come up with their answer
Unanswered Questions
I have so many questions to ask
First how and why I dreamt
Of meeting my wife.
How did she haunt my dreams?
How did she come to life?
What was our past life like?
Why Do I fall in love with her every day?
What does love at first sight mean?
Why did that occur to me three times?
What does hate at first sight mean?
Also, three times in my life,
what does that mean?
What is this thing called love anyway?
Will we meet aliens in my lifetime?
Will I live to see humans on Mars?
Will I live long enough?
to walk on the moon.
When will we develop new body parts?
When can I get new teeth?
Finally, when I die
will there be a heaven or hell?
What will my judgment be?
Finally, will people remember me after I die?

April 29

Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Rain
Writing Com Dew Drop Inn God
Writing Com Dew Drop Inn 

Rain

Rain
Are God’s tears
Crying over the mess
His creatures
Made of his creation

Dream 3004 Evening Delights Writer Digest Evening
Dream 3004 Evening Delights Writer Digest Cocktails
Dream 3005 Evening Delights Writer Digest Love
Dream 3005 Evening Delights Writer Digest Food
Dream 3005 Evening Delights Writer Digest Wife
Dream 3005 Evening Delights Writer Digest

For today's prompt, write an evening poem. The evening can be a quiet and contemplative time, a stressed or fearful time, or, well, party time. Evenings can be lonely or romantic, cool, or humid, inspirational, or numbing. And today (or tonight, depending on when you consume your poetry prompts), the evening is the time for poeming--even if you're doing it in the middle of the afternoon.

 Evening Delights

My favorite time of day
Is early evening
Cocktail hour
When I sit down
To dinner
With my lovely wife
The love of my life
Either at home
Or at a restaurant
After our evening walk
As we eat dinner
We salute the end
Of the day
With a glass of wine
Or a cocktail
Or Soju
As the day fades
Into an evening
Filled with Love

Kombucha Glass PSH Kombucha
Kombucha Glass PSH Drinking
Kombucha Glass PSH Kombucha

This prompt is inspired by 1.) the moment in The Octopus Teacher when she attaches herself to his chest and he muses about not knowing it would be the last time they made contact. (hmmm, like what would he do differently if he knew?)  And 2.) the difference between straight descriptive/instructive language (like directions for Microsoft) and the sublime, artistic language of tenderness.
1. First you have to see the movie. Highly recommended for all sentient beings anyway, so I don’t feel bad about the added homework. You will thank me if you haven’t seen it. I promise. If you have, you will surely remember this stunning moment in the film. Feel into its tenderness and gentle communication. Recall tenderness in different parts of your body. Its scent and texture, colors, and sensation.
2. Look around your writing area and select an item that holds a feeling of tenderness, or gentleness, either because of the way it is used or with whom you associate it.
3. Write two…  three to four-minute free writes. The first is simply, a perfunctory, clinical, if you will, description of the item you selected.  The second is a treatise on its tenderness, in the voice of the object.
4. Finally your mission, should you decide to accept it….is to write a poem that takes the material from both free writes and shuffles them together to make a single poem. How would you communicate if you knew it would be the last communication remembered forever?  That said, I wish you communications you will always want to be remembered by. After all, we know how significant the last line of any poem is to its entire experience.
You may change tenses or syntax if necessary, in the final poem. And you may eliminate anything that no longer fits…. but trust that everything you need for your final poem is already there.

Kombucha Glass

Every day I start my day
With a glass of home-brew
Kombucha that is

Made with tea
Flavored with fruit juices
Fired up with Turmeric

But most importantly
Made with love
By my wife
The love of my life

The window of Love    NaPoWrMo Windows
The window of Love   NaPoWrMo Love
Window of Love

And now, for our prompt (optional, as always). This one is called “in the window.” Imagine a window looking into a place or onto a particular scene. It could be your childhood neighbor’s workshop, or a window looking into an alien spaceship. Maybe a window looking into a witch’s gingerbread cottage, or Lord Nelson’s cabin aboard the H.M.S. Victory. What do you see? What’s going on?

Window of Love

Every morning
I step outside
Do my morning thing
While my wife
The love of my life
Sleeps peacefully

I look through the window
From the balcony herb garden
And watch her sleeping

My heart filling with love
As she sleeps away
The early morning

When she wakes up
She fills me
With the sunshine
Of her love

Driving my blues
Away
With the dawning sun

April 30

Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Catharsis
Writing Com Dew Drop inn

Finally, the end
Has been reached
Of this annual poetry
Marathon
April poetry madness
Has consumed my soul
And in the end
A sense of accomplishment
The ultimate catharsis

Catharsis Writing Com Dew Drop Inn Catharsis
Catharsis Writing Com Dew Drop Inn April
Catharsis Writing Com Dew Drop Inn

Finally, the end
Has been reached
Of this annual poetry
Marathon
April poetry madness
Has consumed my soul
And in the end
A sense of accomplishment
The ultimate catharsis

Goodbye Writer Digest Goodbye
Goodbye Writer Digest Death
Goodbye Writer Digest

For today's prompt, write a goodbye poem. Whether leaving for a holiday or going to get groceries, many people find themselves in positions of saying goodbye to each other. So, this feels like an appropriate way to close out this year's challenge...until we meet again.

Good-Bye

To all those who
 have passed on
to another,
hopefully better world
I say goodbye

So many people
Have died this year
From COVID

From Gun violence
From the aging
Of the baby boomer generation

Many musicians
Actors and writers
Have played their last songs
And we will remember them all

Walter Mondale VP, Ambassador, Good guy
Prince Philip ultimate husband
DMX great rapper
George Segal great actor
Vernon Jordan ultimate power player
Norman Jester the phantom tollbooth is closed
Lawrence Ferlinghetti one of my favorite writers
Chick Corea one of my favorite musicians
Mary Wilson just supreme
George Schultz my big boss
Christopher Plummer the Actor
Larry King final interview
Hank Arron greatest baseball player ever

And so many others
Will soon joins them
As the coronavirus marches on
And guns continue to kill thousands 
And cancer
Traffic accidents
And the aging boomer population
Fades away due to old age

I am 65 years old
And as I get older
I have had to say goodbye
To so many people

I am losing count
But I will miss them all
They live on in my memories

My father died in 1985
My mother in 2005
My sister in 2007

My friends have also passed on

My HS debate friend
Demel T died from AIDS

I lost my college roommate
Jon W

David C my Peace course
language student

I lost my visa line colleague
Paul S

I lost my second and third boss
In the foreign service
Julian in a terrorist bombing

Ted H who I worked with twice
Dead of a heart attack
Chris my boss in Bangkok
Also dead from a heart attack

Judy my artistic friend
From Bombay days

And so many others
Have gone on

I only hope wherever they are 
That they are thinking of me
As I think fondly of them

Reimagine Your Days: Ramen Today PSH Ramen
Reimagine Your Days: Ramen Today PSH Food
Reimagine Your Days: Ramen Today PSH Korea
Reimagine Your Days: Ramen Today PSH

Writing Prompt — Reimagine Your Days:

write a poem about yesterday that uses the word “possum” or
write a poem about today that uses the word “ramen” or
write a poem about tomorrow that uses the word “orthopedist”

Ramen Today

Today is a good day
To sit down
And eat a simple bowl
Of ramen
With an egg on top

Koreans call it ramyeon,
라면
Ramyeon

The Japanese call it ramen
ラーメン
Rāmen

Chinese call it
拉麵
Lāmiàn

But it is the same thing
No matter where you are

When I first lived in Korea
I ate a lot of ramen
To stretch my Peace Corps budget

There are many new variations
Coming on the market
Even cheese ramen

But in the end
My favorite
Is the basic ramen
With an egg on top
And a side of Kimchi

Directions to Narnia   NaPoWrMo Narnia
Directions to Narnia   NaPoWrMo

And now for our final (still optional!) prompt. Today’s prompt is based on a prompt written by Jacqueline Saphar and featured in this group of prompts published back in 2015 by The Poetry Society of the U.K. This prompt challenges you to write a poem in the form of a series of directions describing how a person should get to a particular place. It could be a real place, like your local park, or an imaginary or unreal place, like “the bottom of your heart,” or “where missing socks go.” Fill your poem with sensory details, and make them as wild or intimate as you like

Directions to Narnia

The land of Narnia exists
But the entranceways
Are hidden in secret places
All over the world

To get to Narnia
First, you have to believe
That Narnia exists

Then you have to travel
To spirit-filled places
Like the top of a mountain

Go to the sacred mountain
In China, Japan, Korea, or Thailand
Hike behind the Buddhist temple

Find a cave hidden under a waterfall
Chant five times
Narnia exists Narnia exists Narnia Exist

A portal to other worlds
Will open up
Step-through
And you will find yourself
In Narnia

 End

 

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