Archive for the ‘Poetry’ Category

Downsized Writing

For a couple of weeks now, I’ve been digging poetry.
It’s not because April is National Poetry Month. I didn’t even know it was until I saw it mentioned on one of the blogs I visit. No, I’ve been reading the 16th Annual Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Anthology (which I will do a book review [...]

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In honor of April being Poetry Month…a Poem from Daniel

5:53pm
Spoken in the bathroom:
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“The angry poop is scared and mad.
It wants to fight.”
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Wow.
What else can you say to something like that?
Maybe I should bring back his Word of the Month.

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Ah…Poetry…

I wanted to post something deep and meaningful, but for the past couple of days I’ve been fighting the gift my boy gave me upon my return from the MWW. The Nyquil helps, but not all that well…you can, however, hop on over to the Writer’s Block, where you can see my latest post there.
In [...]

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Upon Daniel finally learning to jump…

It is this space…
the few inches
between feet and concrete.
A gap of nothingness which startles me:
Realizing
That for a fleeting moment
mere milliseconds
he ignores gravity itself
to launch his body
just a little closer
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