65/100 Spied
64/100 The Last Dance
63/100 A Wish
April is Nation Poetry Month. This inspired writer Christopher de Vinck to write an opinion piece for The Dallas Morning News entitled, “Unfortunately, it’s National Poetry Month.” His title comes from his sadness over the fact that poetry needs an awareness campaign. I, too, find this sad. I was about to be all-in with this piece of writing until he said that “the art of poetry is in a pretentious mess.” He says, “…poetry is sinking to the lowest common denominator,…
62/100 Dwelling Place
61/100 Why I Write
60/100 The Dance
Today is National Haiku Day. I love haiku. There is something about the enormity that is held in their seemingly limited structure. Every syllable is chosen with intention. If only that were true in many other uses of language. Also, the first year that I did The 100 Day Project, I wrote a haiku each day. Revisiting that project from 2019 provides encouragement for this year’s one hundred poems. Today is a good day for you to pick up…
59/100 My Walk With Soren
58/100 Mean
57/100 No One
56/100 Dog Years