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POEM A DAY – April 21
*Warning: This poem is about boobs. What Happened When I Went to the Italian Bakery with My Shirt Unbuttoned I mean, I was in the store for a good fifteen minutesfilled the metal basket with: meat sauce, pizza, panini, cheeseordered a pound of roasted turkey sliced thinlygrabbed a package of freshly baked chocolate chip cookiesstood… Continue reading POEM A DAY – April 21
POEM A DAY – APRIL 20
Thanks to Cassie Caverhill for an outstanding workshop at the Writers' Assembly yesterday. She brought a colour-coded emotion wheel into the prompt pool, and the inspiration was to use an emotion's 'contrasting' emotions to write a poem. The emotion I chose was 'sadness', and it's contrast is 'joy', so I used words in the joy… Continue reading POEM A DAY – APRIL 20
POEM A DAY – April 19
I spent about 7.5 minutes on Instagram before I wrote this poem. I wish I could be like Austin Kleon who seems to have figured out his place in the etherwebs, and continues to thrive as 'himself'. I don't know. I got another major rejection on Friday. This one is taking it's sweet old time… Continue reading POEM A DAY – April 19
VANESSA SHIELDS 