This poem is inspired by this photo...an ekphrastic endeavour. Black & White Moment There’s a dog-chewed black and white photo of meTaped to the corner of the desktop computer My Zia’s head is mostly devouredOne eye, a nose, a chin She’s tall, wearing a polyester dressPatterned in floating branch bunches in watercolour swathes A long… Continue reading POEM A DAY – January 4
Author: Vanessa Shields
Writer. Mother. Lover.
POEM A DAY – January 3
Did you see the moon last night? I sure did...Here is today's poem in its entirety...with an excerpted image below... The Way It Is Now last night when I let the dog out to peeand I listened to C’s voice on speakerphoneas she wept through a heart-opening release I looked at the moon and she… Continue reading POEM A DAY – January 3
POEM A DAY – January 2
Today's poem is in the form of a duplex. I am inspired by Jericho Brown's poem: A poem is a gesture toward home. In a nutshell, a duplex is meant to fuse and disrupt different forms of poetry...with a loosely established form of its own. 14 lines in 7 couplets. The first line echoes in… Continue reading POEM A DAY – January 2
POEM A DAY – January 1
Here we go! I'll be writing one poem every day this year. I'll do my best to post it at the beginning of the day...but that may not be consistent. Each poem I write is new, hand-written first (usually!), typed into a Canva image, posted here and posted on my instagram. If the poem is… Continue reading POEM A DAY – January 1
VANESSA SHIELDS 