I was looking for a new journal, and pulled one off the shelf (heck, yeah, I have a shelf of fresh new journals!). It had some writing in it! Some stickers too...a forgotten start, which I realize was due to the wide girth of the lines on the page. Too wide! But, the writing was… Continue reading POEM A DAY – April 23
Author: Vanessa Shields
Writer. Mother. Lover.
POEM A DAY – April 22
Grateful for the Sun Simmering skinUltimate ultravioletNecessity now
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
VANESSA SHIELDS 