Today's poem was inspired by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer's poem of the day: 'Give up Rosemerry, He Wrote In His Letter’ What Beauty Arrives As I Let Go?After Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer’s ‘Give up Rosemerry, He Wrote In His Letter’ I forward fold into the Taoist concept of wu weimy muscles protest yet strengthenmy eyes close, my… Continue reading POEM A DAY – January 5
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POEM A DAY – January 4
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
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
VANESSA SHIELDS 