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
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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
POEM A DAY – April 18
Yellow Fish I have one of those standing fish vases mouth agape, awaiting waterbefore it glug, glug, glugs in joyoussonority after I fill it, pour. It is yellow. It waits beside the blue flower pothoming a lush fern. Yesterday, afterthe panicked rush to the vetafter stuffing my face with freshpita and garlic, after making a nutella cookie sandwich,… Continue reading POEM A DAY – April 18
POEM A DAY – April 17
it is a risky move and the timing is never going to be right w(itch) makes sense considering there’s never a good time to ground myself in the swirling extraordinary chaotic energy of using my voice as a translator for my heart’s mad rationalities. it is not lost on me, that the stress of throat-chakra… Continue reading POEM A DAY – April 17
VANESSA SHIELDS 