Jingle an explosive helicopter crash in a vicious snowstormbrought my waking hours to a thick start – I sat upquickly in bed, rubbed my eyes into morning then it startedoh oh oh ozempic!the commercial jingle for type-2 diabetes medsbanging in my head like a circle of kidsring-around-the-rosey-ing my brainoh oh oh ozempic!oh oh over and… Continue reading Poem 209 – Jingle
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Poem 193 – Dervish
Dervish Nothing arrivesyet nothing is somethingThe candle flame is fatflickering hard like it’s yellinglike it needs attention My skin is chilled from the morning wingIt’s too cool for Julyyet it’s too hot for July also There’s a frilly itch in my right earI can’t quite make it stop spinningit’s a whirling dervish of an itch… Continue reading Poem 193 – Dervish
Poem 191 – Haiku for the Last Page
Haiku for the Last Page ending is sweet blissa book’s worth of poems greetstomorrow’s heart songs This morning I finished filling up a second journal with poetry for my poem a day writing practice. What a very exciting feeling! The last pageThe second full journalTwo filled journalsThe new poem a day journal
VANESSA SHIELDS 