mjkippsApr 18, 20191 minApril 18, 2019In response to the prompt to create a poem in the voice of an object, I revamped an early draft, allowing one of the ancestors, whose...
mjkippsApr 15, 20191 minApril 15, 2019 The conflagration of Notre Dame Notre Dame de Paris Cornerstone laid by Pope Alexander III on the ruins of St. Etienne, and farther back a Roman temple, 856 years...
mjkippsApr 11, 20191 minApril 11, 2019Another origins poem Viking Stock The Norseman knocked over neighbors at night Loved their ladies, left little ones, Tall terrors undid...
mjkippsApr 11, 20191 minApril 11, 2019The assignment was to write a poem of origin. I wrote this one a while ago in my growing collection called genealogy poetry Legacy When...
mjkippsApr 10, 20191 minApril 10, 2019Today's challenge is to use a local colloquial or foreign phrase for the weather. AS i leave for France on April 27, and am trying to...
mjkippsApr 9, 20191 minApril 9, 2019The Temperate Zones Again and again, the calla lilies Spring from the earth, Just as all hope of warmth and joy Recedes into desperation....
mjkippsApr 4, 20191 minAPRIL 4, 2019Day Four-- challenge is to write a sad but simple poem; perhaps a sonnet. Deep in December… Do not yearn for Christmas in my hometown....
mjkippsApr 1, 20191 minAPRIL 1, 2019FIRST CHALLENGE: A RECIPE OR HOW-TO GUIDE POEM THE POEMS HERE ARE EARLY DRAFTS BASED ON NAPOWRIMO CHALLENGES AND PROMPTS. ONE EACH DAY...
mjkippsApr 1, 20191 minApril 2, 2019 Day Two challenge was to have an open ended question poem. At the Center In the early seasons of the sapling, Those long thin branches do...
mjkippsApr 1, 20191 minAPRIL 3, 2019Very much a draft of Day three Boxes of Silent Lore Meandering memories bump up against Pictures, snippets of 8mm, Old letters, brown and...