march thirty one: national haiku writing month, # 14; Happy Valentine’s Day

Here’s a haiku for Valentine’s Day. Enjoy!

haiku for love day  

to give me your heart

you have to want more from life

or risk loneliness

 

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march thirty one: writers digest chapbook poetry challenge, prompt #4

English: Skin color distribution around the world, data for native populations collected by R. Biasutti prior to 1940 Italiano: Distribuzione del colore della pelle di tutto il mondo, i dati raccolti per le popolazioni native di R. Biasutti prima del 1940 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

For the month of November, the challenge is to write apoem-a-day andsubmit your finished work for a Chapbook Challenge.

Find out the daily Chapbook Challenge prompts by visiting Poetic Asides written by Robert Lee Brewer on Writer’s Digest at:

http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/poetic-asides/2012-november-pad-chapbook-challenge

Prompt #4 from Marie Ellen Good:  Take the phrase “Just Beneath (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then write the poem.  Possible titles include “Just Beneath My Feet,” “Just Beneath This City,” or “Just Beneath the Surface.”

MY POEM:

Just Beneath My Skin

just beneath my skin

what you can’t see

is my heart

blood pumping through my veins

giving me life

my bones

holding up my frame

guiding me through

the hustle and bustle

of busy schedules

what you don’t see

is the intellect

underneath my skin tone

beyond my hue

the dark skin

that doesn’t allow you to

see the human

the woman

the citizen

who wants

the opportunities from life

that historians have defined as

life, liberty, and happiness

but because

scienc doesn’t allow you

to see underneath my skin

you only see what’s at sea level

somehow society that allows you to

assign derogatory names

to people you don’t know

for whom you’ve willingly overturned

years of civil rights

violated biblical courtesies

so that in the name of God

you have been allowed to treat me

like  the slave

that in your mind

was never allowed to be free

and in your mind

Lincoln never signed that declaration

giving me

the same assignment  as you

to call America home

yet, underneath my skin

you will never know

what it feels like

to be treated

as second class

not even the mail

gets demoted like this

 

c) Kellea Tibbs and march thirty one, 2012. All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of original march thirty one material without express and written permission from the author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. 

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march thirty one: writer’s digest chapbook poetry challenge, prompt #3

Cover of Poltergeist (25th Anniversary Edition)

For the month of November, the challenge is to write apoem-a-day andsubmit your finished work for a Chapbook Challenge.

Find out the daily Chapbook Challenge prompts by visiting Poetic Asides written by Robert Lee Brewer on Writer’s Digest at:

http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/poetic-asides/2012-november-pad-chapbook-challenge

 

Prompt #3 is from Joshua Gray:  Write a poem that scares you. It could be a scary movie or ghost story poem. It could be a poem about a secret in your past. It could be a poem about your worst fear. It just needs to bring up a scary/fearful/uncomfortable emotion as you write.

 

MY POEM:

scary moments

last week

I watched Poltergeist on Halloween

that classic scary movie

from the 80s

with the pre-paranormal-esque

somewhat believable

story line

about houses built

on top of the graves

of long lost relatives

who returned to haunt the present

the shady real estate brokers

and the revenge of the underdog

a throwback of memories

considering the recession

houses in foreclosure

families in disarray

estate sales

and somehow trendsetters

manage to make downsizing

to apartment living

chic and cool again

scary movies

morphing into real life

make zombies and serial killers

look like kindergarten

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march thirty one: writer’s digest chapbook poetry challenge, prompt #2

English: The Atlantic Ocean. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

For the month of November, the challenge is to write a poem-a-day andsubmit your finished work for a Chapbook Challenge.

Find out the daily Chapbook Challenge prompts by visiting Poetic Asides written by Robert Lee Brewer on Writer’s Digest at:

http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/poetic-asides/2012-november-pad-chapbook-challenge

In my effort to continue to get caught up on the Chapbook Challenge, here is Prompt #2 from Khara House

Write a full moon poem. The full moon might be a character or symbol in the poem. Or the poem might address what happens during a full moon: magic, mischief, madness, etc.

 

MY POEM:

moon landing

for all you old heads

debbie harry sang about the tide

being high

before she decided to move on

but what about when a hurricane

barreling down the street

knocking on your door

causing life to come to a standstill

so that you can’t move on?

who’s responsible

for pleading your case

to the man in the moon

to keep the tide

from getting too high?

usually we like it when

the sun, the moon, and the stars

are aligned in our favor

but when they’re

aligned for disaster

who will manage the clean up

of the hearts, the souls, and the lives

that have become debris

along the Atlantic?

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march thirty one: national poetry month – 30 poems in 30 days, April 30

The 2006 State Champions of the Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Well, I made it, it’s the last day of April and I have written a poem for each day. I took on the 30 poems in 30 days challenge from the National Poetry Writing Month website, http://www.NaPoWriMo.net and I’ve officially celebrated National Poetry Month as all poets should.  Thanks for following along and I hope you  have enjoyed the journey as much as I have! Here’s my last poem for April:

payday haiku

bone thugs said it best

people scrambling for checks

its first of the month

 

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march thirty one: national poetry month – 30 poems in 30 days, April 29

haiku for the work week

Sunday, day of rest

take time to recuperate

prepping for Monday

 

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march thirty one: national poetry month – 30 poems in 30 days, April 28

haiku for Music Of The Past (this poem was inspired by the fact that for the last few days, old school songs from the 80s, 90s, and most recently the 60s, have been popping in my head very randomly.)

music in my head

Old School was a way of life

where is the talent?

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march thirty one: national poetry month – 30 poems in 30 days, April 27

haiku for business

to entrepreneur

is to wish upon a star

American Dream

 

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march thirty one: national poetry month – 30 poems in 30 days, April 25

haiku for NPR (National Public Radio)

public radio

practice your listening skills

learn lots of new things

 

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march thirty one: national poetry month – 30 poems in 30 days, April 22

Earth Day

green

has many reasons for existing

it comes in handy

when you need a little change

it’s an action word

when we recycle and reuse

it’s  the nutrition

that helps our bodies maintain

it covered the paths

our ancestors walked on

before construction

green is a  living breathing thing

it is powerful

creates wealth

and encourages

both a human and environmental poverty

it”s necessary

for sustaining

us to eat, grow, and love

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