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throwback thursday poetry. ride or die circa 2020
Listen to my latest episode in my Throwback Thursday poetry series, Ride or Die circa 2020.
the april poems. inactive #NaPoWriMo 4/4/21
poem written 4/4/21 for national poetry writing month.
(in) active
Sitting and sitting
Broadcasting life
Across wifi
Home office
Intertwined
With home life
Zoom meetings
Conference calls
Sweat pants
And dress shirts
Business on the top
Party on the bottom
Grocery shopping
As social outing
Storing food
And toilet paper
Like Armageddon
Is coming
Food cooked
Lots of
food cooked
Pinterest recipes
Shared
Food eaten
Lots of
food eaten
Snacks
Lots of snacks
Wine and liquor
In hibernation
Pounds gained
Relaxing much
Hiding behind
The guise of self care
Wondering when
This pandemic
This lock down
Will end
So you
Can visit
Planet Fitness again
the april poems. before technology. 4/3/21
poem written, 4/3/21 for the NaPoWriMo Writer’s Digest daily challenge.
before technology . 4/3/21
Before cell phones
We were forced
To pick up the phone
Yes, a land line
Rotary
Push button
Dial a number
No caller ID
Crossing your fingers
That someone was home
Hoping and waiting
Just to hear a real voice
No voicemail
No using our fingers
To text a message
That was not an option
But using our fingers
To dial a number
7 digits
That we had to memorize
Remember
Phone books told us how to find
The things we needed
Address books told us
How to connect
To the people we needed
How did we ever get along
Without our devices
Easy
We called
We listened
Then hung up the phone
Until someone
Called us back
the april poems. the future is not impressed. 4/2/21
poem written for national poetry month on 4/2/21.
the future is not impressed
only God knows
the answer to this question
but if I had to take a guess
at what is beyond today
I would have to say
that the future
is waiting for us to catch up
with the present
because if the future
is anything
like our current circumstances
a place in need of more love and less hate
then history
will definitely
repeat itself
over and over again
Podcast Episode. In Honor of a Revolutionary
New Podcast Episode. Join me as I relaunch my March Thirty One Poetry podcast and kickoff National Poetry Writing Month 2021. My original poem honors a member of The Last Poets, Gil Scott Heron who passed away in 2011. The Last Poets celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2020.
the april poems. NaPowrimo Kickoff. 4/1/21. My Past Lives
Kicking off the annual Writer’s Digest Poem A Day writing prompt challenge for NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month). Here’s my first poem for the challenge, see below. I’m also adding my podcast to my blog posts, so please read and take a listen and be sure to subscribe.,
My Past Lives
Jay Z said
Allow me to introduce myself
But who am I
Really
I am the sum of
Characteristics
Of an imagined
Series of past lives
In one past life
I would have
Dined with Langston
Hung on his every word
Literally and Figuratively
For his poetry
Is my inspiration
In another past life
I would have rocked out
With Jimi
Put my hand over my heart
During his rendition
Of the National Anthem
And maybe even
Hung out
In his hotel room
Like a groupie
And in another past life
Reggae would have been
My muse
Steel drums in my soul
With Bob Marley in my ear
Whispering seeds
Of revolution
All of this
A Figment of my imagination
Of course
Because in reality
We only have one life to live
But in my creative mind
I’ve lived these many lives
Always wondering if
I was born
During the wrong era
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