Lost Day

So I didn’t write an ounce of poetry yesterday.  Why?  Because the basement flooded and that demanded my whole day…and my night was taken up by making up work I missed by staying home to clear out the basement. 

But today is a new day, with a new poem.

Flood

Myriad of variation

Tipping the balance side to side

Stand forever in consideration

Leaving none other than Nature to decide

Today’s Poem

Inside

Cold drops sink and slide

Leaving a watery train

Failed weatherstripping

Makes no apologies

But breaks impervious promises

Unashamed as the rain, on its top-secret mission,

Falls into the carpet to nest.

Goodbye March, Hello Spring

This month has been, essentially, a dry month for writing.  Either I haven’t felt inspired or I haven’t had the time…but it seems every now and then this happens, and it passes.   I wouldn’t define it as writers block because, given an idea, I can write.  It’s just that initial ideas seem to…fizzle.

With that, I think my goals for April (as far as writing goes) will include the following:

1. Write some fanfiction.  It’s a great way to keep writing even when ideas seem unsubstantial on their own.

2. Finish my 12th (and final) assignment for Long Ridge.  Within the next few days I’d like to write both versions of the story (since I don’t know which ending I like best) and that gives me the first week of April to edit and refine it, as well as to write the query letter.

3. Get back to writing a poem a day, whether it’s haiku or any other poem.  With the book club, it seems I’m only getting to go to one poetry group meeting per month…so I think it’s important to keep exercising in poetry.  I know April is a few days a way still, but why not start now?  Here’s a poem, off the cuff:

Hands

Sweep across the curling base

Rest upon the obtuse

Rotate on a central fulcrum

Measured in constant consistency

Yet always relative

Timed hands care not

For the subjective