Category: Poetry
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Healing Through WAP
WAP = Word Association Poem Saturday, August 17, 2024 This is another exercise from the Rupi Kaur book Healing Through Words, which I am still so glad to be working through, however slowly. At first I scoffed at it a bit, as the word “healing” has become (well, to me, anyways) pedantic. Overused. Redundant. Insulting,…
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Mango Pits
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 For some time now, I have been working through Rupi Kaur’s book “Healing Through Words” which is essentially a collection of guided writing prompts and some instruction on and insight into her writing process. She has some very short yet powerful poems which she calls “peach pits” because you start with…
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Interrobang Poem
Interrobang Poem Cognitive dissonanceWith a twist?And a spike!Or is it a dagger?! Twisting around in the folds of my brainThe spike is vodka, or is it tequila…Clarity.Dissonant clarity.Dagger twists and opens the foldsThat I have fought so hard to keep shuttered. Victorian shuttersKeep the madwoman in the attic.They fly open from time to timeFlames and…
Interrobang Me Hard, Baby 