Today we are reading "Daytona 500" a fantastic piece that elevates the beauty and grace of small, mundane joys and kindnesses.
https://poets.org/poem/daytona-500
We're keeping it simple today: write a poem that unabashedly glorifies the small mercies our lives give us. Because sometime that is all that keeps us alive. Consider how the tenderness sits against the equally mundane cruelties, how that makes it even more precious to behold.
Our final prompt this year comes to us from Cameron Awkward-Rich, and his iconic poem, "Meditations in an Emergency" https://www.splitthisrock.org/poetry-database/poem/meditations-in-an-emergency Ther
I am obsessed with the sonics of this poem. You so clearly see the musical influence, not just in the referential lines, but in how the sonics form the logic of the piece. https://poets.org/poem/ride-
Today is a gorgeous reflective poem, "Taharah." https://poets.org/poem/taharah This piece deals with the idea of the afterlife, not in terms of heaven or hell, but in terms of thelife our body has aft