Today's gem is "We were climbing up" by Samuel Ace: https://www.tsqnow.online/post/we-were-climbing-up
Nature feels like such an apt way to write about inevitabilities. And threat that is beautiful. And so many things – hell there's a reason we have an entire pastoral subgenre of poems right?
Today spend some time in nature. Write a hike, a swim, a mountain just out of eyesight from your window. Bonus points if you can include an inevitability in the poem.
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