https://poets.org/national-poetry-month/poem-your-pocket-day I started doing this in 2012 and it's always fun (for me, anyway)
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Billowing clouds swirl below While a pale yellow sunlight fringes the horizon. The fury of last night’s storms Upended our travel plans
Here lies Rob Harris He once drank a lot of beer Then he gave it up
There are words trapped inside you and they’re waiting to come out. If you don’t try to release them you’ll always have some doubt. Could they have made a difference
She enjoyed 96 years of luxury and privilege far beyond anything we could ever imagine. Now that her time is up
Shut up and drink yer beer whatever label it might be. Doesn’t matter who else drinks it or if they can stand to pee. What’s inside your heart counts mo…
Andre Braugher’s dead While Clarence Thomas lives on. Death picked the wrong guy!
While the Speaker’s chair sits em… the entire Congress remains immobi… The world looks toward the United… and finds nothing but disfunction. How can we presume to lead the wor…
From the early 1980s when he won the NCAA tournament with a jump shot to NBA championships an Olympic gold medal
Attending Catholic schools as I did for 13 years instills certain ideas into a pers… The nuns and lay teachers assigned us all a Conduct grade
As I understand it, here’s what a… First, select the best words for s… Then bind them together with an ir… Tweak them as needed, to make the… And turn them loose, so the world…
Whenever I hear that someone has… the first thing—and often the only… I want to know is how old they wer… Someone older comforts me because I feel like I still have some tim…
Trump styled himself as “the fucki… Meaning he could do anything he wa… To remain in power, whatever the c… He dispatched an armed mob to our… To overturn a fair election and se…
COVID’s still with us Despite its "19" title It’s not yet passe
Since April is National Poetry M… (#NationalPoetryMonth) perhaps this is the best time for writing Zip Odes to release my creative impulses.
Supporters of the former president who pack his rallies swallow his pronouncements whole and believe there was some “great”… that can be attained again