(a Tanaga poem)

You die again, in a dream.
I wake up to fresh pancakes
and undisturbed cirrus clouds.
I won’t bring you back this time.

Cuyahoga Library asked of poets to try the Fillipino Tanaga poetry form today, consisting of four lines of seven syllables in each line. Originally, the rhyme was the same for every line (aaaa), modern rhymes range from dual rhyme forms (aabb, abab, abba) to freestyle forms. Tanagas do not have titles traditionally.

The great unknown

I have wasted so many wishes that
shooting stars stopped looking for me.
Then I stopped waiting for them.

I care a lot less now about
the trouble outside my window,

I sit in the living room with
my thoughts and emotions.
So many reasons to be grateful.

PAD Challenge day 4 prompt asked of poets to write a 'wish poem'. 

Text(ure)

Careful what you write out.
Each word carries weight.
Not all words make it poems.
Many are subject to confusion.
Some are material to altercation.
Only a few of them make amends.


Today's prompt comes from Christina Thatcher's list. She asked poets to write a poem which included a telephone or another piece of technology. My inspiration was the smartphone and the exchanges we have over Whatsapp especially.

How I stopped writing

We visited the Red Shift once together,

do you remember?

Do you remember faltering into the darkness,

groping uneasily along walls, the sound of 

the red liquid running down the floating sink drain 

growing louder, as we moved closer?  

Cuyahoga Library, which shares some of my favorite NaPoWriMo writing prompts every year, asked  poets to write a poem that is an apology to your muse, explaining why you aren't there writing oftener, better, more clearly, passionately, universally, and/or eternally. This is it. The Red Shift is an installation created by Cildo Meireles at the Inhotim Museum.

Flow

Every day is a good day.
you open your eyes,
you step into a new world,
never the old you.

PAD Challenge - day 1 prompt