love – Missives & Musings

Chippy Tea

Today we are to try our hand at writing our own poem in which something that normally unfolds in a set and well understood way — like a baseball game or dance recital – goes haywire but is described as if it is all very normal. I struggled with to keep strictly to the pathContinue reading “Chippy Tea”

Kia Hora Te Marino

Our challenge today is to write a six-line poem that has the same qualities as (from 60’s rock band MC5) Brother J.C.’s warm-up and Jane Kenyon’s poem The Shirt. Both are informed by repetition, simple language, and they express enthusiasm. They have a sermon/prayer-like quality and then end with a bang. Today’s resource took meContinue reading “Kia Hora Te Marino”