Free Verse
And Many More…
🎶 I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling forty-two… 🎶 Wait. That’s not how the song goes. My birthday is Sunday. Mother Nature has been kind, and I’m not afraid of the number. After thirty, milestones jump decades until your sixties. Assuming that I’ll make it to at least eighty, I can’t help but feel like this version of me is an equator, navigating the middle latitudes of existence.
By Laura Roodenburg5 months ago in Poets
Winds of Change
INTRODUCTION I wrote this poem after a long stretch of years that changed me in ways I never expected. COVID, kidney disease, surgery, almost dying, all of it reshaped my body, my voice, and the way I move through the world. I’m not the same woman I was before 2022, and I don’t pretend to be.
By Vicki Lawana Trusselli 5 months ago in Poets
POETS
This is another of my poems that I left marinating. It has been a few months, and I looked it over and decided to publish it. I made a couple of edits-a word here, an add there then I had CoPilot analyze it for me and this was it's core takeaway- "This poem is about the absurdity and holiness of being a poet — the ego, the doubt, the ritual, the loneliness, the hope — all wrapped in a voice that knows it’s both clown and prophet. You’re not just describing “a poet.”You’re describing the condition of making meaning when no one asked you to."
By Victor Mendez5 months ago in Poets
