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NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: A Quick & Dirty Ditty

Charlotte Hamrick

Baby girlMake smoke of marbleChampagne of lifeLet laughing dance toWomanly likes It’s day 12 of NaPoWriMo & I visited the online Magnetic Poetry Kit. Not bad advice, huh? My “Something Small, Every Day (or so)” series is inspired by Austin Kleon’s piece here where he says, “Building a body of work (or a life) is all about the slow accumulation of a day’s worth of effort over time.” Continue reading NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: A Quick & Dirty Ditty

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NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: Auntie

Charlotte Hamrick

AuntieSitting on the old porchwhere so many have sat,the almond tree bloomingher white flowers likeAngel wings covering the yard in a magic carpet,the aroma of our coffee and cigarettes mingling with the muskiness of the old woodunder our bare feet, you reached out taking my hand in yours, telling me something about my own self, cushioning the shock in your breezy-soft voice,leaving my mouth dry as the swirling ashes of the secret revealed Today for NaPoWriMo I used this Sensory Prompt from Poetry Today by Maya C. Popa: #1 — In “How Far Away We Are,” Ada Limón writes: I … Continue reading NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: Auntie

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NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: White Dove & Dancing Bear

Charlotte Hamrick

White Dove & Dancing BearAbove the Ferris wheel, a kaleidoscopeAt the edge of the planet, a kaleidoscope On a soft Southern nightOur eyes like stars in a kaleidoscope Our hands, our hearts tumbledand grew, colorful as a kaleidoscope Through hard … Continue reading NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: White Dove & Dancing Bear

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NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every day: Cessation Summary

Charlotte Hamrick

Cessation Summary the girl began scraping offdistressclawing it with bare fingerssteelbladeblood combinedvia passage light travelsleapsbounceseyes praise honeythis coat so privateamplifiedto rise above Off prompt today. Erasure poem created from the essay “New Technologies of Reading” by Angela Woodward in 2017 Pushcart Prize XLI anthology. My “Something Small, Every Day (or so)” series is inspired by Austin Kleon’s piece here where he says, “Building a body of work (or a life) is all about the slow accumulation of a day’s worth of effort over time.” Continue reading NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every day: Cessation Summary

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NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: All Summer Long

Charlotte Hamrick

Artwork by Jenn Zed via The Wombwell Rainbow All Summer Long Breaking the surface, we jettisonedourselves toward the skyBodies bound in summer’s long kissincandescent droplets falling fringefrom our sun bleached curlssliding smooth like your hand in mine down curves and angles to slip backin the gentle waves rippling out and out and outthrough generations of fallow fleshthat loved in this lake before usEach second lasting a lifetimeSo kindSo cruelSummer lovers still floating through timeand memory* I’m following several websites for poem prompts and decided on this artwork from The Wombwell Rainbow for inspiration today. I love the image and it … Continue reading NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: All Summer Long

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NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: You Have a Right to be Here

Charlotte Hamrick

You Have a Right to be HereWhen fires burnWhen streets are blocked by bodiesWhen universities ignore walls of hateWhen toxic voices call for deathI write of the sky, of the earth, of the seahow they persevere, how one needs the otherI write of cooperation, of empathyhow we are all human beings doing the best we canhow we can learn from each otherthrough communication & open mindsI retreat to poetryreading & writing what connects usrejecting what divides usThere’s too much hate in the world right nowI won’t participate, I won’t be influenced I’ll read & write poetryof humanness & leave harsh … Continue reading NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: You Have a Right to be Here

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NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: The Ghost of the Future You are Frightened of

Charlotte Hamrick

The Ghost of the Future You are Frightened ofButt lower than knees, she satin a peeling adirondack chair on her new Granny’s porch having recently been spirited away from everything she knew and remembered.A mountain hovered before her,above the town,a single hulk reaching for sky, looking as lonely as she but,all these years later, she wondersif it only existed within her mindand the kidnappery of her childhood. Today’s poem written to today’s prompt from NaPoWriMo.net. I tried to use all the elements suggested including this artwork by Georgia O’Keefe, a lyric from this song by Stevie Nicks, and using a … Continue reading NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: The Ghost of the Future You are Frightened of

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NaPoWriMo & Something Small Every Day: Runaway Money

Charlotte Hamrick

Runaway MoneyIn her suitcase, a secretIt simmersin this just-in-case journeydown a dusty gravel road after the last straw was tornadoed away with constant interruptions & missing the point was thrown at her with mindless powerSeven miles worth of bubbling plans& blisters is worth every painfulstep even if her destination is a dump -She can clean she can rub everything shiny, new, & free It’s been a few years since I participated in NaPoWriMo so I thought I’d combine it with my Something Small, Every Day practice. Like my practice, it probably won’t be every day but we’ll see. I began … Continue reading NaPoWriMo & Something Small Every Day: Runaway Money