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NaPoWriMo Day 3

Charlotte Hamrick

Warrior He walks the garden path Moss, stone, stream Pauses at the apex of the bridge Fingers his inro its lacquered smoothness Rubs the netsuki thumb a perfect fit between the hare’s ears Stilled in silent contemplation of the turtle’s wisdom * Today I chose the ekphrastic prompt from The Wombwell Rainbow which I discovered via my poetry sister, Merril. Three beautiful artworks were displayed and I chose this drawing of a netsuki by Kerfe Roig, another poetry sister, as my prompt. Continue reading NaPoWriMo Day 3

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NaPoWriMo Day 2

Charlotte Hamrick

Resisting a Steel Tsunami The cloud of her hair settling in a window, the cold blue of her eyes in the Mississippi heat, a guttural rumbling fading in the sleepy noise of small town life. She was a military brat and I was a transplant from parts all over in this town where almost everyone else had been born and raised. I didn’t even ask where her ticket would take her. For months after I thought of her every day, wondered if she was living the freedom she was seeking or trapped but too proud to call for help. I … Continue reading NaPoWriMo Day 2

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NaPoWriMo Day 1

Charlotte Hamrick

Polychrome I want to snuggle into your skin, see through your eyes, tilt your nose up to the sky & take a deep  drought of your breath. Is your brain messaged by  Octopus tentacles, millions of suction cups kissing your cerebellum? Is your understanding prickled by the toes of earth’s creatures? Is your empathy colored with chlorophyll and seed? We are sea and forest sky and flesh,  we see differently, together a world made for all. * Photo by Masaaki Komori on Unsplash Prompt via Napowrimo.net Continue reading NaPoWriMo Day 1

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Bone & Keratin

Charlotte Hamrick

I imagine you in the Costa Rican rain forest peering down the magnificance of your beak, the radiance of your plumage twinkling tree-stars in the mist, your strident calls reverbrating between the breasts of mountains, rolling through lush valleys of verdant loam. As a human you would be an artist preening before a canvas, sweating blues & greens, weeping purples and reds,rolling through multi-hued sheets brushed with forested liquid, face lifted above the treetops, fingers brushing stars. *** Na/GloPoWriMo Early bird Prompt via NaPoWriMo.net Image of Jadeite Bird Pendant via The Metropolitan Museum of Art Continue reading Bone & Keratin

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NaPoWriMo 2020 / Day 3

Charlotte Hamrick

Patience

is hard to come by
When life is picking and clawing
When time is running faster
Than my my own racing heart

Knife points jump out of my skin,
intruders hiding inside me
Slicing away the softness
Leaving bone shards and steel

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This is an unfinished beginning of a poem. I’m late posting for yesterday so I decided to go ahead and put this out there. I’ve been ruminating on patience, of which I have little. Almost every night I meditate on ways I can practice patience in my everyday life. Some days I’m better at it than others. Continue reading “NaPoWriMo 2020 / Day 3”