Twitter Poetry Week 10

Day 64: Yearning

For what?
Is it Spring?
A long cold drink from the fountain of youth?
Words. Only that, and only ever
words of kindness, words
of truth.#APoemADay #poetryparty

— Experimentsinfiction (@Experimentsinfc) March 5, 2021

Day 65:
The greatest poem ever written
was one without words
and only in your eyes
reflected in mine
we are all poetry
all the lines and stanzas of the
heart
writ large across the stretched and aging vellum of the earth
on lips silenced
by beauty
bathed in light
as at a birth.

— Experimentsinfiction (@Experimentsinfc) March 6, 2021

Day 66:

At times I long to be a plant:
to me the plants seem worldly wise;
they turn their heads towards the sun
and photosynthesise.

Here I sit like a happy plant
out in the sun this warm spring day
but plant-like when the winter comes
I’ll hide myself away.#APoemADay pic.twitter.com/wAta1jxPzg

— Experimentsinfiction (@Experimentsinfc) March 7, 2021

Day 67:

I've had enough.
I've done the laundry.
I have delivered the kids to school.
Now let me bathe in the fresh cool waters
of new-imagined poetry
and raise your voice
to sing with me:
we've miles
to go.#APoemADay #IWD2021 #ChooseToChallenge2021 pic.twitter.com/zTQuX2E1nr

— Experimentsinfiction (@Experimentsinfc) March 8, 2021

Day 68

Swift-like the way you broke my heart,
or like the way the kids grew up
the way you could down a pint, and I-a half,
or drain to the dregs a stained teacup.

Swift-like our lives which float on by
contrails in ever-changing sky.#APoemADay #poetryparty @dVersePoets pic.twitter.com/eT5UbBD7rK

— Experimentsinfiction (@Experimentsinfc) March 9, 2021

Day 69:

Send healing winds to me, let them
blow clarity through all the darkened chambers of my brain
that with my heart uplifted I might see
my way to becoming something like sane:
I have some way to go:
the quest remains.#APoemADay #poetryparty pic.twitter.com/K1MCje7um3

— Experimentsinfiction (@Experimentsinfc) March 10, 2021

Day 70 #tanka

Red plasma sunset
slips through masts of sailing ships
melts into evening
all the sky’s alight with fire
my heart’s in crimson heaven#APoemADay #TankaThursday pic.twitter.com/4Wc6yunUcQ

— Experimentsinfiction (@Experimentsinfc) March 11, 2021