Read write prompt/homework

[ezekielsdaughter]

These are on “stickies” on my desk.  Before I lose them under legitimate work, I had better post them.  They are responses to the following prompt:

readwritepoem.org/blog/2009/11/13/read-write-prompt-101-p-p-p-poetry/ 

 

(1)

Paiku

 

Fancy as pheasant
gumbo, pagan as pounding
drums is New Orleans.

 

(2)

Weep

 

You partition my
heart, when in your pain, you part
kin from their portion

 

 

(3)
Vision

 

Phantoms flee before the
penetrating might of minds
sharpened by physics

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It is a strange thing--for me--to write poetry that is not prompted by anger or depression or joy.  Just by words.  Just by request.