PotW #116
1.15.26 | Two poems
Endnotes
Happy new year! I hope you have been well, and I’m sorry for not reaching out—I tend to do that when I get busy. Since my last post in October, I’ve been writing and reading and grading and walking and moving and flying and driving and dancing and gaming and sleeping and laughing and playing and thinking and cringing and despairing and finding hope in simple pleasures and talking and avoiding my phone whenever I can and running and lying and breathing and getting up again. How about you?
Today’s poems are ones I put together yesterday. A musical friend asked if I would be down to swap some words for his notes; at best, they might become a song, or, at less best, it could be a fun experiment.
I tend not to care about rhyme in my poems but I felt the need to try for any song to be possible. And the other poem was one that I had written differently in my notes a while ago that I applied some light edits and line breaks to. Though I think of these as two poems, they do seem to live together. Thematically, literally, wantingly. That might be enough to make them one.
If you are looking for a writing prompt, try this: find two things you wrote and bring them together. A grocery list and a text. An email and an essay. A diary entry and a movie title. What happens when they are side-by-side? How do they communicate?
Unclearly,
Ricky