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This poem comes from a poetry prompt given by Robert Lee Brewer at Poetic Asides. The assignment was to write a poem backwards - either numbers, or days or backwards in time.  Robert wrote a poem using the alphabet in reverse order.  Here's the result of my tinkering with the exercise:

Sdrawkcab and Forwards

Life scribed for us in a mirror
Daeh pressed up against a wall
Daisies eid and life sdne
Feeling all crazy and pu-dexim
Walking forwards, sdrawkcab gniklaw
Crawling at complete standstill
Windows...
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Here is my poem I wrote inspired by the poetry prompt over at Poetic Asides.  The theme was "Returning."

Coming Home

Brown corrugated cardboard makes a fortress in my living room

Painted porcelain packed perfectly wrapped in tissue and bubble wrap

Computer completely placed in its own over-sized box

Files upon files upon files of poems for you

For him

For life

For peace

And short stories

And philosophy papers

Stack silently in the confines of a small shipping parcel

The Beanie Bab...

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In addition to the [fiction] Friday prompts over at Write Anything, I've decided to participate in the Poetic Asides Blog's Wednesday Poetry Prompts.  This week's prompt asked participants to write a poem about something I've been through.  Here it is, in rough draft form:

“Graduate School Comps”

The light cracks in through the window

The book is in my lap

The cat is on his pillow

Taking his nightly nap

 

A pencil is my hand

And the computer screen glows

I try to keep my eyes op...

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