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April PAD challenge Day 8

the prompt can be found here

Ars Poetica April 8

Poetry
Paint the page
pen the words
poetry in heart 
put to page.

write what the soul
needs to say 
for no other reason 
than poetry must be.

April PAD challenge Day 7

did not like the prompt today. it came from my prompt pool.

Ars Poetica April 7

Poetry
perhaps the dedication

to the art of writing poetry

comes with a certain mindset.



For not all understand

the flowing freeness 

of the verse,

the delicious structure

of the form.



And even amongst those

who do write criticism 

is rampant still.

April PAD challenge Day 6

did not like the prompt today. my kid suggested this one.

Ars Poetica April 6

Poetry
As the ink flows

the poetry is lighter than prose.

writing poetry

seems to release 

emotional turmoil 

that prose does not.



though I enjoy the pen

lifting for prose 

poetry is the release

I so often need.

April PAD challenge Day 5

the prompt can be found here

Ars Poetica April 5

Ars Poetica April 5
Poetry
For though I had not written 
in a score of days, 
the pen seemed to have  
a life of its own as I wrote 
in a complete haze. 

Poetry flowed loosely 
from my mind as if I had  
breached a dam at last. 

the pen and I were 
joined as one, 
and I myself  
found poetry done.

April PAD challenge Day 4

the prompt can be found here

Ars Poetica April 4

Poetry

the ink will dry
              faster than
tears fill the ocean.

writing for art
             feels better than
writing for emotion.

so I think I
             will write my poetry
for sake of poetry.

removing the weight
              of love, hate,
joy, and sorrow.