Category: Patricia Harris

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.

Pad challenge Day 3

I always have at least one day when the prompt doesn’t work for me. I have a folder of saved prompts for that purpose. today the folder was helpful. the prompt is : when the wind calls

Ars Poetica April 3

Poetry

As the ink flows
my mind starts to grow,
pushing poetry on the page
to weave the life into a stage.

writing poetry
for no other reason
than I can,
so time to put
pen to page again.

April PAD challenge Day 2

the prompt can be found here

Ars Poetica April 2

Poetry

each syllable drips to the page
setting words to hearts ablaze,
penning poetica is both art
and passion sincere.

I believe that I will pick up
my pen and drop the rhyme
I love so dear.