Category: Patricia Harris

P.A.D Day One

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2024-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-1

Ars Poetica Returns

Poetry
I don’t know if you remember, but in April I was posting daily from a poetry volume about poetry. I am going to be returning to that as one of the PAD challenges. I will be Posting it directly to the blog. Here’s today’s poem.

How strange it feels
to pick up the pen,
with the intent to write.
As if I could peel away my skin
and let poetry see the light.

Exposure of the soul
in a way that few would
understand,
leaving my pen sitting limp
suddenly in my once so eager hands.

I feel like it should not stop me
the idea that I might be misunderstood,
instead I will let flower the words
and see if I can find the art within.

Monday Poetry

Poetry

The Lore of me

By

Patricia Harris

I tried to write
the lore of me,
telling the world the truth
of my forgotten reality.

Perhaps it was written
in script too dark to read…
or maybe I wrote it carelessly
because no one sees me
honestly.


Announced changes

I am going to be doing two separate Poem a Day challenges and I am going to be doing the Fae 50k. I am going to be going for a daily habit more than the word count. The fun thing is that you don’t have to do 50k to win the Fae 50k you merely have to write daily. I am going to be trying to get as much word count as I can each day.

I Think I am going to just leave my Monday as a single poetry post for the remainder of October and figure out what I want to replace Publishing Demystified with in December.

Monday Poetry

Poetry

Sympathy

By

Patricia Harris

lost in the notes
of overwhelming sympathy,
the pages flooding over me,
I am struck by the reality
of the dreams we leave behind.

Perhaps the story we hide
is to protect both me and you,
from the truth
we rush to headlessly.


Quick question

FAQ

the November pad will be 2 poems a day for me and I have been doing well with my Drawtober posts. so I wondered if I should do the posts like that or like the current Monday /Wednesday poetry posts ?

Monday Poetry

Poetry

Samhain

By

Patricia Harris

Rolling pumpkins
glowing eyes,
decaying leaves,
admist costumery…
candy sacks in tiny hands
haunting the streets
until the nights end.

The veil is thinned
on this night of revelry,
It brings the ancestors
to weave the joy into
all that might be .


Book Birthday

Cover Image

Poetry is designed for politics. Have you read mine?

Monday Poetry

Poetry

My Wings

By

Patricia Harris

my wings were clipped
before I had grown
strong enough to fly…

so I crashed as they said I would
crawling upon the ground
trying to reach home once more …

I had to recreate my wings
from the bones of the soul
they burned within.


Monday Poetry

Poetry

I turned the page

By

Patricia Harris

As I expected the world
To be a story worth reading,
When I found that I was
Not enjoying the day…
I turned the page.

The story is going to be
One that I chose to write,
And if I am ready to with
nothing to stop me,
I turned the page.