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Local Poets' Resposes to "Citizen Poetry" Prompts.

  We're in April, and Spring is catching up with us !   Over the past three months I have been inviting local poets to send me poems, usually in response to simple prompts.   Here follows a selection of this work - such a variety of voices and subjects! Thank you, everyone who sent me such riches - I am publishing here just my own limited selection, with only one or two poems per person.   Browse away ! I hope to extend our scope from here, recruit more poets, and try to keep up with weekly posts.   So here, to begin, is my anthology: If I have missed anyone, my apologies -.  What if we didn’t need to scintillate our dulled senses with spectacle – if ordinary miracles weren’t hidden at all, but offered: cathedrals of the forest, spires of pine and oak nearly transparent in the deepening dusk, such moments of wonder strung through our days like pearls, lit from within, waiting to be seen?   --Peaco Todd - .  Silent   silence is thunde...

Prompt for April 3rd

THE SIX WORD PROMPT, APRIL 3RD.: ADJECTIVES!         Tolerable                                  Challenging                                  Breath-taking                                  Gigantic                                  Murky                                  Endless Extra challenge - Fit these into a poem of no more than fifty words. I look forward to seeing them ! Richard

Citizen Poets: It's still snowy here!

 Citizen Poets: It's still snowy here! Not the time of year to think about snow with much pleasure? I really don't believe that we are done yet ! Five years ago I wrote this to my students: What if Each snowflake Were a hexagonal piece To jigsaw together To play the game of the universe? For this week, how about a poem which is a question, and  has to use the following words ? Scintillate Hidden Transparent Spire Pearls Deepening I hope to be ready to post poems on the exchanges and the blog promptly this week - does anyone prefer anonymity or a pseudonym ? Richard Posner