This blog is devoted to a select group of poets. We're starting with poets from the Ann Arbor area, but, hey, if you're from Detroit, Grand Rapids, Saginaw or the Upper Peninsula, then that is okay, too. We've even been so generous to accept poets from other parts of the USA and the entire country of Canada!
Our goal is to provide you with a prompt every day from which you are to garner inspiration and submit a poem. How to submit will be very easy. Just put your poem or short story in the comments section and hit post. You may not immediately see your post, but it is there under the "Comments" section. You may need to click on "Comments" to see your poem. It is there on another page.
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Today's poem or short story prompt is the word "essay".
Admissions Essay
ReplyDeleteI wrote on the admissions application that my goal in life was not to become a piece of cardboard. I was accepted, but the dean wrote back that it might be better to look at life goals in the positive. That is, what I would like to become rather than what I don't want to become. Still, he said, I understand your wish not to be a piece of cardboard and was glad to get a break from all the "glass is half full" essays. All the best, Dean Rader
ZOMBIES
ReplyDeleteCold coffee and
John Cougar Mellencamp and
the open laptop are
.
.
.
in the other room
Leave me alone!
I'm busy here
shooting zombies
keeping an imaginary city safe
or as safe as it can be
in the post-zombie apocalypse
Someone has to do it...
What else?
The dishes are clean
laundry done
dog brushed
grout scrubbed with a toothbrush
receipts scanned and emailed
nails clipped
cookbooks lined up alphabetically
toilet scrubbed
again
socks lined up by color
Three a.m.
I have time.
The essay isn't due until second hour
- Mike Fedel
October, 2013