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.
Today's poem or short story prompt is the word "gap".
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.
You may need to have a Gmail account to post in the comments section. Most of you do have Gmail, but for those of you that don't it's extremely worthwhile to open up one now! That way you've got a chance to get your work out there in the world.
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ReplyDeleteThe Gap
DeleteThe crack where God slips in
Where light enters
Where hope finds a toehold
A chink in the personal mold
Where that which broken
Is the catalyst
That allows the healing to begin
Catherine Powers
July 9, 2013
Copyright 2013
It morphs, this distance, at once
ReplyDeleteuncrossable chasm and too small to breathe in
except in a shallow, tight feed, the air
heavy yet thin, the pull of gravity
from body to body seeming never
to vary, let alone let up, despite
the wild range of palpable proximity.
The only lightness that comes
comes when all muscle, and all mind
behind it, loosens to a disregard
of how far things are apart, and when,
why, if, whether, suppose, good, bad,
want, want, want, want, want, want, want.
--LisaLou
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ReplyDeleteSYNAPTIC GAP
ReplyDeletethere was something i wanted to say,
i'm sure of it
- Mike Fedel
July, 2013