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.
You may need to have a Gmail or Yahoo or AOL account to post in the comments section. Most of you do have Gmail or Yahoo or AOL, but for those of you that don't it's extremely worthwhile to open up one of these email accounts now! That way you've got a chance to get your work out there in the world.Today's poem or short story prompt is the word "invest."
You may need to have a Gmail or Yahoo or AOL account to post in the comments section. Most of you do have Gmail or Yahoo or AOL, but for those of you that don't it's extremely worthwhile to open up one of these email accounts now! That way you've got a chance to get your work out there in the world.Today's poem or short story prompt is the word "invest."
What I Thought True
ReplyDeleteThe noise in my head
The child's train in the amusement park
The tightness in my skull
Like a dresser moved too close to the wall
A penny on the floor that I won't pick up
For blood will spill out when bent that way
The night of my college graduation
I knew I had been the happiest here
With those friends
In this place
I thought that then
And it was true
Catherine Powers
September 2013
Copyright 2013
CASHING IN
ReplyDeleteGambling
doesn't feel like investing
but it is
You buy chips
with your time
and you place them
and some pay off
and some don't
Knowing where to put them
knowing which squares to bet
is less important
than knowing when to stay
and when to walk away
Otherwise,
the house wins
- Mike Fedel
Sept 2013