Yet another mother and child from Mary Kirkwood, we will have a throwback to our iambic pentameter sonnet and amniotic fluid haiku for this poem about pregnancy and iambic pentameter. "no STRESS, no STRESS, no STRESSThe contractions comeSeparated by the minutest minutes five. no STRESS, no STRESS, no STRESSTime comes undonePrompted...
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13 Days of Winter Break - Day 8
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This poem is set to the melody of "What Child Is This," it is called "What Day is This?""What day is this?I’m losing track.No school or work to keep me.Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+I curl on the couch sleeping. Tumblr posts written pastPost now as they were scheduledYet, I think not of...
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13 Days of Winter Break - Day 7
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Yesterday, we had some verses in an attempt at iambic pentameter, there was some discussion among staff about iambic (amniotic) fluid in pregnancy, so today’s poem is about amniotic fluid. Here is a haiku:
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13 Days of Winter Break - Day 6
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MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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13 Days of Winter Break - Day 5
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This Christmas Eve, we give an acrostic poem spelling out the title of the poem from the Christmas card:
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13 Days of Winter Break - Day 4
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What card shall inspire our poetry today, you ask? Why another with a woman and child… “Is it just me, or is there a theme. The image I see repeats it seems.A woman and child.A woman and child. A woman and child. The image below schemes, To invade all of...
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13 Days of Winter Break - Day 3
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The poems continue:
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13 Days of Winter Break
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Here is a poem to celebrate the end of the semester:
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13 Days of Winter Break - Day 2
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Here is a haiku for today’s Christmas card:
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In Memoriam 2019
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Contents: Mold | Rust | Light | Acid | Deacetylation |
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