#30poems30days

[survivingthemic]

THROWBACK TO 2020 writing promptd (scroll down) (2021 prompts @survivingthemic on Instagram) --- #StayInAndWrite with @SurvivingTheMic! Prompt No. 8 begins with a quote: . "It is okay if all you did today was survive" illustration and quote by the brilliant @liberaljane . REFLECT: Self-preservation is a revolutionary act. How do you survive? . WRITE: Write a poem that describes something simple, mundane, restful, or recharging from your day? . Prompt © @themojdeh / @afronautlab / O.W. / #SurvivingTheMic . #SAAM #NationalPoetryMonth #saam2020 #30poems30days #30for30 #SurvivingSomething (at Chicago, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-v9SHUBacr/?igshid=1tmwcf3trw3my

[ohtheplacesblog]

NEW Podcast Episode. In honor of National Poetry Writing Month, Day 1 writing prompt from Writer's Digest, Introduction Poem https://anchor.fm/marchthirtyonepoetry/episodes/Poem--My-Past-Lives-NaPoWriMo-eudets #30Poems30days #NaPoWriMo #poetry #poetrypodcast #writing #poetsofinstagram #IGPoetry #poetsofcolor #instagrampoetry #communityofwriters #instapoetry #PoemADay #WritersDigest https://www.instagram.com/p/CNXlfKaBuNM/?igshid=1pdia6mvsqk91

[poetryuhfindsaway]

Adjusting

At the other end, we’re startled

to hear the sound of laughter.

The man says, “I went back

to the toilet paper,” laughing.

“Now you know what happens

from trying to get a leg up

on the situation. But if you keep

a sense of humor...” Remember

what happened. Remember

for the rest of your life.

Process: Erasure

Source: Crichton, Michael. Jurassic Park. New York: New York, 2015. 270. Print

[lolzcollz]

[rouletteweekend]

Breaking Your Own Heart (NaPoWriMo 2018-2)

Breaking Your Own Heart #poetry #poems #NaPoWriMo #30Poems30Days

I keep breaking my own heart every time I run my hand across his chest and lay it on his heart to see if it’s still beating. I want him to look at me at 9am, the same way he does at midnight through a shot glass

You keep breaking your own heart every time you notice how his fingernails show his true anxiety but you memorize how his hand looks holding on to yours for relief anyway because you…

[gulabjewman]

7 anger

I can't stop being angry and it's starting to grind my teeth at night. I have heard about shootings and children in sentences together all too often. I have heard about budget cuts for years, grew up in a town that would rather buy football uniforms than new books, let alone art supplies, but for desks and teachers to be a commodity... it hurts a whole different nerve.

but there is still money for the guns, right? still time to arm civilians, but not to hire trained professionals to protect them, right?

I keep hearing people in my town complain about the water about the weather about their beachfront property and their BMWs and their fucking lattes.

I keeps hearing privilege knocking on my neighbors' doors but not one of their happy little asses will answer as though it isn't their own God knocking hoping they won't have to admit it if they can ignore it.

The weather, the failing economy, the tanking chain restaurant industry, and the disinterest in taking out mortgages is SURPRISE not the fault of millennials or even that of avocado toast. Mother Nature is tuned in to this episode of history, so she's probably fucking pissed off, too. Why the fuck should you get to have legitimate seasons when the men you assholes seem to repeatedly vote in to office are the ones who argue legitimacy of sexual assault while repeatedly raping the planet?

The hole in my head where there used to be a raw, cavity-cratered tooth sends rage into my skull daily but that headache is nothing compared to watching people divide themselves over social media and social justice as though they should be mutually exclusive as though we had a choice on the matter for much longer.

is it possible to stop being angry? how can I focus more and breathe? I wish the hostility came to a point that it could give way to anything but fists of riot rhythm that it could be something I throw into the passenger seat and speed around with mindlessly until it had all flown out of the windows but this is not just mine anymore this is Les Miserables, a revolution displacing the bourgeois the casualties aren't televised or tweeted they aren't heard about until all we have is paper.   

I'm still angry. The water is enema-perfect, folks. Quadruple filtered. So pristine you could baptize Satan. A latte and a coffee aren't the same beverage, either. Even Satan knows that.

I can't stop being angry I don't know why you aren't too

[unscriptedconfabulationmn]

Lover, I am worried I don’t see myself in your eyes anymore I fear, Are you beginning to look at someone else?

m.n.

[madtuck]

I didn't want #nationalpoetrymonth to end, so I waited to post 30 of 30 #30poems30days #readyforlexpomo #juneisaroundthecorner

[inkinthedusk]

I was two days late for this #30poems30days initiative, so uploading 2 scribes today:) Hope to share 2 more in a day in the upcoming days. 11/30 National Poetry Month ************************** Writhing out of this book Whiffs of herbs and dark ink spells Taking sparks of frisk towards me, as my soul screams in rapturous swings of thee The fibres of my skin thrust ridges of summits Still in truth paralysis, you and I embossom the other's nemesis. -H #nationalpoetrymonth #poetry #poems #words #writing #scribe #yourstory

[ohtheplacesblog]

It's National Poetry Writing Month! Yay! Thank you to @writersdigest for providing the #30poems30days #WritingPrompts for the Poem A Day Challenge. Today's theme: A New World. Share your poems here #poetry #instagrampoetry #communityofwriters #poetsofinstagram #micropoetry #NaPoWriMo #PAD2020 https://www.instagram.com/p/B-dFaDnB-tr/?igshid=62sj2f247ds4

[jeffaintshityet]

“Never Let Go” #nationalpoetrymonth #day17 #poetry #jalfredpoetry #igpoetry #spilledink #wisdom #poem #slampoetry #writersofinstagram #poetrycommunity #30days30poems #30poems30days

[paparazzipoetry]

Poetry Podcast. My Past Lives

NEW Podcast Episode. In honor of National Poetry Writing Month, Day 1 writing prompt from Writer’s Digest, Introduction Poem https://anchor.fm/marchthirtyonepoetry/episodes/Poem–My-Past-Lives-NaPoWriMo-eudets #30Poems30days #NaPoWriMo #poetry #poetrypodcast #writing #poetsofinstagram #IGPoetry #poetsofcolor #instagrampoetry #communityofwriters #instapoetry #PoemADay #WritersDigest

[lolzcollz]

[madtuck]

28 of 30 #nationalpoetrymonth #30poems30days

[ohtheplacesblog]

Listen to my latest podcast. Poem: 45 & adulting. #nationalpoetrymonth #30poems30days https://marchthirtyone.wordpress.com https://www.instagram.com/p/BvwGU1Hgzdj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=l5pmez15e1oc