Today, like every Saturday, there is no set topic. You are free to write about whatever you want.
And today, like every day, there’s a classic poem here.
The Daily Poetry Club
A poem a day keeps the mind at play.
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Every night at midnight (Mountain Standard Time), a new topic is posted. Your job is to write a poem that day that has to do with the topic. Post it as a comment under that day's blog post. Repeat the next day! Your don't have to be a great poet to join. We're definitely not...We just created a Facebook fan page!
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Recent Poems
- wryness: How beautiful Unembellished Shines the sunlight On the water. Here a flash, There a sheen. Soft flashing. The waves, The waves. Living.
- Andrew: Courage to look, I quickly turn away. The girl I love, Her heart I cannot sway.
- Russell: It has taken some time, really hours of study and preparation, but luckily a big red “F” has never been mine
- Tristan: I faintly feel my spinning wheels come creaking to a stop. To keep them going, momentum slowing, takes much more than I’ve got. A push, a prod, a smile and nod, I’ll take what...
- D. Edgar Lamp: FAILURE Fortune gathers those who know, All the seasons take their turn, Instant while the moments glow. Logic binds the rapturous burn, Urgent weather aches to go, Rising fractal...
- Meryl: If F stands for FAIL, Why does BYU use E? Does E stand for EPIC FAIL? Could that possibly be?
- Volkam: Traveling up a long winding stair I grow and learn the stairs never end but I don’t care I want to feel the struggle and the burn at times the stairs are smooth or rough my efforts...
- Tristan: They say that it ends. They say that it gets better. I don’t believe them.
- SBgiselle: High School Day by day, It is the longest thing invented. Year by year, It flies by like it never even happened.
- Meryl: I struggle to research; I avoid writing. But soon my paper will be longer than this poem.
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© 2009 The Daily Poetry Club
i write me a poem
and it turns to a verse
it’s half holy prayer
and a whole lotta curse
and i sing it to myself
when i’m walking around
it plays around in my head
it plays me into the ground
its a song about life
and a song about fear
and how they come up just
to kick you right in the rear
little words at first
plop on out of an egg
and mess around for a while
and wobble on little legs
then they leave the nest
and fly to where it’s warm
and i’m left alone
in the calm my storm
but my pen’s not a sword
it’s a freaking tank
and i’ll blow you all away
(all the way to the bank)
when the apogee of
my epiphanies sing
you’re invited to my land
the land where i am king
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Shaquille O’Neil
Don’t “get real”
Dat genie role was your best lead
A boombox wish is what kids need.
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The kids at school
Aren’t nice.
They call me
Four-eyes
Fat-face
Dum-bo
They say:
Yo mamma’s so fat
Yo mamma’s so ugly
Yo mamma’s so stupid
And they mean it!
(What I don’t get is
They don’t even KNOW my mamma!)
But I let them laugh
Because, like Mamma says,
They’ll drop out
And I’ll get A’s
Someday they’ll sit
Across from me
While we discuss
Their salary
And how because
This year was low
I have no choice
But to
Let
Them
Go
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fuzzy clouds collect
on the mountain tops, like mold
on a chocolate cake
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In a field of birdsong
Leans a small boy holding a twig,
Stooped over a sunflower.
A long watch. His mother calls
Afar, voice soft on the warm winds.
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