The Creativity Well

The Universe Attaches Our Loved Ones

April 03, 2023 — Poem a Day: a connection poem

Emotions

Sick love like poison Words wound — Deeper daggers Invisible Blood Fractured Bones Knitted wrong Mis stitched Scars left many times Insecure Weakness Quiet Heartbeats Cure Broken Hearts

Time.

The Challenge

April 1, 2023, started the 16th annual April Poem-A-Day Challenge on Writer’s Digest and ran until May 1, 2023. Each day during April, Robert Lee Brewer posted a poetic form, explanation, and his attempt on the Writer’s Digest website.

My Process

Woke up to the annoying internal alarm clock left over from my teaching days, I roll hopped out of bed, wheeled to my so-called workstation, and I logged on to the Net. I went to the site, turned the page into a PDF, downloaded, saved, and logged out. Took a moment to open the prompt and read. Then re-read.

Each poem has a different gestation period.

After some growth and stretching, the labor pains came — giving birth to a brand-new creation: a first draft. A work freshly born. Not edited. No perfect word choice. Raw from the creativity well.

I invite and encourage you to engage with the words.

What strikes a chord in your soul? What might make a great spin-off poem topic?

Until next time, Bonnie L. Boucek