Intuition

My gut

Smarter than me

Tells me so

Before I see

© 2011 by Tammy Newman. All rights reserved.

In response to Magpie Tales picture prompt this week. Also contributing to One Stop Poetry, Free Verse poetry. My kinda thinking.

Trying on a Ballad

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He's addicted to affirmations
She to digs of guilt
Stepping stones eggshells breaking
This the life they built

© 2011 by Tammy Newman. All rights reserved.


This week the One Stop Poetry Form is a ballad. I only had time this week for one stanza...more to follow next week. Also, I'm doing a workshop on using poetry to improve your technical writing. Would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions for activities.

Running off This Tuesday Drain

Drowning in my own refrain
I can't shake it haunting me
Running off this Tuesday drain

Chin held high total feign

Right left jab smartly

Drowning in my own refrain

Pounding treadmills burning reign
Holding onto the lock box key
Running off this Tuesday drain

Racing round my own chicane
Limb and organ form chassis
Drowning in my own refrain

Finding solace in the pain
Tears and sweat bead salty
Running off this Tuesday drain

Fists extended made neuvieme
I am made maraging
Drowning in my own refrain
Running off this Tuesday drain

© 2011 by Tammy Newman. All rights reserved


My second attempt at a Villanelle for One Stop Poetry. Also tossing my hat into the Potluck poetry at Jingle Poetry.

Villanelle First Attempt

Writers block for this refrain

Learn about form Villanelle

Time to write a second  refrain

A line to rhyme with each refrain

A line to rhyme with villanelle

Writers block for this refrain

Digging deep creativity reign

Writing stanzas not very well

Time to write a second refrain

Can you tell a work by name?

A title of an evil belle

Writers block for this refrain

Practice is the perfect feign

Line by line this villanelle

Writers block for this refrain

Time to write a second refrain

Learning about a form called Villanelle. It's suppose to be rhythmic, which admittedly does get lost when you repeat the exact word instead of rhyming it. To learn more about the form, check it out on One Stop Poetry.

Untitled

Self portrait 

Shoveling Zen
In my driveway
Beginning-less end
Chasing flakes formed desire

Saving a quarter
Spending my time
Dispensing justification
No answers satisfy

Seeing while sleeping
Waking eyes blind
Midnight scars reflection
In morning sun rise

Puzzle pieces choosing
Not needing to rhyme
Knitting loopholes for laces
Life's wellspring fortify

Pressing boundaries

Starching the lines

I discovered 

Myself

Missing me

© 2011 by Tammy Newman. All rights reserved


Something I have been working on and feels suited to the music posted on Friday Poetically at One Stop Poetry. Check out great inspirations created there.

Second Haiku

I mean what I say
But not as you hear me now
Spring understanding

© 2011 by Tammy Newman. All rights reserved


My second attempt at a haiku as I learn from the creative individuals at One Stop Poetry and inspired by this week's Magpie.

Love Lost

Love lost is
Better than
Never found
All the better
For it having been

Walking this
Tightrope of
Hope
Sleeping with
The memory

Grieving agog
Draped from
Rye and Reality

© 2010 by Tammy Newman. All rights reserved.


I've posted this on One Stop Poetry. Check out their site for really great pieces of work.

Music Inspiration

Spinning twirling
Swooning and sway
Skirts held high
It's a wedding march
Walking to her husband

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Slowly and confidently
Seeing him before her
Gleaming her glory
Light on her toes
A tune recognized
But not clear in her mind
She's been here before
Returning to love lost
Finding home in what was once familiar
Finding refuge
In a music box
Twirling
Swirling
Sway


© 2010 by Tammy Newman. All rights reserved.
 
This was an interesting exercise for Moondust Writer's Thursday at One Stop Poetry: free write to a piece of music and see what is inspired.  Editing stops when the music stops. 1st 1/2 of December by George Winston