Big Tent Poetry (7/30/10) — The Lizard King
The idea this week is to write a poem about an icon, hero or personality and what might be different. Jim Morrison is dead. I wondered what he might be about were that not the case. I leave it to you to determine how successful I was with this weeks prompt or not. In the meantime, […]
3WW CXCIX — Free Write (No Relation to Willie)
3WW rolls around yet again, like weekly clockwork and I took one look at the words and realized that they didn’t fit into poetic thoughts I be thinking, so I elected to Free Write instead. I had no idea where this was going to go once I started and was pretty surprised with what I […]
3WW CXCVIII — Tender Mercy #26
Slogging along, another in the Tender Mercy series of poems that hang together only because I believe they do… This one is inspired in part by 3WW and you can play too by visiting the site! Tender Mercy #26 Overture to aSixty Second Interval, Contemplation mounts,A Spring collection Flutters in theDisinterested breeze. An isolated victimLive at the Marquee, […]
3WW CXCVI — Damn Cardinals
No poetry this week, nor fiction, just a rant about Baseball…sorry in advance for the blatant sports theme.…but this is what was on my mind this morning and the 3WW words were perfect.… ——- I have this deeply acrid taste in my psyche this morning. The MLB team I follow, the St. Louis Cardinals, turned […]
Tender Mercy #21
Let’s go throw all the songs we knowinto the sea and blend them with just out of reachocean rhythms and time breaks singing in a resurgenthiss and lap ebb and flow as the songs we knowsliding off the sandbar slowly float out to sea only toreturn with the tides — I read the first line of this on […]

