Wilted Inflorescence

The B in LGBT. A tragic poem. Happy Pride! 😛 ~+~+~+~+~+~ Jasmine.The scent fills my lungs as I remember her blouse so close. Our piano arms rested side by side on the bus seat belts nonexistent to restrain her Flat chest that balanced a Sharp arrow to shatter my White milk glass. Her dazzling smile…

NaPoWriMo Day 29

Poem prompt: "Today’s daily resource is the online galleries of the Whitney Museum, where you’ll find artwork as varied as this fun portrait of Billie Jean King, a Frank Stella sculpture that looks like what would happen if a space station fell in love with a bridge, and this contemporary take on the classic embroidered sampler. And now for today’s prompt…

NaPoWriMo Day 20

Well, this was fun! I haven't rhymed this much in a very long time. Let's just say, I'm very grateful to my Rhyming Dictionary and Thesaurus of the Senses for bolstering my recall of words. I used an older idea I hadn't worked on yet, involving a metaphor for two people in my life. Poem…

NaPoWriMo Day 3

Poem prompt: "Today’s daily resource is the online art collection of South Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. My own art history education is woefully catch-as-catch can, and the little I know of modern art is very much focused on American and European artists. So it was a treat to browse through a collection…