Backward Mutters

Tag: #poemaday

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  Consider

  The Writer’s Digest is hosting its annual Poem a Day (PAD) Chapbook Challenge. Day Twenty-two’s prompt is “a bird poem.”  When I think of birds, I think of Luke 12:24 which reads, “Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how…

  November 25, 2020
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  Meaning

  The Writer’s Digest is hosting its annual Poem a Day (PAD) Chapbook Challenge. Day Fifteen’s prompt is “a meaning poem.” You may listen to me read the poem via the player below. What could he mean,  What’s the purpose of saying “He who has no money, Come, buy and eat”? What hope is…

  November 18, 2020
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  Numbers that Count

  The Writer’s Digest is hosting its annual Poem a Day (PAD) Chapbook Challenge. Day Twelve’s prompt is “a number poem.” Saturday is World Diabetes Day. A child’s T1D diagnosis is punch of reality into solar plexus of parenting. T1D begins a ubiquitous counting into one’s life. This is an adaptation of a homily…

  November 14, 2020
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  Are You In?

  The Writer’s Digest is hosting its annual Poem a Day (PAD) Chapbook Challenge. Day Five’s prompt is “ruin.” What came out was a bit of a spoken word piece about ruin through lens of the prophet Isaiah, I think. You may listen to me read the poem via the player below. Where do…

  November 6, 2020
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  Giving Up On Myself

  The Writer’s Digest is hosting its annual Poem a Day (PAD) Chapbook Challenge. Day Four’s prompt is “(blank) myself.” By that they prompt asks you to consider how one things about one’s self, what one does to one’s self, etc…. Here’s how I took it. You may listen to me read the poem…

  November 5, 2020