NaPoWriMo - day four

For our children, and our children’s children, and our children’s children’s children, and our children’s children’s children’s children, and our children’s children’s children’s children’s children, and our children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children, and our children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children, and.

NaPoWriMo 2025 - day three

NaPoWriMo 2025 - day two

you loved women
you loved books

you lost yourself
in both

the knowledge of bodies
a body of knowledge

this story we dive into
opening it along the spine

touch both sides
every surface a door

inside, outside
left, right

tell me where
to put my hands

how to hold
the book of your body

how to fold
myself into you

a confession
a new myth

NaPoWriMo 2025 – day one

the fool says
in his heart
there is no God

the fool says

in his heart

there is a God

i was a fool
for love and so i remain
a fool

i have said

so many foolish things

i regret still

so many foolish things
done in secret
in my heart

in my mind

every foolish word

spoken or not spoken

in my mind
every body
that ever fooled me

believing

i knew the truth

such a fool

falling fully
into every
embrace

so full

of foolishness

this heart

so fully
convinced
of every word

still so foolish

and still

not yet full

National Poetry Month 2025!

April will be here soon, and with it National Poetry Month (or #NaPoWriMo)!

Once again, I will embrace the challenge of starting (and finishing) a poem every day.

In Canada, the League of Canadian Poets has chosen "Family" as the theme: 

Celebrate National Poetry Month 2025 using the theme FAMILY in its many forms: found and chosen family, birth family, and family that defies categorization.

This April, turn to poetry to celebrate, cherish, mourn, critique, and explore the myriad bonds that family forms in our lives. Parents, pets, friendships, soulmates, siblings, plants, and beyond: the League invites you to examine the shape of family in your life now, to witness the intergenerational impact of ancestors, and to consider the role of family in generations to come.

In America, the Academy of American Poets doesn't have a theme, but the poster includes a line from "Gate A-4" by Naomi Shibab Nye: “This / is the world I want to live in. The shared world.” A similar -- or "family-adjacent" -- idea, perhaps.



Perhaps you'll join me?

Regardless, there are, of course, many other people all over the world participating and you can find out what they're doing at NaPoWriMo.

I hope you'll follow along, share your thoughts, make suggestions, or even offer up challenges!