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December Dailies – Day 18 – Clogyrnach doesn’t lend itself to a clever title…

For my birthday I really wanted to sleep in and be lazy all day. As such, this poem, a Clogyrnach, is not my favorite poem but it fits the form. I think it could probably use some work, but we will get to that another day.

I actually wrote quite a bit today, but nothing felt “publishable” at this point. maybe soon.

So here goes a Clogyrnach:

Untitled Clogyrnach

Waking up to a bright new day
Have lots to do and things to say
Breathing into life
Sharp words like a knife
Cut through strife
A new way

©2021 Tim Geoghegan All rights reserved. 

Cheers!

December Dailies – Day 17 – Tired ideas.

I am tired. It has been a long week. I am going to bed and this is what I have on the page for today.

The rain, falls in the doorway...
the opening through which I peer 
into the vacant yard, void of life
filling up with wet and miserable gray

Cheers…

December Dailies – Day 16 – Deconstruction

Sometimes I write a poem and after sitting with it for awhile I rip it up and see what I can salvage…

This is a poem that WAS finished, but NOW is being deconstructed to be remade into something new and hopefully better.

Also, this is what you get when I lose track of time, get tired and need to do something. A deconstruction of a finished poem.

Tear it down...

I remember 
Walking in the sand and sun.
Had I considered your lovely face


the reality Looking  
In my mind with a happy smile

Back then I never considered
they never end.heart

Now looking back I wonder how
Those times might end so soon
Maybe it would have been different.

In the darkness
you stroll out of my life 
when You were good for me 
but was I for you?
But I continue Happily 
And so it seems we’ll never know.

 to remember.
think on           our moments.
 light       at

Laughing on a rainy afternoon

©2021 Tim Geoghegan All rights reserved.

Cheers!

December Dailies – Day 14 – If you call I will answer…

Earlier in the week I was reading about the idea of call and response poems and songs. There are apparently forms of poetry designed around the idea of a call and a response two characters, perhaps even two poets…

I think it would be fun to write a few call and response poems with another poet. If you are interested in playing around with that idea with me… leave a comment.

So, without following anything prescribed with regard to form, I give you a call and response poem like thing. I think it can get better…

Wakeless waltzing.

I often dream…
we dance
well into the night.
I wake… and feel
The constant dragging,
lingering, longing…

Our dreams are alike
Yours and mine. 
The time we share
in the dark...
Dancing until dawn
while holding on. 

©2021 Tim Geoghegan All rights reserved

Thanks to those of you who responded directly about enjoying the blitz or other poems. I appreciate the notes.

Cheers!

December Dailies – Day 4 – Nonet of my poems are quite like this.

Ugh. Some days it’s hard to get anything done… today was one of those days. I chose to do a nonet which is a poem that begins with a 9 syllable line and each proceeding line has one less syllable until the 9th line which is one syllable. It seems like it should be easy, right?

Not so much. For today:

Untitled Nonet

He saw his future there in her eyes
clear skies and sunny afternoons
walking along mountain trails
dancing in the starlight
always arm in arm
until the day
she left him
alone
done.

©2021 Tim Geoghegan

Cheers!

Day 31 – Hay(na)ku – Two ways, several times.

Well… That’s about the end of it. I hope you enjoyed some of these. I’ll decide what to do next shortly. You can expect a post at least once a week, maybe more.

So, tonight I finish the challenge with this:

Writing 
new poems
all this month.

It has been
a challenge
daily,

but 
I think
it went well.

Some folks commented
others just 
read.

Regardless
I’ll likely
do it again,

Or maybe I’ll
just keep 
writing.


hope you
will stay tuned.

Please go subscribe
if you
haven’t.

Wishing
you a 
Happy New Year.

Thanks for coming
along with
me.

Copyright ©2019 Tim Geoghegan, all rights reserved.

Cheers!

Day 26 – Samonka

Samonka is a poem that combines two tankas written as love letters to each other. It’s sort of like a call and response I suppose. Perhaps an hour isn’t enough time to really get into these. I think it would be especially interesting if friends or lovers wrote a Samonka together…

Here’s what I got all by my lonesome:

Would you still love me
If I couldn’t remember
who you are to me
and sat talking about things
that have no significance?


I will love you, Dear…
no matter the circumstance.
I know who you are
when all else is uncertain.
I know that you have loved me.

Copyright ©2019 Tim Geoghegan, all rights reserved.

Cheers.

One Sure Chord is back…

After a year(ish) hiatus… I’m back, just in time for December Dailies. For December, I’ll be writing a poem (or something) each day. I hope you will enjoy and participate. I am working on the blog pages and appearance as I have time so things may change here and there… Let me know if there is something missing or if you see an error… I’ll fix it.

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