She's sitting in my lap playing with my Domo necklace Drooling peanut butter onto my sleeve Little panting sounds, clink, clink, crunch She's teething, "Hmm, Hmm, Abai," she laughs, jingle jingle. She smells like her lunch. She laughs when I imitate her gurgle, static, transistor radio sounds.

Writing 201: Poetry Form: Concrete Poetry – Device: Enjambment

  Originally posted 1/23/15

Writing 201:Poetry-Form Acrostic #2 An Alphabetical Truth

Comment: An alphabetical acrostic search for truth with a hallucinogenic rhyme scheme an assurance of obligation by conveying security conviction of ethics duty to protect evidence of controlled confidence finality of fidelity given freely from a faithful friend heavy handed with honor indignant of infidelity jailor of secrets keeper of confidence left over from a…

Writing 201:Poetry-Form Acrostic #1 I ate my homework

An Acrostic Haiku with Assonance and no rhyme whatsoever Anacronism Terrifies Elephant-land Eventually Comment: I'm going to have to use a sense of humor to keep me from screaming through these assignments.  Thank goodness there are no grades here.  

Writing 201:Poetry-Device Internal Rhyme

I retired my Super Mom cap for the evening The fire has been put out not as dire an incident as previously reported I swooped in the room in full costume Ready to do battle," I retorted. Comment: I can rhyme but I have a hard time adding it to other things (like form and…