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by Rhyssa Author IconMail Icon
Rated: 18+ · Book · Contest Entry · #1912256

a descent into poetry insanity

These are poems I'm writing for various month long challenges.
I'm not sure how sane I'll be at the end . . .
Poem # 1 the food of love 0.87k
Poem # 2 field trip in the mountains during a flash flood 0.42k
Poem # 3 dream country 0.21k
Poem # 4 cleaning house 0.48k
Poem # 5 passing in the night 1.09k
Poem # 6 for Caleb on his thirteenth birthday 0.55k
Poem # 7 the Spartoi 0.41k
Poem # 8 call me 0.60k
Poem # 9 feathers or lead? 0.78k
Poem # 10 night adjusted eyes 0.43k
Poem # 11 why I still talk to her 0.21k
Poem # 12 lace work 0.16k
Poem # 13 Portland, Oregon, May 1980 0.76k
Poem # 14 slowing down 0.83k
Poem # 15 Wednesday, midday 0.71k
Poem # 16 as I touch, the world bleeds 0.61k
Poem # 17 stasis 0.46k
Poem # 18 my new friend 0.69k
Poem # 19 the pistol principle 0.48k
Poem # 20 4:59 and thirty seconds 0.55k
Poem # 21 blue ribbon plate 0.36k
Poem # 22 this or that? 0.34k
Poem # 23 picking strawberries 0.63k
Poem # 24 like lightning illuminating the world in shadows 0.69k
Poem # 25 the promise of flowers 0.36k
Poem # 26 once upon a midnight 0.39k
Poem # 27 in her skin 0.49k
Poem # 28 food fight 0.37k
Poem # 29 binges 0.35k
Poem # 30 I thought we were friends! 0.13k
Poem # 31 for Caleb, again 0.76k
Poem # 32 one birthday afternoon 0.48k
Poem # 33 the strongest memory 0.85k
Poem # 34 adulthood 0.12k
Poem # 35 cousins 0.40k
Poem # 36 two and a half miles from home 0.86k
Poem # 37 love as a proof 1.03k
Poem # 38 April showers 0.27k
Poem # 39 imaginary friends 0.53k
Poem # 40 I want a nap 0.29k
Poem # 41 treasure hunting 0.22k
Poem # 42 fortune telling 0.18k
Poem # 43 overshadowed 0.78k
Poem # 44 laying the pollen 0.32k
Poem # 45 never bored 1.07k
Poem # 46 coming home from the total eclipse 0.85k
Poem # 47 how spring begins 0.64k
Poem # 48 wishes and lemonade 0.65k
Poem # 49 priorities 0.35k
Poem # 50 wash and wear 0.44k
Poem # 51 spring morning 0.12k
Poem # 52 after I heard my grandfather passed 0.59k
Poem # 53 at the end 0.35k
Poem # 54 hopping down the bunny trail 0.27k
Poem # 55 what's up? 0.23k
Poem # 56 black ice 0.57k
Poem # 57 Nature Walk 0.68k
Poem # 58 traffic jam 0.66k
Poem # 59 wanting 0.50k
Poem # 60 who me? yes, you. couldn't be. then who? 0.18k
Poem # 61 when it's time for the pain 0.65k
Poem # 62 learning the bees and the birds 0.64k
Poem # 63 iambic pentameter 0.17k
Poem # 64 mirrors and echoes 0.51k
Poem # 65 naptime for grown-ups 0.38k
Poem # 66 a new project 0.43k
Poem # 67 green onions 0.30k
Poem # 68 18 April 2012 0.35k
Poem # 69 designated driver 0.55k
Poem # 70 ashes on the wind 0.42k
Poem # 71 the movie was better 0.27k
Poem # 72 now I am six and forty, and oh, tis . . . confusing, true 0.83k
Poem # 73 one chapter a night before bed 0.25k
Poem # 74 the letters are chasing me! 0.21k
Poem # 75 love is 0.57k
Poem # 76 word count 0.15k
Poem # 77 the weight of ashes 0.35k
Poem # 78 you know who you are 0.20k
Poem # 79 puncture 0.77k
Poem # 80 meditation 0.59k
Poem # 81 and lead me not . . . 0.59k
Poem # 82 poem like qualities 0.48k
Poem # 83 the invisible cat 0.33k
Poem # 84 and then it was gone 0.32k
Poem # 85 . . .it's a design element 1.45k
Poem # 86 lion roars tonight 0.73k
Poem # 87 behind closed eyes 0.30k
Poem # 88 D: All of the above 0.65k
Poem # 89 finding a way 0.68k
Poem # 90 fear 0.25k
Poem # 91 what's a poem? 0.89k
Poem # 92 cycles of growth 0.32k
Poem # 93 after the music 0.62k
Poem # 94 scattered thoughts 1.02k
Poem # 95 the sound of a bass clarinet 0.65k
Poem # 96 bum-pa-di-bum-bum-bah 1.01k
Poem # 97 introversion 0.25k
Poem # 98 why our phone conversations last so long 0.90k
Poem # 99 feeling random 0.62k
Poem # 100 for Caleb, on his tenth birthday 0.68k
Poem # 101 cup of tea during a storm 0.24k
Poem # 102 our Christmas tree 0.29k
Poem # 103 our garden in the rain 0.65k
Poem # 104 How I Prepared for the Shawl I Cast-On Today 1.45k
Poem # 105 at the corner of Tarzan and Jane 0.19k
Poem # 106 a simile 0.18k
Poem # 107 Okay 0.91k
Poem # 108 at the end 0.24k
Poem # 109 Narrator and Poet 0.46k
Poem # 110 calling bird 0.49k
Poem # 111 stormy weather 1.49k
Poem # 112 silk road 1.41k
Poem # 113 To Do: Nature Walk with Niece, age 3 years 1.22k
Poem # 114 reasons 1.04k
Poem # 115 Giving into impulse 0.61k
Poem # 116 rituals of sleep 1.32k
Poem # 117 Spring 0.12k
Poem # 118 if April showers bring May flowers, what about April snow? 0.28k
Poem # 119 a healing process 0.60k
Poem # 120 it isn't raining rain, you know 0.61k
Poem # 121 hump day 0.26k
Poem # 122 miscarriage 0.28k
Poem # 123 Sijo 0.85k
Poem # 124 in search of clarity 0.29k
Poem # 125 Family History 1.62k
Poem # 126 Pioneer Road Show 0.97k
Poem # 127 choice and consequence 0.49k
Poem # 128 What's on your mind? 0.94k
Poem # 129 to the future 0.77k
Poem # 130 middle ages 0.80k
Poem # 131 a best friend 0.76k
Poem # 132 no such place 0.70k
Poem # 133 rocking chair promises 0.69k
Poem # 134 Sunny Saturdays 0.18k
Poem # 135 we will yet sing together 0.92k
Poem # 136 my changing landscape 0.79k
Poem # 137 caught in the middle of a shawl 0.69k
Poem # 138 a broken unsonnet 0.54k
Poem # 139 a difficult prompt 0.22k
Poem # 140 my father's pet robot 0.27k
Poem # 141 frustration 0.15k
Poem # 142 before the storm 0.92k
Poem # 143 Laugh 0.53k
Poem # 144 mistaken potential 1.49k
Poem # 145 arguing with the weatherman 0.55k
Poem # 146 snowdrops 0.31k
Poem # 147 a memory 0.22k
Poem # 148 the folly 0.38k
Poem # 149 diabetic ketoacidosis 0.41k
Poem # 150 at the end 0.39k
Poem # 151 it tolls for thee 1.55k
Poem # 152 Swans Reflecting Elephants 1.10k
Poem # 153 desert fire 0.66k
Poem # 154 rainstick 0.38k
Poem # 155 pneumonia 0.62k
Poem # 156 special delivery 0.68k
Poem # 157 why I left 0.45k
Poem # 158 for Caleb re: the eighth anniversary of his death 0.81k
Poem # 159 Family Reunion on Lake Powell 0.81k
Poem # 160 Pandora 0.65k
Poem # 161 why she said no 0.40k
Poem # 162 untangle 0.79k
Poem # 163 she listened 0.28k
Poem # 164 for Caleb, who would have been eight today 0.15k
Poem # 165 everywhere magic 0.95k
Poem # 166 2:37 am 0.82k
Poem # 167 in between 1.80k
Poem # 168 insomnia 0.90k
Poem # 169 theme and variations 0.58k
Poem # 170 tangible dreams 0.59k
Poem # 171 alone together 0.39k
Poem # 172 are we so different? 0.92k
Poem # 173 double knitting: Phoenix Rising 1.23k
Poem # 174 a long day 0.39k
Poem # 175 Reading "The Bells" 0.78k
Poem # 176 a complicated process 0.68k
Poem # 177 a short thought 0.39k
Poem # 178 I don't miss it 0.26k
Poem # 179 breaking a heart 0.53k
Poem # 180 Grampy 0.97k
Poem # 181 Behind and Beyond 1.25k
Poem # 182 estate sale 0.33k
Poem # 183 at the grocery store 0.76k
Poem # 184 the sane ones 1.85k
Poem # 185 new year snowfall 0.18k
Poem # 186 carnival scene 0.10k
Poem # 187 to Caleb, seven years later. 0.93k
Poem # 188 I am the wordsmith—I traffic in words 0.65k
Poem # 189 a complicated relationship 0.60k
Poem # 190 when the trees wake 0.85k
Poem # 191 now, I'm without you 0.38k
Poem # 192 half dreaming 0.21k
Poem # 193 Great-grandpa's chair 0.75k
Poem # 194 when he was dead 0.57k
Poem # 195 give us this day 0.56k
Poem # 196 in memory of lilacs 0.52k
Poem # 197 inversion 0.25k
Poem # 198 in shadow comfort 0.55k
Poem # 199 feathers or lead? 0.21k
Poem # 200 Rhyssa: her work 1.01k
Poem # 201 of tornados and butterflies 0.46k
Poem # 202 memories 0.44k
Poem # 203 particle theory 1.28k
Poem # 204 thoughts as fireflies shine at twilight 0.08k
Poem # 205 Níðhöggr 0.52k
Poem # 206 the end of the world 0.30k
Poem # 207 entering flood season 1.65k
Poem # 208 shopping lists: or why not to go to the market 0.82k
Poem # 209 the vibrations of the universe 0.34k
Poem # 210 Pickett's Charge 1.22k
Poem # 211 the pollen of spring 0.49k
Poem # 212 into the dreamscape 1.03k
Poem # 213 like a baby 0.58k
Poem # 214 my place 0.30k
Poem # 215 birdsong 0.91k
Poem # 216 the hero's journey as road trip 1.67k
Poem # 217 checking my blood sugar 0.48k
Poem # 218 aftermath 0.75k
Poem # 219 quantum entanglement 0.99k
Poem # 220 baby dragon 0.18k
Poem # 221 another reason why 0.13k
Poem # 222 butterfly thoughts 0.20k
Poem # 223 Monaco: the shining lives 0.76k
Poem # 224 Tanzania: two peaks of Kilimanjaro 1.39k
Poem # 225 Seychelles: the Aldabra giant tortoise 1.15k
Poem # 226 Singapore: Gardens by the Bay 1.34k
Poem # 227 Saint Kitts and Nevis: crossing the river 0.98k
Poem # 228 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: we're all sane here 1.38k
Poem # 229 Moldova: the hero of the story 1.35k
Poem # 230 Qatar: remember 1.08k
Poem # 231 Panama: Yellow Fever 0.86k
Poem # 232 Federated States of Micronesia: Maskun 1.24k
Poem # 233 Switzerland: childhood dreams 0.41k
Poem # 234 Spain: the mantilla 1.72k
Poem # 235 the Maldives: life on a coral reef 0.99k
Poem # 236 the sweet sorrow of parting 0.62k
Poem # 237 Liechtenstein: Swiss Invasion, 2007 1.20k
Poem # 238 my defense 0.85k
Poem # 239 to the world 0.77k
Poem # 240 weeping willow 0.61k
Poem # 241 forgetting to remember 0.65k
Poem # 242 process 0.58k
Poem # 243 the click of the wheels 0.84k
Poem # 244 searching 0.96k
Poem # 245 Andorra: the white lady 0.91k
Poem # 246 milestone accomplishment 0.77k
Poem # 247 why the balloon rose 0.97k
Poem # 248 chasing numbers 0.67k
Poem # 249 fire garden 0.22k
Poem # 250 why a string is tied around my neck 0.66k
Poem # 251 déjà vu : see again 0.84k
Poem # 252 stuff 1.03k
Poem # 253 should thy right hand offend thee, cut it off 1.25k
Poem # 254 Australia: the breath of life 1.09k
Poem # 255 the glass woman, a fairy story 2.98k
Poem # 256 my ghosts 0.51k
Poem # 257 unknitting: a haiku sonnet 0.43k
Poem # 258 Monday's Child 0.94k
Poem # 259 words like knives 0.96k
Poem # 260 child's pose 0.95k
Poem # 261 Mexico: Día de Muertos 1.29k
Poem # 262 new habits 0.82k
Poem # 263 mixed messages 0.40k
Poem # 264 the sugar dilemma 1.63k
Poem # 265 secret tigers 0.62k
Poem # 266 big white bags 0.74k
Poem # 267 did you know? 1.20k
Poem # 268 let me remember 1.03k
Poem # 269 Uzbekistan: foreign exchange 1.89k
Poem # 270 pairing off 0.61k
Poem # 271 Cuba: a thought 2.15k
Poem # 272 Trinidad and Tobago: Limbo 1.34k
Poem # 273 Republic of Macedonia: ancient memories 2.32k
Poem # 274 Sri Lanka: Sigiriya 1.14k
Poem # 275 Pakistan: the dancing girl of Mohenjo-Daro 1.05k
Poem # 276 Nigeria: some thoughts 0.84k
Poem # 277 Malaysia: Batik 1.39k
Poem # 278 Belarus: Belovezhskaya Pushcha 1.22k
Poem # 279 Iceland: Under the Northern Lights 0.98k
Poem # 280 Paraguay: Nanduti Lace 0.92k
Poem # 281 Kiribati: Greeting the New Year 0.88k
Poem # 282 Zimbabwe: Moonlight Rainbows 1.01k
Poem # 283 Japan: under the shadow 1.19k
Poem # 284 South Africa: San Rock Art 0.80k
Poem # 285 Haiti: Some thoughts on the islands 0.41k
Poem # 286 Finland: T1 2.01k
Poem # 287 the NICU 0.55k
Poem # 288 New Zealand: watching the haka 1.29k
Poem # 289 rainbow 0.16k
Poem # 290 behind every smile 0.57k
Poem # 291 Fairydust: an acrostic 0.50k
Poem # 292 the nursery chair 1.66k
Poem # 293 Equatorial Guinea: thoughts on twenty percent 1.34k
Poem # 294 when the dead walk 1.05k
Poem # 295 El Salvador: República de El Salvador 1.48k
Poem # 296 Brazil: thoughts on the Itaipu Dam 1.03k
Poem # 297 Egypt: a perspective 0.51k
Poem # 298 Bulgaria: part of the dance 0.50k
Poem # 299 Barbados: the bearded ones 0.48k
Poem # 300 China: the terracota army of the first emperor of China 1.48k
Poem # 301 Burkina Faso: Les Pics de Sindou 1.17k
Poem # 302 Albania: And What Shall I Do in Illyria 1.49k
Poem # 303 on completing a goal 1.31k
Poem # 304 the day before 1.53k
Poem # 305 Daphne's fate 1.14k
Poem # 306 stories in the sky 1.43k
Poem # 307 the life of a graduate student instructor 1.55k
Poem # 308 Bonfire Night: 5 November 2000 1.23k
Poem # 309 on knitting a scarf 2.05k
Poem # 310 some thoughts on the ending of a relationship 1.42k
Poem # 311 mirror 0.44k
Poem # 312 on fairy tales 1.15k
Poem # 313 on a lingering and absolutely, completely rational fear 1.66k
Poem # 314 meeting the in-laws 1.29k
Poem # 315 good/bad 1.54k
Poem # 316 manic Monday 0.43k
Poem # 317 peace 0.75k
Poem # 318 bleeding money 2.03k
Poem # 319 on heroes and powers 2.24k
Poem # 320 on winning a fiction contest for the university magazine 2.15k
Poem # 321 purple ink 1.06k
Poem # 322 the family knot 2.22k
Poem # 323 tornado drill 2.75k
Poem # 324 ghostly gossip 2.61k
Poem # 325 moving violation 1.44k
Poem # 326 Beads--with apologies to Joyce Kilmer 1.12k
Poem # 327 nightmare 2.30k
Poem # 328 Remember me— 1.89k
Poem # 329 (for a moment) 1.06k
Poem # 330 after the thesis 1.52k
Poem # 331 fish story 0.87k
Poem # 332 waiting for blood 2.16k
Poem # 333 insomnia 0.93k
Poem # 334 high school reunion 1.12k
Poem # 335 the labyrinth 1.16k
Poem # 336 Angel's Landing--a hike in Zion's in southern Utah 1.96k
Poem # 337 my sister's bass clarinet 1.13k
Poem # 338 spoiled 1.23k
Poem # 339 a teenage fountain lady 1.42k

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