poems from lent...

Instead of subtracting or giving up something this past lent season, I decided to add a discipline that I might not put into ordinary practice.

As I brainstormed about it, I determined writing poetry was the best option---it seems to always sit on the backburner of my creative goal list, yet I thoroughly enjoy it when I get the chance.

My goal was to discipline myself to write a poem for every day of lent, leaving me with 40 poems overall (coinciding with the 40 days of lent). I didnt quite reach my goal, but it was an interesting experiment. There were some nights when I could not think of anything to write about so I began to make lists of things surrounding me where I sat. Often, the lists began to grow into sentences and subject matter and environments........

Enjoy.

POEM 1

Sleeping bags
and sleeping kids.
Warm buzz of the flickering
television.
beer
and quiet little heads.
laying softly
stuffed in cotton and feather down.

Just below my feet
and the computer's fan
is buzzing
type, type, type,
community.
virtually miles down the
ethernet trail,
and inches from my toes.