From my Mask Series

 From my Mask Series.

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From My WIFE series

I love the idea of ents (tree like beings) and love having this speculative element to my wife series.

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GIRL

 

My speculative fiction short story, in the new anthology For those Who Dare to Dream, is about black girl magic in Queens, NY, my homage to my homegirls. This microacrostic and the AI's response to it, reminded me of The Four ( the story's title).

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Child, come see

 The Poetry Vending Machine is decorated with a flower garland designed by me for it and with poetry magnet words. This is yesterday's lyric adorning the chute flap. 

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AFTER THOUGHT

Loved the prompt for today, these are the answers to the word questions re arranged.

 afterthought 

a shredding veil
hat cups  

pregnant absence

earth blood dripping
dry pungence

tape measure is a 

change agent
this blue sneeze

full belly lugging light

That Small Field in Belgium for Goran Lowie

That Small Field in Belgium

 for Goran Lowie

 

vocabulary floats concepts 

modern

feels an imaginary world 

that has become an example 

2 various gifts:

black star seed

bottles with bones in a river

a tower of ice

a mirrored universe

unborn planets

a star child

stimulates imagination concretely

remains, gives poems 

something better 

to stay closer, to try 

to represent 

a more idiosyncratic world 

 

an erasure of a rejection

Akua Lezli Hope

National Poetry Month April 2023 Begins

Creating 30 poems in 30 days again -- not hard to do, just hard to do well.

Will accompany each with an image, made using words from the poem.

 April 1, 2023

lights flicker

darkened day 

song of wind as train     

rumbling around  my walls

in fierce embrace

the dings and dongs

of machine's misgivings reset

and now, past 

destruction's fearsome possibilities

sunlight slashes through slatted blades

of blinds

Akua Lezli Hope