I write two kinds of poems. The daily poems are first drafts. The others I try to improve and I post some on this site.

Ideas for poems (and for everything else) pass quickly, and my notes are usually insufficient to reconstruct ideas or inspiration. When I try to use notes, I either loose the true, deeper concept of the poem, or I can’t decipher what I wrote. Thus, I often write out a more complete, but still unfinished and unpolished, work before it flies off like a lost sock.

At the start of May, I was burned out after April’s effort and I struggled to recoup my writing rhythm. I did no Limericks this month as I had hoped, but I’ve not given up.

There once was a lady from Texas…

Here are the titles for May’s 31 daily poems.

1. No Pass Given
2. They Are People Too
3. Effort
4. Now
5. Goodbye, John
6. May
7. Little Blue Circle
8. Walk in Circles
9. Off-key Birds
10. The Charge of Thoughts
11. The Birds Meet
12. Thanks, Moms
13. Drunk Poets
14. Library Thoughts
15. By Saturday
16. House Guests
17. Dawn of Promise
18. Why is it Like This?
19. After Midnight
20. Retired Too
21. Yes, I Drink
22. Too Much Nothing
23. Channeling Chinaski
24. Euphemistic Bull Shit
25. Man Up
26. Little Mocker
27. Monday Morning
28. And…Um, but: whatever
29. Ain’t It Funny
30. A Rare Cat
31. Waiting

Have a wonderful and inspired June.

Bill

Looking back to May and forward to June is looking both ways.
Mind the gaps, the deep ones can be dangerous
and the shallows hide interesting secrets.
Live, love, and dance; I’ll join you.