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NaPoWriMo 2023 — Day 18: “Dark Spirit Moon”

a tanka

Posted byJennifer NealApril 18, 2023April 17, 2023Posted inpoetryTags:glopowrimo, micropoem, micropoetry, napowrimo, napowrimo 2023, poem, poetry, poetry community, tanka7 Comments on NaPoWriMo 2023 — Day 18: “Dark Spirit Moon”

NaPoWriMo 2023 — Day 15: “Festival Days”

these are festival days —
hot, sticky adventures
where music is the thing

Posted byJennifer NealApril 15, 2023April 15, 2023Posted inpoetryTags:glopowrimo, napowrimo, napowrimo 2023, poem, poetry, poetry community8 Comments on NaPoWriMo 2023 — Day 15: “Festival Days”

NaPoWriMo 2023 — Day 14: “Cami”

in the city that carved
her name from old
bones and crumbling
tombstones

Posted byJennifer NealApril 14, 2023April 14, 2023Posted inpoetryTags:glopowrimo, napowrimo, napowrimo 2023, poem, poetry, poetry community2 Comments on NaPoWriMo 2023 — Day 14: “Cami”

NaPoWriMo 2023 — Day 10: “He Holds Me Through It”

a choice questioned is silenced
by the sweetest kiss

Posted byJennifer NealApril 10, 2023April 10, 2023Posted inpoetryTags:glopowrimo, love, napowrimo, napowrimo 2023, poem, poetry, poetry community19 Comments on NaPoWriMo 2023 — Day 10: “He Holds Me Through It”

NaPoWriMo 2023 — Day 1: “L’Excuse”

medicine grows
from the fertile ground
to cradle deep soul wounds

Posted byJennifer NealApril 1, 2023Posted inpoetryTags:glopowrimo, napowrimo, napowrimo 2023, poem, poetry, poetry community19 Comments on NaPoWriMo 2023 — Day 1: “L’Excuse”

Haibun published over @ A Cornered Gurl

“Trying to Catch Dust in a Windstorm”

Posted byJennifer NealNovember 4, 2022November 4, 2022Posted inpoetryTags:a cornered gurl, autumn, haibun, haiku, november, pandemic, poem, poetry, poetry community, poets, published, published poetry, writing, writing community18 Comments on Haibun published over @ A Cornered Gurl

Happy Halloween!

Some of my microfiction included in the “#horrorprompt Anthology Volume 1”

Posted byJennifer NealOctober 31, 2022Posted inpoetry, ProseTags:anthology, horror, horrorpormpt, published writing, writing, writing community16 Comments on Happy Halloween!

Awaiting Autumn

I’m being as patient as possible

Posted byJennifer NealOctober 8, 2022Posted inpersonal, poetryTags:autumn, chronic illness, chronic pain, personal, poem, poet, poetry, poetry community, poets, writer, writers, writing community32 Comments on Awaiting Autumn

2 Poems: “Anne, I Understand” & “Sylvia’s Medicine”

Anne Sexton/Sylvia Plath Challenge

Posted byJennifer NealSeptember 12, 2022Posted inpoetryTags:fevers of the mind, poet, poetry, poetry community, poets, published poetry, published writing, sylvia plath9 Comments on 2 Poems: “Anne, I Understand” & “Sylvia’s Medicine”

Systems

what is broken
are systems

Posted byJennifer NealAugust 29, 2022Posted inpoetryTags:archive, old writing, poem, poet, poetry, poetry community, poets, summer, writing, writing community

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