Thanks!

Thanks to Ariel for organizing this, and thanks to all of you for the poems you've shared. Participating in the project has been stimulating and energizing, and I've enjoyed following everyone's work over the course of the month. See you next year...

another year, another may day

Hey all,

Thanks again for participating in year five of the May Day Poetry Project.

It's always good to see what people are working on - and working through - over the course of the month.

I didn't meet my goal of posting a poem a day this year but I'm pleased with the baker's dozen of poems I did write and was ESPECIALLY pleased at being able to get such good feedback so quickly.

I hope to see some/all of you next year!

Yours,

Ariel

p.s. Please feel free to post if/when poems that had their genesis here are accepted for publication...

June. It's the new May.

Well I'm all tapped out. A few in "draft" that I managed to finish off, buried down there sad and alone. I wrote my crow narrative out, it's not really poetry but oh well. I suddenly have a vision for a manuscript based on a few of these that I think would be epic if I could get it done quickly enough.

This was great. I loved the crows, the French sur la lune, the boxing, the Edisons, the letters, the Yukon, Ellie and Jay, the little green man although he only showed up once, and nature in all nature's glory.

I'm sure I missed listing things I loved.

This pushed me to write lots and regularly - very helpful to read other works, and give/receive feedback.

Thanks Ariel for organizing this. And thanks to all the rest of you for showing up, in-putting, and putting out :) I will miss you all.

win


you’re too shy to howl
at fluorescents in the locker room,
and besides, don’t have the breath

just inch jeans up sticky legs, towel hair,
watch the rest of the fight card with one eye –
the other focused inside the skin
of your adrenalin, surveying change

À la prochaine...

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The 31 days of May have come and gone all too quickly once again. Thank you all so much for sharing your voices as well as your ears! I am a better reader and writer for this safe haven called May Day. Et toujours, vous m'aidez . . .
Have a wonderful summer!
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Once Upon My Porch

Planting day is either soggy gray
or wavy hot with all the water
dried up in the plant saucers.
Too wet before lunch, we took
a ride, like when Goldilocks’ bears
took a walk thinking it would
fix the porridge,
but that was a cold mess.
Either way I’m getting nothing potted
and the baby larkspur sprouts
nodding floppy pink and blue heads
are wasting in their black plastic
four-pack cradles, crinkly,
in serious need of a change before
the blazing day is out
and my fumbled delays
leave everything wet
sliding downhill
into the growing
compost heap.

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Thanks for all the good writing this month. I've been off celebrating G's birthday but wanted to get back for the last day. All the comments and help have been most appreciated. It's been good to see this project growing and the ways it pushes my writing.

Apologies

I apologize for falling off the map here, I have been so incredibly busy this month I just haven't had any time at all to write more Crow poems. I've been far to busy rewriting the rest of the novel when I have any spare time at all. It's been much, much busier than I ever expected and quite stressful. I'm going to write those poems but I'm just so far behind, it's a lost cause for May obviously. If this site is still running over June, I'll post them in spurts over the next two weeks, as I also catch up on reading other people's poems. So my May was a failure but I'm glad to see you've all been kicking my ass, poetry-wise!