My poem “Urban Snack” is live in issue #7 @ Yellow Chair Review. Check it out (and others!) at Yellow Chair Review.
http://www.yellowchairreview.com/#!Urban-Snack/q4ysq/576819340cf21d10aa69a727
Category / Poetry
June PoWriMo Day #19
Raw excerpt for today:
Everything was worthless.
I was a prince. On my belly,
I tried not to stalk through
the cracks in the rocks the man
and his prey…
June PoWriMo Day #18
Raw excerpt for today:
Her whisper guided him along the banks
of the river, where the rocks cut through
her feet as she pulled the lines in, taking
her catch to her papa.
June PoWriMo Day #17
Because it did not post yesterday…
Raw excerpt for today:
After three days on the Siberian tundra,
her layers started to shed,
the child dimples returned, her voice
grew less hoarse and more like
a whisper telling a secret…
June PoWriMo Prompt #7
Images and things mean different things to different people. Take an ordinary thing like glass. The words “shattered” or “broken” come naturally with glass.
Prompt: What other words can you use with glass? Crumpled glass (in my palm) comes to mind, but what would you use with glass? Take that thought and run with it.
Quatrain.Fish Poem
I’m pleased to announce that Quatrain.Fish has accepted a short poem of mine. I will post when it goes live. If you are not familiar with Quatrain.Fish, please visit them. All poems are no more than 4 lines lines.
Brevity with beauty. Quatrain.Fish. http://quatrain.fish
June PoWriMo Day #6
Raw excerpt for day #6.
I am a July Midwest thunderstorm in the aftermath: pent up pressure awash with a welcome release.
Prince Anthology
I am pleased to announce that Yellow Chair Review’s Prince Anthology “..Only Wanted One Time to See You Laughing” has been published. One my poems is included in this anthology, “Eternal Purple Rain.”
If you love Prince (and who doesn’t?), you need to check out this anthology.
Enjoy!
JL
June PoWriMo Day #4
Small raw excerpt from “Isle of Sankos.” This poem will be a part of a larger cycle of narrative poems in the Dapania series.
The isle of Sankos knows no living man,
only those who perished on its golden
beaches after Dapania sang them
her song of longing, of passion, of a
desperate love she desired but lacked.
Two Poems: Dirty Chai
Hey Everyone!
Check out Dirty Chai’s Missed Connections! Two of my poems are featured there today: Time Out and Stew of the Dead.
Check it out!
https://dirtychaimag.com/2016/06/03/missed-connections-two-poems-by-j-l-smith/
🙂
JL
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