Kerry is hosting at Toads. Greetings to all! Today is the day we put the “mini’ back into the Sunday Mini-Challenge, and return to the option of form poetry. The object of this challenge is to write a poem in no more than 10 lines (but you may write in fewer than 10 lines all the way down to a single American sentence). Choose your own form or write in free verse, if preferred.
This weekend, our frame of reference is “Uncomplicated Things” – from the second line of the poem, The Moon, by Leonard Cohen. I look forward to reading a number of short poems, from Saturday through to Monday. The link does not expire, so please feel free to write more than one poem, and a return to comment on poems linked later would be appreciated.
I am going with an American sentence this morning. I didn’t know that until I finished writing. Funny huh? This may appear complicated. It is not.
from here i look outward
don’t see my face
but am aware that i look
Ha! Yes, we are least familiar with our own faces.. funny that.
Being aware sometimes complicates things…but not your words!
Anna :o]
I wonder if I am really… it takes some focus to be aware of one’s face.
I’m always surprised if I take a picture and can see my reflection somewhere in it. Nice observation, Paul.
Love this. Struggling to look at parts of my face and my past lately. Filters and all the metaphors haha.
Hey Paul, I think you need a mirror to see your face. Just saying, it’s easier that way, less contortions. But it sure does make for a nice reading poem. Thank you.
I’ve written some American Sentence Poems. The group I wrote with was expecting a Haiku without any syllables. Sort of easy that way.
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I am always surprised when I look in the mirror, that I am not that young 20something any more. Wonderful poem.
This seems almost like a koan……who is the one doing the looking? Cool.
Paul Scribbles, master of riddles!
This is incredibly penned, Paul!❤️
Seems complicated to me. 🙂
simple awareness…
…this left me pondering quite a number of scenarios – and realized I was complicating things 🙂