I’m not making any promises, but I’m going to attempt to keep up with NaPoWriMo this year. I’ll be writing a poem a day however, I refuse to post one everyday. I think that’s overload. So I’ll do what I can. In other news… today marks the day my biggest source of inspiration came into my life. It’s my anniversary! What better way to kick off National Poetry Month than to share a poem I wrote in honor of the man that keeps me wanting to write poetry.
I hope you make time to read and write some poetry this month, and don’t forget to thank whoever or whatever it is that inspires you to keep doing whatever it is that you do.
-Umm Qamar
The Letters
“…tell your supervisor you’re leaving early today
and I’m going to pay for the rest of your day …” -Tony! Toni! Tone!
A year ago today
Marks the day they became
“Impossible us”
She with legs sealed shut and heart wide open
He in High Pursuit
“Do you know what today is?”
Mother Father Friend said,
He’s all wrong for you
Nothing more than good
Conversation. Piercing like
First time penetration His creed
All wrong he’s coming on too strong
Plundering through barbed wire
fenses trailing Issey Miyake scent
Yellow kite tails catching.
“It’s our anniversary, anniversary…”
Something about a caged bird
The free just can’t appreciate
Scratches in the track our music
Don’t make sense we make
Vinyl record love
Fuck autotunes
He had a throwback style
Would throwback any man
That ever thought they could
She spoke of limitations like deal breakers
And then the letter came
Proving that roses could be born of concrete
And hearts built of brick
Love could be pieced together from leftovers
Can pervade through hard times.
Six years ago today
A moon was born
A year ago today
Trembling hands penned sureties
Two troubled paths eclipsed,
“Do you know what today is?”
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