Poetry Month Day 14: What They Wrote

Want to write? i said
Want a space where you’re read? i said
Then come with me i said
You can blog like me i said
Here are some ideas i said
You can take them or do other things i said

And then they came
They blogged
They took some ideas
And they did other things like:

1. A journaling of a day, gone by too fast.
2. An ode to flowers
3. A poem demanding us to look, just look, at the wonder around us
4. A treatise on nostalgia
5. A heart-wrenching poetic series that tells of our inner conflict between our positive and negative selves
6. Stories about trampolines
7. Deep dives into all those weird questions that keep us awake at night
8. A poem that hangs heavy with the unfairness of life
9. A COVID parody on “12 Days of Christmas”
10. Soapboxes on humans and our treatment of animals
11. Stories that they start the first installment of, then the stories that they switch to because why not take a chance and share some writing that isn’t quite your favorite but you’re still working on and want to just put out into the world and see what happens
12. The latest installments on the Minecraft Saga, on Chokis and Fott’s new adventures, the New Life story, the tale of Test Subject 99,823, all somehow miraculously, magically written with correctly-punctuated dialogue and paragraphing and description and narration because miraculously, magically, they realize that other people are reading their work

This is good, i think
They’re figuring things out, i think
And they’re taking it, i think
And running, i think
And it’s hard to keep up, i think

And there are some problems
That are good problems to have.