Poem a day • April 2015 • Day One

Though I am busier that shite ... gonna try it.  
Will try to wrangle these in a certain direction.
Will see if it works.




For today’s prompt, write a resistance poem. There are many forms of resistance, including militant resistance, resistance to new ideas, the resistance in exercise, and maybe even a little resistance to starting a new project. I hope you don’t resist the urge to write a poem today.



There is only resistance 
where there is intention, will, effort.

And then the force denying:
the wheel, the cap, the relationship stuck
the white of the page,
the cloying hours of the afternoon
the decades of habit that make your eyes 
look at your eyes in the mirror
and look away in disappointment.

But not today.
Resistance has been surrounded on all sides
by perseverance which, sharing the will, eases the will

forced effort let's go
push back let's go

and writing about love
now and spring 
and time
time left

and love
spills 
down the page