Autodidactpoet

Autodidact: (n) a self-taught person. Poet: (n) a person who writes poetry. Autodidactpoet: (n) A blog full of thoughts from a self-taught writer.

Thursday, October 6, 2016

No More

October is domestic violence awareness month, and I was asked to write a poem for a vigil for domestic and intimate partner violence tonigh...

Thursday, September 22, 2016

Day 15: Grieving the war

I don't know how to explain the warzone I work in because there are no tanks, or guns -- except for when there were, once, last yea...

Monday, September 19, 2016

Day 14: Unpoemed

Here's the thing: this isn't really a poem. Here's the other thing: this is my blog, and my poem, so I get to say what...

Sunday, September 18, 2016

Day 13: Name This

Of course, I know this isn't technically day 13...but I needed to take two days off of poeming for lots of reasons. So here's day ...

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Day 12: Epigenetics

I don't know how many lifetimes a child must die through to end up sitting in my office with eyes like caverns that echo: a body ...

Day 11: Love letter from a flip-flop to the arpeggio: A story of unrequited love

Day 11/30 So...it's not that my creativity is waning...but...I maybe needed an idea of what to write tonight, so I went to Facebook...

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Day 10: Bathe Me Glorious

Things I learned just now: Some of my friends are jerks and they're lucky I love them anyway. I had no idea what to write ton...

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Autodidactpoet: "My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible shadow that falls between people, the veil of indifference to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight." Eudora Welty

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