✽elle écrit✽: Born To Lose

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Wordle 51 & NaPoWriMo Day 8: Born To Lose

Happy Sunday and happy Easter to all who celebrate! I have eleven coming for brunch and an egg hunt in a few hours. I will be back to comment tonight.

New words from Brenda at The Sunday Whirl:
marrow, staggering, destiny, story,
blood, mate, broken, addiction,
buried, songs, dusk, sorrows

Born To Lose
Screwing up every little thing
he ever tries to do,
his family gone,
job gone, friends gone, too,
there's nothing left.
Buried in dusky sorrow,
bloodied and broken
and hopeless to his marrow,
he staggers to his destiny,
addiction and failure
the end story of his life.

sidewalk poetry

Marcus Young, Saint Paul’s artist in residence, started an annual sidewalk poetry contest in 2008. St. Paul residents were invited to enter the contest to have their poems permanently installed in city sidewalks. Young conceived the idea after learning about the public works department’s annual sidewalk replacement program. Because of age and deterioration, the city replaces about 10 miles of sidewalk each year. “I like the unlikely pairing of poetry and sidewalk replacement,” Young said. “Sidewalks are clearly a necessity, yet creating beauty and mystery with public art is equally important. We must build well both the hard durable structures of our city and the soft spaces for our collective imagination." My poem, November, was one of the five poems chosen to be installed in 2009.

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Sunday, April 8, 2012

Wordle 51 & NaPoWriMo Day 8: Born To Lose