“Meeting of the Minds” – Day 2 of National Poetry Month
In past Aprils on this blog, I have posted a draft poem a day in honor of National Poetry Month. Some of the poems are pretty rough, but the commitment is a fun tool to get one writing poetry and I urge you to join in on the exercise. Here’s today’s:
Meeting of the Minds
I never knew, she says, that a body stayed warm
so long. You know.
Me neither, I say. I didn’t know
either.
Now we are silent, confirmed in
what we both know, but without a clue
as to what comes
next.
As always, I welcome and very much appreciate your comments and suggestions, particularly since many of the poems I will be posting this month will be still-in-progress! That said, if you want to read work of mine that is finished, please please please check out: my very silly but fun novel, NOSE DIVE, my book of poetry, GOING ON SOMEWHERE, or my children’s counting book 1 MISSISSIPPI. )
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ManicDDaily 
April 2, 2012 at 9:06 pm
Intriguing and curious. I am wondering what’s going to happen next and how this encounter came to be.
Good luck with NaPoWriMo!
April 3, 2012 at 6:38 am
Wow, this is almost haunting! Uhm, honestly, I too wonder what will happen next and half feel I don’t really want to know 🙂
April 3, 2012 at 6:39 am
Haunting! I half don’t want to really know 😀
April 3, 2012 at 11:20 am
well makes me wonder what came before…obviously there is a dead body…and at that point what comes next is often up in the air…smiles.
April 3, 2012 at 12:02 pm
YEs, it’s an odd poem. I am hoping to have time to post something else for OLN but haven’t had much time today. k.
April 3, 2012 at 12:36 pm
Whoosh–this one goes by so fast you hardly have time to feel the scalpel–I love your ability to write as if speaking–a great start to the month. (I’m already a day behind, but running as fast as I can–I like to do this particular challenge every year, it makes you realize how you have more control than you think.)
April 3, 2012 at 12:54 pm
Well I have been up since before six working on legal documents (I’m an attorney) so do not feel too much control over poetry at the moment! But I am hoping to come up with something different for OLN as this is a poem that a lot of people may have a hard time “getting.” K.
April 3, 2012 at 12:46 pm
ha…this puts me right in the middle of kinda criminal scene…you manage to create quite a weird atmosphere in these short lines…i like