It's My Tune to Take a Stance at a Body Poem - the Last Prompt of the 2022 #VerseLove Season with Tremendous Thanks to the Other Poets

It's the body poem, inspired by Sarah Donovan on the last day of #VerseLove 2022, a month of feeling alive with words and awaking every morning with a new prompt and another opportunity to explore language. Now, what comes is May, and I have to transition the daily routined of reading about what is possible, and then seeing where my fingers and mind take me.

Yesterday, we gathered for a while sharing prompts, our favorite poems, and the reason the community comes together as it does. It's time for me to turn on the other writing projects that have been on the back burner, to focus on last week responsibilities for the university, and to start thinking summer. There's a lot coming CWP's way rather quick. 

It’s My Tune 

   ~brcrandall

i handle love

like Rainman

it’s raining, man…

i love the rain

but no running,

ankle pain

& man boobs

the ripley ass

girth gathers

middle-age fast

calf muscles

once a joy

(walked 8 miles

thatta-boy)

i handle love

i love handles

larger than life

confessionals

blubber blab

blabber blub

morning whale

glub glub glub

muscle tuned

muscle toned

human carcass

fleshed & boned

girth gorilla

body baboon

sing the body electric

humming this tune.