https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/cripfemme2400/A place for my non-political poetry which I want to get back to writing. I'll try to post one every week or so.hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/cripfemme2400/651564Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:"";...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/cripfemme2400/641327Author's Note: Today's assignment was to eavesdrop on 10 minutes of a conversation. I kind of cheated. This is my silly effort. (inspired by My Cousin Vinny ) I was to busy to eavesdrop on real people today; my own conversations were short. I unheard no one, even in the mall. In effort to...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/cripfemme2400/641180All primates, including us, use tools. I use more than my share- my electric wheelchair, wrenches in my backpack, doctors, specialists, to a degree the PCA's I hire, purchase their fingers and strong backs for $12 an hour. I realize no other human being is meant to serve as my personal workhorse,...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/cripfemme2400/640573Why is the universe unkind still; even on holiest day My injured knee refuses to bow to my will. Creating a villanelle in a few hours is a test of skill. I don’t know if I have the will power this course to stay. Why is the universe unkind still? It occasionally aches with enough pain to kill at...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/cripfemme2400/634323Author's: Note: The theme for today was "a gift your received". Poem 5 of 100. My first ever school based aide- the person I would in later life call a PCA- invited mom and me to come to a Christmas era celebration with her husband and trio of daughters. I w-sat six year old behind parked between...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/cripfemme2400/634322Ubtiled Thanks to Th e Real Tomb Hunters: Snakes, Curses, and Booby Traps on the History Channel for inspiring this poem and providing the quote at the end of it) Collectors ogle tomb based treasures long buried and unearthed for science's sake, Improvised individuals sometimes sell off...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/cripfemme2400/634224A uthour's Note; The theme for today was red, Ninety-six to go! Mama digs deep into ground; I watch and hope you don't perish Roll Tide! Potato Color of hair contributed to modern genome by Neanderthals, according to National Geographic Purchased to get back into her graces Hue ranging from...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/cripfemme2400/634223Author's Note: My third 30 day poem Something Anthony Bourdain says catches ear as poetic. I rewind, even though show plays live, capacity granted by one more bit of modern technology that inhabits house. I'm eager to catch line entirely and transcribe it, correct, into computer screen. Replay...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/cripfemme2400/634084Author's Note: This is my 3rd 100 poems in 100 days entry, I hope you like it. Grandma My maternal grandmother is the last one standing- two grandfathers and another grandmother have gone too the great light before her She is st strong enough to play bingo several nights a week, clean this house...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/cripfemme2400/634080Author's Note: This is my 2nd 30 day poem. So far still sane My grandma is just another old woman or so I thought until I interviewed her for a poem about grandparents to fulfill another challenge's challenge. She shares tales of cleaning houses since she 14, there were no child labor laws back...