Stone Soup Croutons, 8-14-24: Home Stretch

Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions selected from Stone Soup Poetry's open mic readers and features. I figure out a title (and sometimes the rest of the poem) later. You can read the other ones I've done since 2015 here.

 

I also have a book collecting the best of my first year of poems. Click here to purchase it.

Another all-open mic this week.  I liked  after the fact. 

 

A simple ode to summer ending. That's how I see the poem for this week.

I couldn't reference Gault's first round robin poem. Apologies. Everything else got touched on, I hope.

Thanks for reading.

Home Stretch

 

Nighttime critters

recreate original  

blue note recipe

we can't copy. 

 

Sound reinvented,

under-tree fantasies
broken memory

of a lost dance. 

Cain and Abel's

alternate ending.

Couples meeting

over bad coffee. 

A walk with one

added pirouette

down in the park

without armor.

Special thanks to Mary Ann Honaker, Bryan Franco, Julian Matthews, Richard Spisak, Jon Wesick, Richard Boucher, Ethan Mackler, Robert Fleming and Edward S. Gault.