Stone Soup Croutons, 9-25-24: Blown

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.

Thanks for reading. 

Another open mic before the Boston Poetry Marathon this Saturday.

 

Unexpectedly small crowd. Lot of people away, working or with computer issues. Or maybe they had to wash their hair. I dunno. I got to read some old Crouton poems, but I never use my old Crouton poems in a new Crouton poem. That's like the recycled food concept in Judge Dredd.

 

I've always wanted to sum up an open mic with a haiku. I basically wrote three. 

Thanks for reading.

 

Blown

 

Evicted ghost

hides in Monet hues

of cathedral.

 

Watches roller coaster

wave, future sky kings

dying on command. 

 

Dandelion bits

burst apart by 

divine right of force.

 

 

 

Special thanks to Bryan Franco, Bil Lewis, Robert Fleming and Ethan Mackler.