poem – Page 12 – mabel lee

What Can My Left Hand Say?

In response to We Write Poems’ Prompt #74, which challenged us to write a poem with our left hand. It wasn’t as bad as I thought… I even went back to revise with my left hand 😀 What Can My Left Hand Say? Like a young heart learning to write by rote, by repeating theContinue reading “What Can My Left Hand Say?”

How the Nose Remembers

In response to We Write Poems’ Prompt #73 concerning the sense of smell. I particularly liked this prompt because I’ve always believed that certain scents can act as time machines… How the Nose Remembers The kindergarten bathroom or what my memory rehearses of it was white, two-stalled. A wide-hipped woman we called Grandma Eleanor sat me,Continue reading “How the Nose Remembers”

Penitent

This is inspired by We Write Poems’ Prompt #72, which is about addressing shame. It diverges a bit from the prompt in that it isn’t a personal poem but rather one that is projected from an imagined person. Penitent I feel I’ve spent half my life behind a screen. Between points of light a mouth doesContinue reading “Penitent”