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Day 27 | April Poetry Month Challenge | A Mind of Its Own

Updated: Apr 27, 2021

WFSC Creative Writing Facilitators, Mike Deregowski and Kelsey Hoople, challenge you to participate in national poetry month. 1 poem per day for 30 days with no working ahead. 😉

Overall theme 'When Life Changes'.

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Day 27 | April 27th | A Mind of Its Own

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Linda Pedley
Linda Pedley
Apr 29, 2021

April 27 – A Mind of Its Own


My words have a mind of their own

Any writer can relate to this process

They come to our pen from somewhere deep down

So clear and precise we wonder who the boss is…


Am I in control of my mind and my thoughts?

Does this phenomenon happen each time?

Will it produce work I love – or not

Help with plot, character, flow and/or rhyme?


When it’s all on the page and I am giddy with delight

A complete novel, short story, or poem

Will I wake up editing in the middle of the night--

Knowing my words have a mind of their own!


© Linda J. Pedley – April 2021

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lawrence.jar94
lawrence.jar94
Apr 29, 2021

A Mind of Its Own - Touched, by the heat of a thousand suns

Left to broil, and wonder

What of me becomes,

What trial waits on yonder?


For my feet see the path they've trundled,

Leading far back into mists of memory -

Why is it I feel so troubled?

A writer lost in his own story,


Amidst the blackened pen ink

Scratched on dreams-on-white-scroll;

I feel unable to think,

Grasped in a pleasure, heartened full!


In the light of a thousand suns

Those dreams lost to nightmares,

Lost in flames, ink tears drying even as it runs;

Shall I let it burn away my cares?


I would, if I could, but time has told that's not me;

And yet, like…


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Lana O'Neill
Lana O'Neill
Apr 29, 2021

DAY 27- A MIND OF ITS OWN


Born a tender soul

She’s a pleaser at first glance

But growing strong with silent care

The strength to gift life’s chance


Peers from school spread rumour's

‘Avoid that misplaced geek’

But lifting the outcast’s burden

Proved lighter than pressured cliques


Her mother used to warn her

‘Not to talk to strangers’

But the homeless hand seeking help

Spoke louder than the dangers


Her quiet soul looks inward

Sees ills she can’t condone

Her voice speaks through a heart

With a mind all of its own


WRITTEN BY LANA O’NEILL APRIL, 2021

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J.E. McKnight
Apr 27, 2021

A Mind of its Own (Tanka) - my second attempt at a Tanka


How did I get here?

Had a plan for my future

It got away from me

As if I’m not in control

Life has a mind of its own


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