IMPROMPTU #96: 13 Moons

Today's inspiration brought to you by Friday the 13th, Day of the Goddess. Here's a quote from Chani Nicholas about this day: 

"The number 13 has always been associated with the Goddess as there are 13 moons in a year. The word for Friday derives from the Latin phrase "dies Veneris", which simply means "Day of Venus." Friday is also thought to be named after the ancient goddess Frigg and/or Freya, as in "Freya's Day" or "Frigg's Day". This is a day of luck and blessings. The only bad thing about Friday the 13th is the misogynistic misinformation that keeps us from celebrating its namesake and power."

Your prompt is "13 moons." 

Make it wild. Make it ugly. Make it sweet. Make it. 

IMPROMPTU #95: Affirmations

Write a list of affirmations as questions (after Karen Solie). Read the poem below:

AFFIRMATIONS

by Karen Solie

Has the past not pursued me with its face
and haven't I turned away?
Can a thing made once not be made again?

Hasn't the rider returned to her horse,
the dog to his master? Isn't this the lesson
of our popular literature?
And was the trash not collected
this morning, signalling no disruption
to the civic schedule?

Isn't the gesture, the act, inarguable?
And don't we live a parallel life in thought,
an attentiveness not unlike

a natural prayer of the mind and not-mind?
The shadow cast between them.
Where an unlight burns.

Won't nighttime reawaken and won't it be familiar?
Unequivocal through Carolinian forests
which have not wholly disappeared,
and equally among rows
of wrecked cars in the junkyards,
hoods open like a choir?

IMPROMPTU #94: Childhood Memory + Magic Power

Congrats to everyone who's on Day 11 of National Poetry Month 30 Poems 30 Days! You're all amazing! Keep going! I got prompts if you need 'em. 

Today: Reflect back on a specific childhood memory, a moment in which your understanding of the world changed. Go back to that moment and give yourself a magical power. How does the moment change?