By Daniel Paiz

I was lucky enough to attend a NaPoWriMo-related workshop this Saturday morning, hosted by one of Denver’s most decorated poets Suzi Q Smith. This event hosted by the anythink library in Commerce City was a chance to learn and listen to a lifelong caster or words, a preparer of poems and prose.

Poetry is very similar to sports in that there are exercises one can do to build and strengthen their syllabic cores. One’s toolbox can be ever growing. One such exercise from today asked participants to write down some words they appreciate.

Here are a few of those workshop words.

Workshop Words

There’s treasure to be found below,

but life has been too bouncy,

Perhaps I need to recruit or

at least learn to be a dipper.

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No, not the concession stand poisonous liquids,

rather the feathered flying beings,

fueled by the insect variety,

this bird goes high to low daily.

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Highs and lows are what life brings,

but floating along raging rapids,

are keeping my inner from drowning,

currents waving greetings of uncertainly.

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Salutations can be hollow, catch my drift?

Patterns of weather depositing droplets and grit,

so much invested in interactions isolating intrigue,

Flying away to places with being connected and free.

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Bonus info

Here again is the part where you get to hear the writer speak the words into the auditory realm: