Writing the Day

By Kenneth Ronkowitz

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Writing the Day is a poetry practice that started in 2014. These short poems are in the ronka form of 5 lines, each containing 7 words. Podcasts of the poems began in 2021, so 2024 is Season 4. Some poems are accompanied by additional commentary by the poet, Kenneth Ronkowitz. There are many more poems archived on the website at writingtheday.wordpress.com Thanks for listening - and reading.

Episode Date
Broken Wing
May 14, 2024
Deux Ex Machina
May 13, 2024
Salamander Rain
Apr 25, 2024
Cemetery With Snow
Apr 22, 2024
In My Fever
Apr 11, 2024
A Library Romance
Apr 05, 2024
Chocolate Day
Apr 02, 2024
Morning Snow
Mar 20, 2024
Book of Days
Mar 08, 2024
Doppelgänger
Feb 27, 2024
Stories in the Snow
Feb 24, 2024
Two Different Worlds
Feb 15, 2024
Another One (or two) Bite the Dust
Feb 14, 2024
Kafka on the Beach
Jan 20, 2024
Moodboard
Jan 20, 2024
Last Year's Words
Jan 05, 2024
Ending the Year
Dec 31, 2023
Goldfish Memory
Dec 29, 2023
Paradise Regained
Dec 25, 2023
Moving the River
Dec 21, 2023
In a Cold Wood
Dec 20, 2023
Adventus
Dec 08, 2023
Hamlet's Father
Dec 04, 2023
Just Slightly West of Eden
Nov 30, 2023
Formal Poetry
Nov 29, 2023
Yellow Chrysanthemums
Nov 19, 2023
Looking Up at the International Space Station
Nov 19, 2023
True Name
Nov 18, 2023
Walking to the Office with Wallace Stevens
Nov 08, 2023
Paradise Lost
Nov 03, 2023
#200
Nov 01, 2023
Allhallowtide
Oct 31, 2023
All Hallows Eve
Oct 31, 2023
Soul Cakes
Oct 31, 2023
By Heart
Oct 26, 2023
Palimpsest
Oct 26, 2023
Fear and Love Times Five
Oct 24, 2023
Bone Clocks
Oct 15, 2023
Soft Conspiracy
Sep 30, 2023
Hope in the Harvesting
Sep 25, 2023
The Circle and the Seed
Sep 23, 2023
Manuscript Sky
Sep 15, 2023
August and Late August
Sep 10, 2023
The Effect of a Butterfly
Sep 08, 2023
The Floating Bridge of Dreams
Aug 29, 2023
Or Not To Be
Aug 23, 2023
No Reply
Aug 19, 2023
This summer night feels more like autumn
Aug 10, 2023
A Podcast Note About Stitcher
Aug 09, 2023
Walking with Rilke
Aug 08, 2023
Reading Rilke
Aug 08, 2023
Hello, Listener
Aug 04, 2023
Photo at the Great Falls
Jul 26, 2023
Crêperie Américain
Jul 24, 2023
Stranglets
Jul 22, 2023
The 200th Day
Jul 19, 2023
RONKA DCCCLXXXVIII
Jul 17, 2023
Infinity
Jul 13, 2023
Salted Breeze
Jul 13, 2023
Junelight
Jul 11, 2023
Leaping Through the Stars
Jul 11, 2023
In The Church of Magical Thinking
Jul 06, 2023
2020
Jul 04, 2023
Aloft
Jun 27, 2023
A Still Point in Our Turning World
Jun 26, 2023
Foucault’s Pendulum
Jun 26, 2023
Shadow Work
Jun 21, 2023
There is a field I'm standing in...
Jun 07, 2023
New World. This World
Jun 03, 2023
Ladders
Jun 01, 2023
Pentecost
May 28, 2023
A Note About These Podcasted Poems
May 19, 2023
In Vincent's Room
May 18, 2023
At the Speed of Light
May 11, 2023
Eros
May 09, 2023
Lace of the New World
May 04, 2023
Seen Through Lace
Apr 28, 2023
Our Brightest Star
Apr 21, 2023
Checking for Mail
Apr 19, 2023
Snow Fog Trees
Apr 13, 2023
Crystallizing
Apr 12, 2023
Battle of the Guardian Angels
Apr 09, 2023
Ballcock
Apr 09, 2023
The Trees Are Talking
Apr 08, 2023
Today I Walked Through the Hospital Garden
Apr 07, 2023
My Mother’s Dream
Apr 06, 2023
Deep Time
Apr 04, 2023
The Word
Apr 04, 2023
Summation
Apr 01, 2023
Writing the First Days of April
Apr 01, 2023
Reverse Time
Mar 30, 2023
Planting Cloves
Mar 29, 2023
Senescence
Mar 27, 2023
Time and Love
Mar 26, 2023
Hidden in the Night Sky
Mar 24, 2023
Snowfall
Mar 20, 2023
Saving Lives
Mar 17, 2023
The Winter of My Content
Mar 14, 2023
Blue Jays
Mar 12, 2023
Afternoon In A Minor Key
Mar 10, 2023
Her Aubade
Feb 28, 2023
Now Podcasting on iHeart Radio and Amazon
Feb 26, 2023
The Ashes
Feb 23, 2023
Now and at the Hour
Feb 23, 2023
Ashes to Ashes
Feb 23, 2023
Ash Wednesday
Feb 22, 2023
Ghost Apples
Feb 20, 2023
Virgin Births
Feb 18, 2023
Gorgeous Nothings
Feb 17, 2023
Valentines
Feb 16, 2023
Conversation With An Angel
Feb 12, 2023
All Her Blues
Feb 09, 2023
Here Now
Feb 07, 2023
On the Subject of Angels
Jan 31, 2023
Snow Beach
Jan 28, 2023
Waning
Jan 25, 2023
Finding My Way
Jan 19, 2023
A Graveyard of Stars
Jan 07, 2023
Making Love With Light
Jan 06, 2023
Writing the Day Podcasts – 2022 in Review
Jan 04, 2023
No Mind
Jan 01, 2023
Tilting at Windmills
Jan 01, 2023
Only a Season
Dec 31, 2022
Labyrinth
Dec 31, 2022
For a Moment
Dec 25, 2022
The Sun Stone
Nov 23, 2022
A Book of Days
Nov 19, 2022
What I Learned
Nov 18, 2022
Home at Sunset
Nov 10, 2022
The Ronka Leaves the Nest
Nov 09, 2022
I am an itinerant poet
Nov 08, 2022
Hearing A Dharma Discourse
Nov 07, 2022
The Chipmunk Knows No Science
Oct 29, 2022
Panning for Gold
Oct 28, 2022
The Thing with Feathers Flies Away
Oct 25, 2022
Poems About Hope
Oct 25, 2022
Faces at the Reunion
Oct 23, 2022
The Path to Paradise Begins in Hell
Oct 12, 2022
Blossom Fall
Oct 11, 2022
The Path to Paradise Begins in Hell
Oct 09, 2022
The Museum of Broken Relationships
Oct 07, 2022
Reading Basho, I Notice the Cicadas
Oct 05, 2022
Falling Out of Summer
Oct 01, 2022
Ode for Stanley in His Garden
Sep 28, 2022
The Fall To-Do List
Sep 25, 2022
Mountaintop Meditation
Sep 17, 2022
She Is Sleeping
Sep 14, 2022
In the last minute of the world
Sep 03, 2022
Infinite Emptiness
Sep 01, 2022
Napping in the Multiverse
Aug 29, 2022
Elizabeth and Robert Eloped
Aug 26, 2022
Queen Anne’s Lace
Aug 23, 2022
Fish in the Sky
Aug 11, 2022
Feng Shui Bedroom
Aug 04, 2022
The Smallest Coffins Are the Heaviest
Aug 01, 2022
In a Liminal Space
Jul 28, 2022
Revealed
Jul 25, 2022
Disappearing
Jul 12, 2022
Leap of Faith
Jul 10, 2022
Rings and Whorls
Jul 09, 2022
He Never Learned to Swim
Jul 08, 2022
Helen, Frozen in Time
Jun 16, 2022
Poem for Petrichor
Jun 12, 2022
Listening to Someone Else Reading Your Poem
Jun 03, 2022
Tending the Garden
May 28, 2022
The Thing with Feathers Flies Away
May 23, 2022
The Angel Orders a Double Espresso
May 23, 2022
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church
May 22, 2022
Black Velvet
May 20, 2022
Gorgeous Nothings
May 19, 2022
Hope Is the Thing With Buds
May 18, 2022
Might I but moor – Tonight – With Thee
May 17, 2022
A Week for Emily
May 16, 2022
The Victorian Woman Reading Across From Me
May 15, 2022
The Metamorphosis of Ovid
Apr 28, 2022
Cause and Effect
Apr 22, 2022
Still Life
Apr 11, 2022
Darwin Goes to Rio
Apr 06, 2022
The Seasons
Mar 30, 2022
Podcast Update for March 2022
Mar 27, 2022
P-Value
Mar 26, 2022
Anywhere
Mar 25, 2022
When October 5 Became October 15
Mar 21, 2022
Migration
Mar 21, 2022
On Sylvia’s 30th Birthday
Mar 18, 2022
Cosmic Dawn
Mar 14, 2022
Time and the River
Mar 10, 2022
The Voices
Mar 03, 2022
Not Saving Daylight
Feb 28, 2022
Laws of Motion
Feb 27, 2022
Meteor Shower
Feb 26, 2022
Yesterday was a new day
Feb 26, 2022
New Year’s Day
Feb 26, 2022
Hourglass Snow
Feb 26, 2022
Ouija
Feb 23, 2022
Axis Mundi
Feb 22, 2022
It’s Not All Ronka Poems
Feb 22, 2022
Death Cleaning
Feb 18, 2022
Scarlet Experiments
Feb 16, 2022
Podcast Note
Feb 15, 2022
Ordinary Time
Jan 22, 2022
This Garden of Earthly Delights
Jan 22, 2022
At Sea
Jan 20, 2022
Facetious
Jan 20, 2022
Diagramming the Plot
Jan 18, 2022
A Monarchy of Butterflies
Jan 17, 2022
The Almanac
Jan 16, 2022
Transformation
Jan 15, 2022
Podcasts Season 2
Jan 14, 2022
January Moon
Jan 14, 2022
Another Time
Dec 11, 2021
A Lock of Emily Dickinson’s Hair
Sep 19, 2021
The Fallow Year
Aug 24, 2021
Force Majeure
Aug 22, 2021
After Reading Poems By Mary Oliver
Aug 18, 2021
The Beautiful and Perilous Mermaids
Aug 15, 2021
The Ghost of the Shimmering Summer Dawn
Aug 14, 2021
Annunciation
Aug 01, 2021
Poetic Obeisance
Jul 31, 2021
Solipsism
Jul 27, 2021
A Hole in the Sky
Jul 23, 2021
The Pequod and the Rachel
Jul 23, 2021
On Hemingway’s Birthday
Jul 21, 2021
She
Jun 26, 2021
Halfway House
Jun 12, 2021
Circumpolar
Jun 10, 2021
Zen Archer
May 16, 2021
The Spring Rain in Japan
May 08, 2021
What Is a Ronka Poem?
May 05, 2021
My Octopus Dreams
May 05, 2021
Writing the Day Podcasts
Apr 27, 2021
Seven Thousand Red Leaves
Apr 25, 2021
Who Owns Your Dreams?
Apr 23, 2021
Karmic Reminders
Apr 21, 2021
Mourning Cloak
Apr 14, 2021