I've recently discovered the wonderful world of MOOCs (massive open online courses), free university-level courses taught via online modules, in just about any topic you can name. Ironically, I came across MOOCs through an article heralding their demise. 

I'm currently taking a poetry course, How Writers Write Poetry, through the University of Iowa. It's fascinating, and fun. Here's a little something I cooked up this week. 

The Battle 
In a quiet nook 
Paper leaves 
Turned by trembling 
Fingertips 
Rustle softly 

A battle of wills 
Shakespeare
Wordsworth
Owen 
Begins

Draw your swords
Draw swords
Raw words 
War drown
Word down 

The pen is mightier 
Black blue 
Blood red 
Ink spills 
Across the 
Landscape 
Pages

The cannon of literature
Explodes 
Bangs, booms, crashes
Through time 
Until all that is left 
Are question 
Marks 

The poet 
Wanders
Lost in thought 
Trips and stumbles 
On sounds and syllables 
Receives a paper cut

The mind field 
Laid to rest.