The Poetics prompt today at dVerse Poets Pub is about signs. We had three choices: a) recall an experience you’ve had where you’ve asked for a sign, or came upon a sign unasked-for, and interpreted it and write a poem about the experience, preferably in first person. b) do some research and find a myth,Continue reading “The Sign That Opened My Ears”
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Tiny Little Slivers
Today’s prompt for Quadrille (a poem of exactly forty-four words) Monday at dVerse Poets Pub is “sliver.” Tiny Little Slivers summer barefoot joyrunning on docks and decksoften leaves a tiny sliver the smallest almost invisible splinter deep under the skin creating a stabbing painto the touchsharp and lingeringlike the stabin the backslivering its wayto theContinue reading “Tiny Little Slivers”
Continuing My Contradictory Abstract Noun Study
Back on May 1st in my post Reviewing April and Contemplating May, I talked about my plan to collect all of the abstract nouns and place them in grids along the three axes of fear (fight to flight); control (inner to outer); and bias (positive to negative) in an attempt to find a new BigContinue reading “Continuing My Contradictory Abstract Noun Study”
Review of My Seattle Summer Reading Bingo Card & My New Thriller Reading Bingo Card
I’m glad I decided to participate in the Seattle Arts and Lectures summer reading book bingo this year. The categories suggested for each square led me to variety of books and many great book discoveries that I most likely wouldn’t have found other wise. Below is the list of the squares starting in the topContinue reading “Review of My Seattle Summer Reading Bingo Card & My New Thriller Reading Bingo Card”
Super Blue Moon
Today is Haibun Monday at dVerse Poets Pub, and today’s prompt is this week’s Super Blue Moon. To Swim or Not Swim to a Super Blue Moon I had planned to swim to the (super blue) moon, following the light through the lake to forever. Something I used to love to do every summer. ButContinue reading “Super Blue Moon”
Tuned In for a Stream of Consciousness Saturday #SoCS
Today is supposed to be very hot with poor air quality due to smoke. It feels like a good day to stay inside with the blinds drawn and he fan on high for a stream of consciousness Saturday. And I’m in luck! Today’s prompt is “tune.” Tunes for Tuning Out While Tuning In Today isContinue reading “Tuned In for a Stream of Consciousness Saturday #SoCS”
As the Bottle Spins
Today’s Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub is “bottle.” The Bottle Spins The perfect summer sunlight filled the empty bottleonce stopped it held a warm vibrating lightthe bottle sat on a shelf like a secret to not tellwaiting for a winter darkness that was right once stopped; it held the warm vibrating lightwhen he reachedContinue reading “As the Bottle Spins”
Not a Pine
Today’s Quadrille (a poem of exactly forty-four words) prompt at dVerse Poets Pub is “pine.” Ever Since I Was Little, I Can’t Help But Call Them Pine I complain about the pine needles insideand raking up the pine conesThey’re not pine, says he, correcting me, firmly, as I stare up at the giant evergreensWe don’tContinue reading “Not a Pine”
Rhetorical devices: Playing with words to be more convincing
Something amazing and surprising happened this summer. My nephew became interested in reading and wanted to read my Gator McBumpypants picture books with me. He then planned out the next ten years of my life with new characters I need to make and write about. I still have the pictures I took in New OrleansContinue reading “Rhetorical devices: Playing with words to be more convincing”
A Positive Transition: It’s the little things
Today’s Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub is to write a poem about transition. A Subtle Key Change from Minor to Major though days are stolen by antsthe morning light is enchanting through the sprinklersand chickens ate my barely-growing gardenedible wild mushrooms appeared in the dying yardeverything takes longer than I want it toand theContinue reading “A Positive Transition: It’s the little things”
Experience Writing 