It’s the very first day of National Poetry Writing Month and the prompt is to “derange” myself, make the world strange and see it as a stranger. This could tie in nicely with the April PAD Challenge prompt: write an introduction poem. As part of my poem, I could introduce a stranger: create a personaContinue reading “April First: And so it begins”
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The laundry mountain: dirty, clean, dirty
Today’s poetics prompt at the dVerse Poets Pub is to write a laundry poem. De Jackson, today’s host, wrote a great example called Spin Cycle. The prompt brought up tons of memories: The cramped laundry room in my childhood home, sorting socks with Mom, the drying closet in Sweden, hand scrubbing in a basin inContinue reading “The laundry mountain: dirty, clean, dirty”
April’s Blogging A to Z challenge: contronyms, antagonyms, or auto-antonyms. Oh, my!
April is almost here! My days are flying by too quickly. Yesterday, I signed up for the blogging A to Z challenge. This will be my fourth year combining National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo) with the blogging A to Z challenge. I enjoy how the poetry prompts and the words I choose for the challengeContinue reading “April’s Blogging A to Z challenge: contronyms, antagonyms, or auto-antonyms. Oh, my!”
The Cherry Blossoms Starting to Fall
Today is Haibun Monday at dVerse Poets Pub and I found the cherry blossoms prompt timely. I went out to admire the cherry-plum trees in bloom and noticed the grass is already littered with pink. I’m glad Frank inspired me to spend some time admiring the pink against the sky before it is gone. EmergingContinue reading “The Cherry Blossoms Starting to Fall”
Revising at the Scene Level
In my last post on revising a short story, I mentioned the many things a scene needs to do: have a goal have a conflict have an action that leads to a new goal character development world building reveal new information provide sensory information have a grabber or payoff For my revision, I assigned eachContinue reading “Revising at the Scene Level”
Stream of Consciousness Saturday (#SoCS): Run Yonder
Yesterday morning I happened upon Sammi Cox’s Weekend Writing Prompt. This weekly writing prompt offers a word prompt and a word limit. This weekend it is “Yonder” and the word limit is 44 words which I found familiar as it is the same as the dVerse Quadrille. I thought I would give it a goContinue reading “Stream of Consciousness Saturday (#SoCS): Run Yonder”
Playing in the Duplex
When I read The Tradition by Jericho Brown, I was drawn to his duplex poems. I was fascinated by how slight changes in the repetition of a line could completely change and deepen the meaning of both lines. Inspired by Peter’s prompt at dVerse Poets Pub to attempt a circular poem, I thought I wouldContinue reading “Playing in the Duplex”
Squares in Motion
Today’s Poetics challenge at the dVerse Poets Pub is to write an ekphrastic poem. I chose Laura’s third option and began my poem based on the title of an image by an artist I wasn’t familiar with, Bridget Riley, before I looked at the piece. Then I looked at the piece and finished the poem.Continue reading “Squares in Motion”
The First Narcissus
This morning I found Stream of Consciousness Saturday (#SoCS) thanks to seeing Jenna at revivedwriter’s post in my wordpress reader. I was about to sit down to some stream of consciousness writing in my morning pages anyway, so I thought I would see what SoCS is all about. The prompt for Stream of Consciousness SaturdayContinue reading “The First Narcissus”
The hummingbird is a close relative of the swift, but a swift can also be a lizard or a reel for winding thread.
Today at the dVerse Poetry Pub the Quadrille prompt is “swift.” Because I had been bird watching this morning, I thought I would give this 44 word poem a try. Then I started looking at swift’s definitions and synonyms (like I do) and found the noun definitions very interesting. The birds that are called swiftsContinue reading “The hummingbird is a close relative of the swift, but a swift can also be a lizard or a reel for winding thread.”
Experience Writing 