If you didn’t come by Experience Writing yesterday, I started a week long photography and poetry challenge inspired by a prompt from Poets & Writers called Excavating the Mind. Day 2 notes and observations It has been raining for two days. It stopped for a moment, so I thought I would focus today’s observations onContinue reading “Excavating the Mind Day 2: Sudsy water”
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A Poetry and Photography Project for May: Day 1 the flowers stole focus
I started my day by taking another look at Molly Spencer’s revision post. I followed her link to Poets & Writers The Time Is Now series and found an inspiring prompt: Excavating the Mind The prompt, inspired by Bernadette Mayer’s book Memory, challenges to jot down notes about several images and observations each day forContinue reading “A Poetry and Photography Project for May: Day 1 the flowers stole focus”
Revising and Editing Poems
Now that National Poetry Writing Month is over and many of us have thirty fresh poem drafts, it’s time to start thinking about revision. This morning I scoured the internet for revision techniques and found a lot of useful information and some worksheets. We want to approach each poem with fresh eyes, so I recommendContinue reading “Revising and Editing Poems”
#NaPoWriMo Day 30: When Zeal Returns
I thought a couple of my fabric glass light boxes were nice illustrations for today’s return poem, but the way they were hanging on the wall wasn’t conducive to the photographs I wanted, so I rearranged them. It felt weird, but good, pulling them off the wall and swapping them around, plugging them in andContinue reading “#NaPoWriMo Day 30: When Zeal Returns”
#NaPoWriMo Day 29: The penultimate poem
The poem Total Trickster It’s a complicated relationship but then, isn’t every relationship–complicated We keep it casual He wanders over on a whim takes a nap on my porch either in the chair where I like to read or the cushion on the bench When I notice him, I go out to say Hello sometimes,Continue reading “#NaPoWriMo Day 29: The penultimate poem”
#NaPoWriMo Day 28: When there is nothing but memories
The poem The Best Rooms Are Too X-rated Thinking through the bedrooms so many bedrooms moving and moving trying to make something mine I tried to settle on one to mentally linger, loiter describe in detail like a capsule through time I wanted it to be a happy place full of growth and creative industryContinue reading “#NaPoWriMo Day 28: When there is nothing but memories”
#NaPoWriMo Day 27: Massive Wonderment
The poem A Review of Wonderment At first glance, it can be confusing and a little bit scary the rush of heightened perception opening the senses to floods of emotion when facing the tremendous unknown The impressive beauty of discovery sparking the creative mind to sort through the behemoth array of memories and form newContinue reading “#NaPoWriMo Day 27: Massive Wonderment”
#NaPoWriMo Day 26: A Day Can Change So Quickly
The poem The Changing Days A day can change so quickly the sun slips behind the clouds limbs break in the wind becoming glass-shattering projectiles the house floods, or burns, or burns while flooding families shrink or grow chairs are shifted around the table Change will always happen childhood dreams fleeting take a lifetime toContinue reading “#NaPoWriMo Day 26: A Day Can Change So Quickly”
#NaPoWriMo Day 25: To Study This Twinkling
A to Z Challenge variation(s) – the transformation of a melody or theme with changes or elaborations in harmony, rhythm, and melody. vibration – Any rapid, repeating undulatory or tremulous movement; it is vibration that causes all sound. virtuoso – One who is extremely skilled at performing upon an instrument NaPoWriMo Prompt: Writing After JamesContinue reading “#NaPoWriMo Day 25: To Study This Twinkling”
#NaPoWriMo Day 24: Nature’s Candy
A to Z Challenge unison – interval formed by two parts on the same pitch NaPoWriMo Prompt: write about a particular fruit PAD Challenge Prompt: write a nature poem The poem Californian Mandarin Cutie Strong dimpled flesh in my favorite color the perfect size for the palm of my hand peels away revealing chalky off-whiteContinue reading “#NaPoWriMo Day 24: Nature’s Candy”
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