#OctPoWriMo Today’s poetry prompt is writing from the heart Form shape poetry or Lysentia Rhyme Listen to the living heart My heart, though essential to my body,is but a pump, a circulatorIt is my voice, resonating through my being,that is my living heart, the heart of me My heart, though beating to the world’s rhythms,isContinue reading “October 5: To Write From the Heart”
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October 4: Falling Onto the Page #OctPoWriMo #Writober and #NanoPrep
OctPoWriMo Poetry prompt Falling Form The Blitz Process of Falling Let go the gripLet loose the tether tiedTied up tightTied to an anchorAnchor at the bottomAnchor’s awayAway from doubtAway, up, up, andAnd I stutterAnd my pen stopsStops to checkStops the flowFlow of thoughtsFlow of imagesImages in colorImages of purposePurpose of pen scratchespurpose of passionsPassions gripPassionsContinue reading “October 4: Falling Onto the Page #OctPoWriMo #Writober and #NanoPrep”
October 3: Finding Beauty in the Chaos #OctPoWriMo #Writober and #NanoPrep
OctPoWriMo Today’s Poetry prompt beauty in chaos inspired me to pull out an old canvas and my acrylics and play. Tempest is far from finished, but I see potential in the chaos (and my arm is covered in purple which is fun). Form Free-verse I was having trouble with today’s poem, but then I rememberedContinue reading “October 3: Finding Beauty in the Chaos #OctPoWriMo #Writober and #NanoPrep”
October 2: #OctPoWriMo #Writober and #NanoPrep
OctPoWriMo Today’s prompt is vulnerability. I really like Morgan’s artwork and music choice for today. Forms: Haiku or Lannet. I don’t think I’ve heard of a Lannet before. I think I’ll give it a try. Fourteen lines, 10 syllables each, no end rhymes. Vulnerability Reaching blindly into the dark abysswhere monsters lurk and may biteContinue reading “October 2: #OctPoWriMo #Writober and #NanoPrep”
October 1: #OctPoWriMo #Writober and #NanoPrep Here we go!
It’s a foggy, creepy morning. Perfect for photographing spiderwebs and getting into the October spirit. Happy first day of October and that means it’s time for some poetry and creepy, scary flash fiction! OctPoWriMo Poetry prompt Today’s OctPoWriMo prompt and the theme for this year is “Shine your light.” Forms Acrostic or Kyrielle Sonnet AnContinue reading “October 1: #OctPoWriMo #Writober and #NanoPrep Here we go!”
October Challenges: #Writober and #OctPoWriMo
October is right around the corner which means some fun daily challenges I participate in are coming up. I hope you’ll join me. Writober Writober is a daily flash story challenge with image prompts. I set up the daily prompts on a pinterest board, so you can see them all at once and jump aroundContinue reading “October Challenges: #Writober and #OctPoWriMo”
#WriterInMotion ~ Final Thoughts
I entered the Writer-In-Motion Challenge hoping to get some big break-through information from a professional editor. I wanted that sword that would cut down rejection and get me to YES! Truth is, I got more than that. I got, “Wow, Maria, the voice in this is amazing!” Voice. That magical, unteachable thing. That how doContinue reading “#WriterInMotion ~ Final Thoughts”
#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”
Experience Writing 