Today is Haibun Monday at dVerse Poets Pub and Frank Tassone has challenged us to write a Solstice haibun. Summer Solstice Safari It’s hard to believe solstice is this week. The longest day of a summer that’s turtling—pokes its head out early, then hides, emerges then hides again. For the event it is supposed toContinue reading “Summer Solstice Safari”
Category Archives: Creativity
Visual Music
Today’s form prompt provided by Grace at dVerse Poets Pub is the Flamenca. “The elements of the Flamenca are: *stanzaic, can be written in any number of quintains.*syllabic, 6-6-5-6-6 syllables per line to imitate the rapid click of the heels of a dancer.*Line 2 and Line 5 assonate. (same vowel sounds) “ Here’s my firstContinue reading “Visual Music”
Contrasting Abstractions: The next phase in my study
The Writer’s Games have ended! I sent in my final story yesterday. Guests have left. The family is busy. I might get a full day to myself. And the sun is out. 😎 Hope and Despair Last week, inspired by some abstract art books: Abstraction in Art & Nature by Nathan Cabot Hale Abstracts InContinue reading “Contrasting Abstractions: The next phase in my study”
September’s Changing Focus Blog Challenge: Reflections
Last month I was excited to find the Changing Focus Blog Challenge, because I’m always looking for ways that my talents and creativity can work together, and a multimedia project around a theme each month felt like just the thing for me. I came up with, and executed, my Pathways response in two weeks. IContinue reading “September’s Changing Focus Blog Challenge: Reflections”
What color is your portal? Change it with online paint chips.
Yesterday I started a new Coursera course: Songwriting:Writing the Lyrics with Pat Pattison through Berklee College of Music. One of the first lessons conceptualized a song as three boxes, stacked with the smallest on top. The top box fitting inside the middle box and both fitting in the bottom box. He used this imagery asContinue reading “What color is your portal? Change it with online paint chips.”
#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”
Experience Writing 