Welcome to the first day of National Poetry Month! April is a busy month here at Experience Writing. There’s a lot to experience: the cherry plum trees are covered in their happy pink and white blossoms; daffodils bow their frilly heads in the flowerbeds; and I enjoy combining the daily writing challenges of blogging AContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 1: Aggression and Apathy”
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A Weed is a Flower in the Wild
For today’s Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub, Sarah encourages us to celebrate National Weed Appreciation Day. Over at National Day Calendar I found some tips on how to observe this day of appreciation: HOW TO OBSERVE WEED APPRECIATION DAY And I’ll add: Last year I discovered that I can put a small weed onContinue reading “A Weed is a Flower in the Wild”
My Place in Space
For today’s Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub, Ingrid urged us to “write the poetry of the places and/or spaces which inspire you the most.” What a wonderful prompt for the first sunny spring day of 2023 here at Lake Tapps. Once Upon a Lake Tapps Spring Today the Mountain peeks from behind the cloudslikeContinue reading “My Place in Space”
2023 A to Z Challenge Theme Reveal
Last year’s A to Z Challenge became a year long focus that changed how I approach art, poetry, and writing fiction. I like to combine the A to Z Challenge with the daily poetry prompts from NaPoWriMo and Poem-a-Day, so last year I picked the simple topic of “Abstract Nouns.” Abstract nouns are nouns thatContinue reading “2023 A to Z Challenge Theme Reveal”
The Joy of Play
The Poetics prompt at dVerse today is play. I was inspired to play with motion in the mirror world with my new filters which was fun. And for my poem I played with the answer ball I created over a year ago. The answer ball is a ball of photographs of specific nouns. The ideaContinue reading “The Joy of Play”
On a blanket in the wildflowers counting shooting stars
Today’s Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub is to write a poem about a kiss or kissing. On a blanket in the wildflowers counting shooting stars It’s a waiting gameonce the thought beginsit grows and becomes all encompassinga wish in the abyssevery look a questionevery sigh a possible signevery motion a suggestioneach inch an invitationContinue reading “On a blanket in the wildflowers counting shooting stars”
Written in the Stars
Today’s prompt for Quadrille Monday at dVerse Poets Pub is “star.” I’ve been playing around with creating found poetry from The Complete Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper (1653), one of the texts suggested for submissions to the next issue of Heron Tree. Culpeper believed that the medicinal properties of herbs were connected to stars and planets,Continue reading “Written in the Stars”
The Review of Resolution
Today’s Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub is about resolutions. Every year about this time is when New Year’s resolutions fizzle and dissolve, then are forgotten. Last year, I was completely determined to change my behaviors: I read everything about habits, goals, and motivation; I attended an online conference on having my best year; IContinue reading “The Review of Resolution”
The Week in Review: Reading, Writing, and Abstraction
How was your week? Did you try reading like a writer? Though I didn’t find a lot to apply to my novel from The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill, I did have fun brainstorming unique formats for my novel, and it inspired me to get a copy of S. by J.J. Abrams andContinue reading “The Week in Review: Reading, Writing, and Abstraction”
Memento Poetry Form
The Meeting the Bar prompt at dVerse Poets Pub is a new to me poetry form called “Memento.” The Memento form “created by Emily Romano is a poem about a holiday or an anniversary, consisting of two stanzas as follows: the syllable count should be 8 beats for line one; 6 beats for line two;Continue reading “Memento Poetry Form”
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