Poetry>New Poem 📝This post is in response to the Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub✒️This post contains a new poem that is the property of Maria L. Berg Prompt Today’s prompt from Truedessa for Poetics at dVerse Poets Pub is to write a poem inspired by the poem “The Song by Paddle Sings” by EmilyContinue reading “Paddling Against the Current”
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Colored Images
Poetry>New Poem 📝This post is in response to the MTB prompt at dVerse Poets Pub✒️This post contains a new poem that is the property of Maria L. Berg Prompt Today’s prompt from Laura Bloomsbury for Meet the Bar at the dVerse Poets Pub is to write an imagist poem with a color motif. This promptContinue reading “Colored Images”
Late Summer Cinquain
Poetry>New Poem 📝This post is in response to the MTB prompt at dVerse Poets Pub✒️This post contains a new poem that is the property of Maria L. Berg Prompt Today’s prompt from Björn for Meet the Bar at the dVerse Poets Pub is to write a cinquain. A cinquain is a syllabic poem with fiveContinue reading “Late Summer Cinquain”
Fear of Death
Happy Halloween! You’ve done it: thirty days of poems, stories, and photographs; weekly sewing and music projects. And we’re here at the end. Our final Writober poem, story, and photo prompts of 2024. OctPoWriMo Poetry Toolbox If you didn’t make your word list this month, it’s never too late. I created this Excel Spreadsheet forContinue reading “Fear of Death”
Fear of Acts of God
Welcome back for the thirtieth day of Writober. We are in our final days looking at the fifth universal fear: fear of extinction. Today, we’re looking at Acts of God, storms and other large events that are out of our control. Fear of Acts of God is the same as fear of bad luck, similarContinue reading “Fear of Acts of God”
Fear of Predators
Welcome back for the twenty-ninth day of Writober. We are in our final days looking at the fifth universal fear: fear of extinction. Today we’re looking at fear of predators. Fear of predators is hard-wired into the human psyche from cave man days, but today, a human is as likely to be the predator asContinue reading “Fear of Predators”
Fear of Extinction
Welcome back for the twenty-eighth day of Writober. The month has flown by like a ghost-witch on a rocket-powered broom, and here we are in our final days looking at the fifth universal fear: fear of extinction. The big fear, the fear that rules them all death, master of the fear of the unknown. FearContinue reading “Fear of Extinction”
Fear of Loss of a Sense
Welcome back for the twenty-seventh day of Writober. It’s Sunday, and the last day we’ll be looking at the universal fear of loss of a sense. Fear of loss of a sense to most, I think, would instantly be the fear of losing sight, but what about not being able to hear, or feel touch?Continue reading “Fear of Loss of a Sense”
Fear of Parasites
Welcome back for the twenty-sixth day of Writober. During this fourth week we’re exploring the universal fear of mutilation. Today we’re looking at fear of parasites. A parasite is an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other’s expense. Many great horrorContinue reading “Fear of Parasites”
Fear of Torture
Welcome back for the twenty-fifth day of Writober. During this fourth week we’re exploring the universal fear of mutilation. Today we’re looking at fear of torture. Amnesty International put out this video about their efforts to stop torture around the world: Though I find the title “Torture Animation” off-putting, the message about the reality ofContinue reading “Fear of Torture”
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