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A Positive Transition: It’s the little things

Today’s Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub is to write a poem about transition. A Subtle Key Change from Minor to Major though days are stolen by antsthe morning light is enchanting through the sprinklersand chickens ate my barely-growing gardenedible wild mushrooms appeared in the dying yardeverything takes longer than I want it toand theContinue reading “A Positive Transition: It’s the little things”

Proverbial Honey

dVerse Poets Pub For today’s Meet the Bar prompt, Björn introduces us to the work of John Donne and invites us to follow his eighteen line heroic sonnet form. The line about honey in Donne’s poem made me think of a couple Proverbs about honey, so I thought I would rewrite them to fit intoContinue reading “Proverbial Honey”

RNLN #14 The Prophet: Kahlil Gibran’s Exploration of Abstract Nouns

Reading Novels Like a Novelist (RNLN 14) To get back into my abstractions posts, and my reading novels like a novelist (RNLN) posts I thought I’d explore The Prophet as both. I finally read The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, originally published in 1923. The short book had been on my radar for a while, butContinue reading “RNLN #14 The Prophet: Kahlil Gibran’s Exploration of Abstract Nouns”

Me, I Emu

dVerse Poets Pub For today’s Poetics prompt, Sarah invites us to verb animals and use those verbs or verb phrases—like “horsing around” or “pigging out” or our own inventions like “eagle over” or “ant the whole hill”—in our poem. This Animal Kingdom He is always sharking—dead-eyed stare, open mouthfull of sharpnessalways moving—prowlingfor the next morselContinue reading “Me, I Emu”

Poetry Month Challenges Day 30: Zeal and Zealousness

Zeal & Zealousness Finding the contradictory nature in today’s abstract nouns was an interesting and challenging exercise. Many would say that zeal and zealousness have the same meaning, however, zeal is a feeling and zealousness is being full of or characterized by that feeling. I thought writer Harvey Ardman’s answer to the question of howContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 30: Zeal and Zealousness”

Poetry Month Challenges Day 29: Yearning and Yield

Yearning and Yield I still absolutely love the image I made for yearning last year. Much of my current yearning—strong, persistent craving or desire accompanied by tenderness or sadness for something unattainable or distant—to create thought-provoking images that express the contradictory nature of life, began last year during the A to Z challenge with myContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 29: Yearning and Yield”

Poetry Month Challenges Day 28: Xanadu and Xylography

Xanadu & Xylography Last year I had a lot of fun with Xanadu, the mythical paradise from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem Kubla Khan, and the muse’s roller-rink in the Olivia Newton John movie. I made a rollerskate filter and attempted a shape poem in the shape of a rollerskater. Today and tomorrow, with this wonderfulContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 28: Xanadu and Xylography”

Poetry Month Challenges Day 27: Wonder and Wisdom

Wonder & Wisdom Encyclopedia.com says wonder is “a state of mind excited by the perception of novelty or of something strange or not well understood. Both plato and aristotle speak of wonder as the point of origin for philosophy. In the Theaetetus, Socrates is recorded as saying, “Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, andContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 27: Wonder and Wisdom”

Poetry Month Challenges Day 26: Value and Vanity

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. Marcus Aurelius Value & Vanity I found the contradiction of value and vanity in the definition of vanity itself:Continue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 26: Value and Vanity”