Steadfast-slab Soliloquy set in stonea tome, a tombslow to erodeunmoved by storm’swet starved moanleftovers tornforlorn, stone coldbones hold known tonesstrummed by the stubbornturned to stonestruck, stuck outta luckstored enduring alonea stone’s throwfrom home Today’s Quadrille #137 prompt from De Jackson at dVerse is to “carve a poem out of the word stone.” The Quadrille isContinue reading “Stone Soup Poem”
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My Skeleton and Other Wild Animals: #OctPoWriMo & #Writober Day 4
Today’s theme for #tshalloweenchallenge is Skeleton. I’m so glad I found this challenge yesterday. I’m finding it very inspiring. Yesterday, I started looking through my Halloween fabrics and today, I started playing with my Halloween decorations. For once in a long while, my Halloween might not feel rushed and last minute. OctPoWriMo Today’s prompt isContinue reading “My Skeleton and Other Wild Animals: #OctPoWriMo & #Writober Day 4”
#OctPoWriMo & #Writober Day 3
OctPoWriMo Fun News! The prompts are up at OctPoWriMo 2021! Today’s prompt is “Contemplation.” This prompt made me think of the work I did on “reflections” last month, and inspired me to take some mirror in mirror photos I had been too insecure to do before. The OctPoWriMo prompt for Day 3 (from 2018) isContinue reading “#OctPoWriMo & #Writober Day 3”
My Consciousness Streams on Day 2: #OctPoWriMo #Writober #SoSC
Though today is Day 2 of OctPoWriMo and Writober, it’s also Stream of Consciousness Saturday, so I thought I would start the day with some thoughts on “inspire/aspire/expire.” Unedited Stream of Consciousness At first I thought of the note I made yesterday about surrender: hope/disappointment/death and it fits. After looking up the words and findingContinue reading “My Consciousness Streams on Day 2: #OctPoWriMo #Writober #SoSC”
#OctPoWriMo & #Writober Day 1: Surrender
Welcome to the first day of October! OctPoWriMo I woke up excited to get started on my first poem of October’s yearly poem-a-day challenge, and headed straight to the OctPoWriMo site. Though the heading on the Home page says “OctPoWriMo 2021”, the prompt is still the Day 31 prompt from last year. So, I hadContinue reading “#OctPoWriMo & #Writober Day 1: Surrender”
Fun With Mirrors
The Dverse Poets Pub’s challenge today is to try the Mirrored Refrain form created by Stephanie Repnyek. It looks like a fun challenge of rhyme and repetition. Here goes: A Needed Rest Fireflies’ sparks among the murmur,relief within the monotonous slop,illuminate the eighth-note rest,thrust of syncopation, surprise stop. A small puncture to the drone,the pointContinue reading “Fun With Mirrors”
Playing with Anapests in Monotetra
Today’s Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub is to use a movie quote in a poem. Mish provided a list to choose from. When I saw “It’s alive! It’s alive!” from Frankenstein (1931), the repetition reminded me of a poetry form. I looked back through my poems from last OctPoWriMo and found it in myContinue reading “Playing with Anapests in Monotetra”
Dactyls Dactyls Everywhere: not a ptero in sight.
Conviviality dance to the, dance to themusic of Chopin andwaltz with me, waltz with meround a nice fantasykeep up appearancessentimentalitiesbackhanded complimentsblacking out promises dance with me, dance with meturning me endlesslywaltz to the, waltz to themockingbird murmuringvisitors’ vanitiesblushing with jealousyechoing, echoingover the wonderful fantasy Today’s Meet the bar prompt at dVerse Poets Pub is toContinue reading “Dactyls Dactyls Everywhere: not a ptero in sight.”
Pleasure of Poetry
My previous post, the last in my redrafting demonstration, was about emulating a poem or poet. Today, the Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub takes that to a whole new level. Laura challenges us to write a poem either about one of our favorite poets, or addressing a poet in direct voice. I think I’llContinue reading “Pleasure of Poetry”
Great Balls of Fire! A getaway pegacorn happens!
Last week I found two Sunday writing prompts. Let’s see what they have for me today: Poetic Bloomings‘ PROMPT #334 is “It Happens” and Mindlovesmisery’s Menagerie‘s Sunday Writing Prompt is “Great Balls of Fire” I thought I would combine the prompts and was mid-freewrite with the ideas, but then something happened. 🙂 Flying Free onContinue reading “Great Balls of Fire! A getaway pegacorn happens!”
Experience Writing 