I have been wanting to play with candles in my mirror world, so inspired by today’s prompt “burn,” I thought I would give it a try. November PAD Chapbook Challenge Today’s prompt is to write a remix poem. It’ll be a fun day of looking back over the poems I’ve written this month and findingContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 27: Burn to Memory”
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#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 26: Digging a Deeper Well
November PAD Chapbook Challenge Today’s prompt is to title the poem “Well (blank).” Well Digging He likes to dighe digs potatoeshe digs beetsbut he’s alsojust digging a hole.If it fills with waterwill it be a well?Or is it already a well full of ideas and potentialthat at this age doesn’tneed refilling, butonly deeper mining,a wellspringContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 26: Digging a Deeper Well”
#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 25: Thankful For
Today’s images were inspired by the happy accidents created by digital video stutters and glitches. This thanksgiving I am so thankful for digital bokeh photography. The instant images and limitless possibilities of exploration bring be so much joy. November PAD Chapbook Challenge Today’s prompt is to write a thankful poem. The Little Things uninterrupted timeContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 25: Thankful For”
#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 24: Where the Dark Goes
November PAD Chapbook Challenge Today’s prompt is to write a response poem. I thought I would write my response to the only poem I posted last year in November “Imagination’s Playground.” Logic’s Office the unimaginative deathis an office of impossibilities until the doors openand the windows let the light inand the focused light ignites aContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 24: Where the Dark Goes”
#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 23: Unplugging and Finding My New Palette
Today I thought I would find a new palette for my new filters in the mirror world, so I strung some new lights and moved the mirrors, but by a happy accident, I found that I really enjoyed the effects I found with no filter at all. November PAD Chapbook Challenge Today’s two for TuesdayContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 23: Unplugging and Finding My New Palette”
#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 22: An Animal Bent
November PAD Chapbook Challenge Today’s prompt is to write an animal poem. Bent BassThe human animal desirespleasure in the form of escapeclawing at his own sensesto tear away reality’s painbliss found in the kiss of deathpermanently polluting neuronsand nerves, then rivers and streamsmaking addicts of bass and perchjunky fish forgetting to spawnswim to exhaustion forContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 22: An Animal Bent”
#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 21: Cracking the Code
Today, I finally got to another process I’ve had in mind. I used “crack” to come up with some Yes or No questions for my Oracle, and wrote the questions with oil pastels on butcher paper. It was sunny, so I thought I’d try my concept outside before putting it in the mirror world. NovemberContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 21: Cracking the Code”
#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 20 & #SoCS: Overlapping Gray Areas
After yesterday’s fun discovery, I created a family of new filters to try. Stream of Consciousness Saturday Today’s #SoCS prompt,”black, gray, and white,” inspired me to take some rich black and white photos with my new filters. It changed how I perceived the shapes. I was more attracted to juxtaposing different shades of brightness andContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 20 & #SoCS: Overlapping Gray Areas”
#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 19: A Shadowy Future
I thought my idea for shadow wasn’t working. I created a paper shade for a lamp, thinking it would make cool patterns on the ceiling, but the paper was too thin. But then I used it over my lens hood and took it into my mirror world and got some really neat effects. November PADContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 19: A Shadowy Future”
#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 18: This Unknown Thursday
November PAD Chapbook Challenge Today’s prompt is to write a Thursday poem. Over at dVerse Poets Pub, Grace introduced the poetry form the Wayra. A short, syllabic, non-rhyming form that is new to me. She also challenged us to use onomatopoeia which fit well with my notes of the sounds of this Thursday morning. ThisContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 18: This Unknown Thursday”
Experience Writing 