April is almost here! My days are flying by too quickly. Yesterday, I signed up for the blogging A to Z challenge. This will be my fourth year combining National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo) with the blogging A to Z challenge. I enjoy how the poetry prompts and the words I choose for the challengeContinue reading “April’s Blogging A to Z challenge: contronyms, antagonyms, or auto-antonyms. Oh, my!”
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#NaPoWriMo Day 30: When Zeal Returns
I thought a couple of my fabric glass light boxes were nice illustrations for today’s return poem, but the way they were hanging on the wall wasn’t conducive to the photographs I wanted, so I rearranged them. It felt weird, but good, pulling them off the wall and swapping them around, plugging them in andContinue reading “#NaPoWriMo Day 30: When Zeal Returns”
#NaPoWriMo Day 29: The penultimate poem
The poem Total Trickster It’s a complicated relationship but then, isn’t every relationship–complicated We keep it casual He wanders over on a whim takes a nap on my porch either in the chair where I like to read or the cushion on the bench When I notice him, I go out to say Hello sometimes,Continue reading “#NaPoWriMo Day 29: The penultimate poem”
#NaPoWriMo Day 28: When there is nothing but memories
The poem The Best Rooms Are Too X-rated Thinking through the bedrooms so many bedrooms moving and moving trying to make something mine I tried to settle on one to mentally linger, loiter describe in detail like a capsule through time I wanted it to be a happy place full of growth and creative industryContinue reading “#NaPoWriMo Day 28: When there is nothing but memories”
#NaPoWriMo Day 27: Massive Wonderment
The poem A Review of Wonderment At first glance, it can be confusing and a little bit scary the rush of heightened perception opening the senses to floods of emotion when facing the tremendous unknown The impressive beauty of discovery sparking the creative mind to sort through the behemoth array of memories and form newContinue reading “#NaPoWriMo Day 27: Massive Wonderment”
#NaPoWriMo Day 25: To Study This Twinkling
A to Z Challenge variation(s) – the transformation of a melody or theme with changes or elaborations in harmony, rhythm, and melody. vibration – Any rapid, repeating undulatory or tremulous movement; it is vibration that causes all sound. virtuoso – One who is extremely skilled at performing upon an instrument NaPoWriMo Prompt: Writing After JamesContinue reading “#NaPoWriMo Day 25: To Study This Twinkling”
#NaPoWriMo Day 24: Nature’s Candy
A to Z Challenge unison – interval formed by two parts on the same pitch NaPoWriMo Prompt: write about a particular fruit PAD Challenge Prompt: write a nature poem The poem Californian Mandarin Cutie Strong dimpled flesh in my favorite color the perfect size for the palm of my hand peels away revealing chalky off-whiteContinue reading “#NaPoWriMo Day 24: Nature’s Candy”
#NaPoWriMo Day 23: Social Studies and the letter T
A to Z Challenge tacet – silent, no part given for a particular instrument or voice during a section of music tie – curved line over or under two notes of the same pitch, notes are sounded once and held for the value of both tremolo – the note is repeated as fast as possibleContinue reading “#NaPoWriMo Day 23: Social Studies and the letter T”
#NaPoWriMo Day 22: Fun With Idioms
The poem Pay The Duck Quit throwing cream into their eyes and blowing little ducks the thief has a burning hat and is pushing the facts with his belly but the pussy cat will come to the tiny door We see whose mother is spinning black wool he’s in a drifting boat with the barkContinue reading “#NaPoWriMo Day 22: Fun With Idioms”
#NaPoWriMo Day 21: International Love with Wordplay
When Maya and I first started Artifact Puzzles, she had the idea of creating a series of smaller puzzles that went together into a large puzzle. She made prints of these beautiful illustrations to Arabian Nights, but even as small puzzles, the dpi of the images wasn’t high enough, so we moved on to otherContinue reading “#NaPoWriMo Day 21: International Love with Wordplay”
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