Usually for the A to Z Challenge, since I also participate in NaPoWriMo, I choose a type or classification of words. I started with learning new words, then I branched out to musical terms, Janus words, abstract nouns, and contradictory abstract nouns. But this year, I tried something very different. I let my physical collectionContinue reading “Reflections”
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April Review and What’s Coming in May
I gave the challenges my all. I showed up every day. I began the month promising acceptance for whatever comes, and then instantly regretted it, because the unexpected came again, and again. There was nothing to do but accept it, and yet that didn’t mean I could help but want to get off the roller-coasterContinue reading “April Review and What’s Coming in May”
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”
Poetry Month Challenges Day 25: Urge and Use
Urge & Use An urge can come from without—an act of urging; impelling action, influence, or force—or within—an involuntary, natural, or instinctive impulse. An urge may come from within but then one may urge another to act on one’s urge. I’m not sure how I’m going to place urge on my chart. I found thisContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 25: Urge and Use”
Poetry Month Challenges Day 24: Thrill and Tiredness
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt Thrill & Tiredness Yesterday I felt a bit of a thrill—a sudden wave of keen emotion or excitement—while cutting out and arranging all of the photographs I’ve created and chosen to post this month. I’ve felt a tiredness—a stateContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 24: Thrill and Tiredness”
Poetry Month Challenges Day 22: Sadness and Satisfaction
Sadness & Satisfaction Satisfaction has two different meanings. It can be a feeling of contentment, fulfillment, or gratification. But it can also be the opportunity to redress or right a wrong; or compensation for a wrong or injury. In this way satisfaction is tied to revenge. Its relationship to sadness—distress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment;Continue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 22: Sadness and Satisfaction”
Experience Writing 