New Poem Today’s Poetics prompt from Merril at the dVerse Poets Pub is “Passions Stamped on Lifeless Things.” I really like this quote from Percy Shelley’s Ozymandias. The challenge is to write a poem about an historical artifact. I’m reading The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston right now, so I thoughtContinue reading “I Sing of Future Artifacts”
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The Elves Come Out at Night
I had some other plans, but I like how my new filters turned out, so I went with it. New Poem Morning Dance The baseboard heater ticks. It has no rhythm.The bathroom fan also dances to chaos,a Mandelbrot of rattles and hums.Tossing care I lose my patternand pass some time grateful for heat,cold’s defeat inContinue reading “The Elves Come Out at Night”
Cheery Christmas Spirits
I knew today’s photo challenge “cheer” was going to be tough. My cold is holding on tight and I spent the night coughing and shivering, but I was determined. So I made no-bake healthy oatmeal cookies to eat like Santa all day, and put on a Christmas record. Just as “Rudolph’s Christmas Party” started toContinue reading “Cheery Christmas Spirits”
#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 27: Burn to Memory
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”
#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 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”
#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 2: Startled! I Wasn’t Ready.
This morning’s photoshoot was fun and successful. For “startle” I thought about the way the body jerks when we’re startled, and played with camera motion with some bokeh of my neighbors’ lights across the lake. I love the color palette created by the security lights in the dark November PAD Chapbook Challenge Today is twoContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 2: Startled! I Wasn’t Ready.”
#OctPoWriMo Day 30 & #SoCS: The Sun Came Out and the World is a Party
Here’s the November daily prompts calendar I mentioned on Thursday. These words are much more abstract than the Halloween Challenge, but I’m hoping they will challenge me to create photographs that represent and inspire the feeling of these words while I work on my novel. I hope you will join me and post your linksContinue reading “#OctPoWriMo Day 30 & #SoCS: The Sun Came Out and the World is a Party”
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