For today’s Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub, Sarah encourages us to celebrate National Weed Appreciation Day. Over at National Day Calendar I found some tips on how to observe this day of appreciation: HOW TO OBSERVE WEED APPRECIATION DAY And I’ll add: Last year I discovered that I can put a small weed onContinue reading “A Weed is a Flower in the Wild”
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My Place in Space
For today’s Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub, Ingrid urged us to “write the poetry of the places and/or spaces which inspire you the most.” What a wonderful prompt for the first sunny spring day of 2023 here at Lake Tapps. Once Upon a Lake Tapps Spring Today the Mountain peeks from behind the cloudslikeContinue reading “My Place in Space”
The Joy of Play
The Poetics prompt at dVerse today is play. I was inspired to play with motion in the mirror world with my new filters which was fun. And for my poem I played with the answer ball I created over a year ago. The answer ball is a ball of photographs of specific nouns. The ideaContinue reading “The Joy of Play”
Written in the Stars
Today’s prompt for Quadrille Monday at dVerse Poets Pub is “star.” I’ve been playing around with creating found poetry from The Complete Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper (1653), one of the texts suggested for submissions to the next issue of Heron Tree. Culpeper believed that the medicinal properties of herbs were connected to stars and planets,Continue reading “Written in the Stars”
Memento Poetry Form
The Meeting the Bar prompt at dVerse Poets Pub is a new to me poetry form called “Memento.” The Memento form “created by Emily Romano is a poem about a holiday or an anniversary, consisting of two stanzas as follows: the syllable count should be 8 beats for line one; 6 beats for line two;Continue reading “Memento Poetry Form”
Juxtaposing Last Year’s Lines
After We Said Goodnight We have said goodnight butbuckle up and hold on as hearts buckle The rope hangs from the reaching branchHead held high, enjoying the sun on my shoulders,I begin my journey At my magical realism hotel wherethe air is thick with itagitation nags, it’s tickling The fan whirs in the windowIn theContinue reading “Juxtaposing Last Year’s Lines”
Dream Imagery
The poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub is to “write a poem inspired by a vision, dream, or both.” I tried to do the spoon in the bowl trick to induce a dream state, but all I saw was a big orange square of color with a read shadow moving around, so I decided toContinue reading “Dream Imagery”
Quadrille Monday: A Bold New Poem
Today at dVerse Poets Pub it’s quadrille Monday which means we are writing poems of exactly 44 words and today, De Jackson has offered the word “bold” to inspire and be included in the poem. “Bold” is also a great word to inspire today’s images. Life of the Party I want to be bolda grandContinue reading “Quadrille Monday: A Bold New Poem”
Grief in Happiness and Happiness in Grief
Exploring the Big 5 abstractions is proving an interesting challenge. Turning my attention to happiness, I found some interesting websites: Happiness Academy World Happiness Foundation happiness.com https://www.dayofhappiness.net/ https://happinessday.org/ outlines 10 steps to Global Happiness: They define global happiness this way: Of course, none of those definitions actually define happiness which I contemplated a bit inContinue reading “Grief in Happiness and Happiness in Grief”
Do Our Ideas About Beauty and Ugliness Change When We Close Our Eyes?
This morning I did a search for “the ugliness in beauty” and found a couple of really interesting articles: The Biological Response to Beauty and Ugliness in Art [Excerpt] by Eric Kandel 2012 from Scientific American Experiences of Ugliness in Nature and Urban environments by Fatima M. Felisberti from International Association of Empirical Aesthetics TheContinue reading “Do Our Ideas About Beauty and Ugliness Change When We Close Our Eyes?”
Experience Writing 