#OctPoWriMo Today’s OctPoWriMo theme is Eyes or What do you see? I wrote a post about vision back when I started this blog and did a series on exploring the senses. A sight What a sight a sight for sore eyes a vision out of sight out of mind in the mind’s eye or theContinue reading “#Writober 2019 Day 9: Sight”
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#Writober Day 8: Scent
#OctPoWriMo Today’s OctPoWriMo theme is Scent. I wrote a post about smell back when I started this blog and did a series on exploring the senses. Passing Thyme Passing the pots on the porch, I fondle the herbs Thyme lingers on my fingers surprising me later with a trip to my past a pizza partyContinue reading “#Writober Day 8: Scent”
#Writober 2019 Day 7: Tongue
#OctPoWriMo Today’s OctPoWriMo theme is Tongue, Tasting and Speaking. I wrote a post about taste back when I started this blog and did a series on exploring the senses. Today’s poetry form is Tongue Twister. Bitter, Sour, Sweet Flitter glitter emitter jitter critter transmitter spitter embitters sitter knitter Deflower willpower scour our shower devour cauliflowerContinue reading “#Writober 2019 Day 7: Tongue”
#Writober 2019 Day 6: Blue
#OctPoWriMo Today’s OctPoWriMo theme is Blue. I liked all the different ways blue is used, especially “bluing the air.” I don’t remember hearing that before. Blue Sidewalk You yelled ’til you were blue in the face while the blue clad woman just won the race and the blues man played his bluest blues without hittingContinue reading “#Writober 2019 Day 6: Blue”
#Writober 2019 Day 5: Doorways
#OctPoWriMo Today’s theme is doorway- open or closed. Bop poetic form Crossing the threshold Inside Flannel pajamas covered in blankets heating pad on my belly alone in thoughtful silence imagining a better world Need a push to cross the threshold Outside People, places, things aspirations and collaborations, beauty, love fresh and new expectations, disappointments, togetherContinue reading “#Writober 2019 Day 5: Doorways”
#Writober 2019 Day 4: Escaping the Cage
#OctPoWriMo Today’s theme “Cage – Pewter, Silver, or Gold” has to do with feeling caged, even in a beautiful, shiny cage. The poetry form Tetractys looks like fun. It is a form of counting syllables that can be used forward and backward. Hem No More Hem inside expecting available Not this time: without respect: IContinue reading “#Writober 2019 Day 4: Escaping the Cage”
#Writober 2019 Day 3: Inside Out
#OctPoWriMo Today’s theme is Womb. I once went to a festival that had a “womb room.” You had to walk through stuffed fabric labia to enter. My Womb The lake is a womb I return to each summer I am reborn #Writober4 The image for Day 3 on the Pinterest board shows a yard flamingoContinue reading “#Writober 2019 Day 3: Inside Out”
#Writober 2019 Day 2: Changeling
#OctPoWriMo Today’s theme is Changeling. I can really related to this theme as I often said I must have been found somewhere as a baby. I did not believe I could have been related ;). I also like the example Minute poetry form. I don’t think I have tried it before. I’ll give it aContinue reading “#Writober 2019 Day 2: Changeling”
#Writober 2019 Day 1: Dark Night of the Soul
#OctPoWriMo Today’s theme is Dark Night of the Soul. I really like this as the theme to start Writober because it gets to what flash fiction and poetry are all about: confronting the self, inspecting the human spirit, facing change and facing fears. A Shudder in the Shadows Is it that I finally see? You thatContinue reading “#Writober 2019 Day 1: Dark Night of the Soul”
Z is for zeugma- Poems: Dive in, Creative and Zeugma
Today’s new word: zeugma n. Grammar, Rhetoric. the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way, as in to wage war and peace or On his fishing trip, he caught three troutContinue reading “Z is for zeugma- Poems: Dive in, Creative and Zeugma”
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