#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 30: The End of November Challenges is Only the Beginning

This morning I went out to get a picture of my first winter flower, and took some shots into the house. November PAD Chapbook Challenge Today’s final prompt of the challenge is a two for Tuesday: Write a the end poem, and/or… Write a the beginning poem. Only the Beginning This is not an endbutContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 30: The End of November Challenges is Only the Beginning”

#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 29: The Next Slant

This morning the sun came out and did my work for me. Mr. Kitty is known in the biz to be an uncooperative model, but he didn’t know today’s theme was slant. It’s a good day to reread Tell all the truth but tell it slant by Emily Dickinson. November PAD Chapbook Challenge Today’s promptContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 29: The Next Slant”

#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 28: Reclaiming My Time

For today’s images, I crumpled up the photos that I tore up for my visual poetry and let them reclaim the light in the mirror world. I love the way the lights reflect off the crumpled glossy photo paper. November PAD Chapbook Challenge Today’s prompt is to write a slow down poem. To Reclaim MyContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 28: Reclaiming My Time”

#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 26: Digging a Deeper Well

November PAD Chapbook Challenge Today’s prompt is to title the poem “Well (blank).” Well Digging He likes to dighe digs potatoeshe digs beetsbut he’s alsojust digging a hole.If it fills with waterwill it be a well?Or is it already a well full of ideas and potentialthat at this age doesn’tneed refilling, butonly deeper mining,a wellspringContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 26: Digging a Deeper Well”

#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 25: Thankful For

Today’s images were inspired by the happy accidents created by digital video stutters and glitches. This thanksgiving I am so thankful for digital bokeh photography. The instant images and limitless possibilities of exploration bring be so much joy. November PAD Chapbook Challenge Today’s prompt is to write a thankful poem. The Little Things uninterrupted timeContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 25: Thankful For”

#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 24: Where the Dark Goes

November PAD Chapbook Challenge Today’s prompt is to write a response poem. I thought I would write my response to the only poem I posted last year in November “Imagination’s Playground.” Logic’s Office the unimaginative deathis an office of impossibilities until the doors openand the windows let the light inand the focused light ignites aContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 24: Where the Dark Goes”

#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 22: An Animal Bent

November PAD Chapbook Challenge Today’s prompt is to write an animal poem. Bent BassThe human animal desirespleasure in the form of escapeclawing at his own sensesto tear away reality’s painbliss found in the kiss of deathpermanently polluting neuronsand nerves, then rivers and streamsmaking addicts of bass and perchjunky fish forgetting to spawnswim to exhaustion forContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 22: An Animal Bent”

#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 21: Cracking the Code

Today, I finally got to another process I’ve had in mind. I used “crack” to come up with some Yes or No questions for my Oracle, and wrote the questions with oil pastels on butcher paper. It was sunny, so I thought I’d try my concept outside before putting it in the mirror world. NovemberContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 21: Cracking the Code”