If you missed this morning’s prompts post, I’m responding to Pulling Back the Veil. For today’s images I spent my morning completely rebuilding my mirrorworld, and hanging a blue light curtain as my veil. I wrapped orange, green and white lights around two of my laundry basket hoops, one on top of the other, andContinue reading “The Veil That Keeps Us Blissfully Unaware”
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Oct. 12 Prompts: Pulling Back the Veil
OctPoWriMo 2023: Facing Our Fears Fear of the unknown: Write a poem made of questions to which you do not want to know the answer. It might be fun to put your questions in an Acrostic form, spelling out a technical term for a certain phobia, or an answer that would frighten you. Here’s anContinue reading “Oct. 12 Prompts: Pulling Back the Veil”
Watching the Shadows
If you missed this morning’s prompts post, I’m responding to Lurking in the Shadows. For today’s images I thought about how dark it was in my closet the other day, and turned it into a shadow puppet theater. OctPoWriMo 2023: Facing Our Fears While waiting to see if the mushrooms kill me In the slantedContinue reading “Watching the Shadows”
Oct. 11 Prompts: Lurking in the Shadows
OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears Today lets look at light and shadow in the form of a Cleave poem. The neat thing about this two column poem is it can be read as three different poems. Here’s a cleave poem I wrote in December of 2021 using bold text instead of columns: Crimson Morning Light EvenContinue reading “Oct. 11 Prompts: Lurking in the Shadows”
The Frightening Unmasking
If you missed this morning’s prompts post, I’m responding to Behind the Masks. For today’s images I made two new mask filters and took them to the mirrorworld. Since the rain has come, I think it’s time to revamp the mirrorworld specifically for the season. OctPoWriMo 2023: Facing Our Fears Over at dVerse Poets PubContinue reading “The Frightening Unmasking”
Oct. 10 Prompts: Behind the Masks
OctPoWriMo 2023: Facing Our Fears Fear of the Other: Thinking about all the masks people wear, bring to mind someone that you are afraid of. With that person in mind imagine things that that person would never say. What is the mask he or she is wearing when she says these things in your poem?Continue reading “Oct. 10 Prompts: Behind the Masks”
What I Saw in the Dark
If you missed this morning’s prompts post, I’m responding to Seeing in the Dark. For today’s images I cut a new owl filter and put tiny feathers in it. I guess third time’s a charm with owls, I like how this cut turned out, and the feather effect is also worked well. OctPoWriMo 2023: FacingContinue reading “What I Saw in the Dark”
Oct. 9 Prompts: Seeing in the Dark
OctPoWriMo 2023: Facing Our Fears Afraid of the dark: Sit in a dark room. Sit long enough for your eyes to adjust, and describe what you see. If you feel comfortable and it’s safe to, walk around in the dark room. Write a poem about the experience of adjusting to the dark and why weContinue reading “Oct. 9 Prompts: Seeing in the Dark”
How the Bones Connected
It’s hard to believe we’re starting the second week of October already (and I went swimming in the lake yesterday). I felt like it took me some time to get warmed up this year. How about you? Hopefully this second week will find us in the flow. If you missed this morning’s prompts post, I’mContinue reading “How the Bones Connected”
Oct. 8 Prompts: Connecting the Bones
OctPoWriMo 2023: Facing Our Fears For today’s poem, pick a piece of prose: a piece of horror flash fiction, or short story, and pick through its bones to create a piece of found poetry. You don’t have to present it as an erasure poem, but that can be fun. Here’s an example of an erasureContinue reading “Oct. 8 Prompts: Connecting the Bones”
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