Today being Sunday, there is no A to Z. Here is my poem in response to the prompts at NaPoWriMo and Writer’s Digest’s Poem a Day Challenge. New Depths The frontman gets all the gloryeven here in the depthsof the underwater kingdomwhere do they think the processionalmusic is coming from as theyparade their daughtersbefore him?Continue reading “New Depths”
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A Day of Rest
Two of my poems (first drafts) were discussed on Rattle’s Critique of the Week this week. Watch this video to share in this exciting learning experience: Today being Sunday, there is no A to Z. Here is my poem in response to the prompts at NaPoWriMo and Writer’s Digest’s Poem a Day Challenge. Easter BunnyContinue reading “A Day of Rest”
Full Circle
Today being Sunday, there is no A to Z today. Here is my poem in response to the prompts at NaPoWriMo and Writer’s Digest’s Poem a Day Challenge. Full Circle 1.Here I am again: Again I’ve come full circle.The flowers come too soon with so much left to dostalled upside down in the loop-de-loop ofContinue reading “Full Circle”
Summer Seeds
Today being Sunday, there is no A to Z today. Here is my poem in response to the prompts at NaPoWriMo and Writer’s Digest’s Poem a Day Challenge. Watermelon My whole face puckerstongue out, licking air searching for balancesome release from the sickly sweetgushing after the firstcrisp bite A splash of summertoo pink and stickypittedContinue reading “Summer Seeds”
Poetry Month Challenges Day 30: Zeal and Zealousness
Zeal & Zealousness Finding the contradictory nature in today’s abstract nouns was an interesting and challenging exercise. Many would say that zeal and zealousness have the same meaning, however, zeal is a feeling and zealousness is being full of or characterized by that feeling. I thought writer Harvey Ardman’s answer to the question of howContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 30: Zeal and Zealousness”
Poetry Month Challenges Day 29: Yearning and Yield
Yearning and Yield I still absolutely love the image I made for yearning last year. Much of my current yearning—strong, persistent craving or desire accompanied by tenderness or sadness for something unattainable or distant—to create thought-provoking images that express the contradictory nature of life, began last year during the A to Z challenge with myContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 29: Yearning and Yield”
Poetry Month Challenges Day 28: Xanadu and Xylography
Xanadu & Xylography Last year I had a lot of fun with Xanadu, the mythical paradise from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem Kubla Khan, and the muse’s roller-rink in the Olivia Newton John movie. I made a rollerskate filter and attempted a shape poem in the shape of a rollerskater. Today and tomorrow, with this wonderfulContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 28: Xanadu and Xylography”
Poetry Month Challenges Day 27: Wonder and Wisdom
Wonder & Wisdom Encyclopedia.com says wonder is “a state of mind excited by the perception of novelty or of something strange or not well understood. Both plato and aristotle speak of wonder as the point of origin for philosophy. In the Theaetetus, Socrates is recorded as saying, “Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, andContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 27: Wonder and Wisdom”
Poetry Month Challenges Day 26: Value and Vanity
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. Marcus Aurelius Value & Vanity I found the contradiction of value and vanity in the definition of vanity itself:Continue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 26: Value and Vanity”
Poetry Month Challenges Day 25: Urge and Use
Urge & Use An urge can come from without—an act of urging; impelling action, influence, or force—or within—an involuntary, natural, or instinctive impulse. An urge may come from within but then one may urge another to act on one’s urge. I’m not sure how I’m going to place urge on my chart. I found thisContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 25: Urge and Use”
Experience Writing 