Contradictory Abstract Nouns (Photography Challenge) Today I’m looking at finding the cruelty in kindness and the kindness in cruelty. I woke up planning to turn on the lights outside and admire the kind lights in the cruel demise of the colorful leaves, but it was pouring rain: a kindness for a Nanowrimo writer who enjoysContinue reading “This Rain is a Cruel Kindness”
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Misguided Yearning for Contentment Without Agitation
Contradictory Abstract Nouns (Photography Challenge) Today I’m looking at finding the agitation in contentment and the contentment in agitation. The last time I looked at Agitation, it was as the contradiction to Calm. It was July and I was playing with my first two reflection balls. Recently I have been feeling quite contented and yesterday,Continue reading “Misguided Yearning for Contentment Without Agitation”
Woke Up Excited to Write
Contradictory Abstract Nouns (Photography Challenge) Today I’m looking at finding the indifference in awe and the awe in indifference. I thought about how the cat was blocking the front door staring at the lights, but I imagined the squirrels were indifferent. I also thought about how in awe I am of each new filter idea—theContinue reading “Woke Up Excited to Write”
The First Day of The New Month and the New Novel
Contradictory Abstract Nouns (Photography Challenge) Today I want to create an image that shows the trust in distrust and the distrust in trust. I took all of the lights that made up October’s color palette outside to decorate the driveway for the trick-or-treaters, so today, since I woke up while it was still dark, IContinue reading “The First Day of The New Month and the New Novel”
An Impromptu Combination of Combines
Continuing my Sunday visual poetry, I’m abandoning my magnets for a new overlay idea that goes well with today’s homograph “combine.” Combine As you have probably noticed, I like to unite prompts for a common purpose; many prompts join forces to create one poem. I join many ideas into a close union, creating a newContinue reading “An Impromptu Combination of Combines”
Closing Out All the April Challenges
This Sunday is the first of the month, and all the challenges are over, but I thought I would close with a visual poem guided by a homograph. Close I really enjoy homographs that have different pronunciations. Close can be an adjective or adverb; a noun or verb.Pronounced klohsadjective – near in space or time:Continue reading “Closing Out All the April Challenges”
#SoCS & Day Thirty: Moving On with Zealousness
Zealousness Ardent activity, devotion, or diligence. What is ardent? With great conviction or zeal. I have no idea why I follow circular definitions with such intense emotion; passionately and fervently; such zealousness; I guess that’s something more for me to explore. Here we are at the last day of April: the last day of NationalContinue reading “#SoCS & Day Thirty: Moving On with Zealousness”
Day Twenty-Nine: The Birth of Yearning
Yearning Yearning is a deep longing: a strong, persistent craving or desire accompanied by tenderness or sadness for something unattainable or distant. Thinking about how to represent yearning, I thought about how the other abstract nouns I’ve explored this month are entangled with yearning: Ambition, Goals, Ideas, Needs and Hopes can induce yearning; people yearnContinue reading “Day Twenty-Nine: The Birth of Yearning”
Day Twenty-Eight: Exploring Xanadu
Xanadu I had to stretch a little bit to find something that starts with X. Xanadu is a proper noun for a mythical place, but it can serve as a metaphor for opulence or an idyllic place, and that is how I intend it today for our abstraction. It is described as a “stately pleasure-dome”Continue reading “Day Twenty-Eight: Exploring Xanadu”
Day Twenty-Seven: Words of the Wise
Wisdom By definition, having wisdom is to possess a power, the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; also scholarly knowledge or learning. Many people relate wisdom to age, believing that it is accumulated over time, thus the symbol of the wise old owl. Some relate it to spiritualContinue reading “Day Twenty-Seven: Words of the Wise”
Experience Writing 