The NaPoWriMo prompt is to relax with a Skeltonic. The Poem-a-Day prompt is to write a city poem. Over at A to Z Challenge we’re reminded that this is a challenge and to Never Give Up! The Janus word is nonplussed.It can mean so surprised and confused that one is unsure how to react orContinue reading “A Pretend Trip to Palouse”
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I Couldn’t Think of Anything: ended up with way too much
I can’t believe we’re already at the halfway point. The days are flying. There’s a free online writing conference this weekend starting tomorrow called WRITEHIVE. I signed up yesterday. There are free workshops and presentations all weekend. Did any of you attend last year? I hope you’ll join me. Let me know in the commentsContinue reading “I Couldn’t Think of Anything: ended up with way too much”
From Where I’m Sitting, I Fill Up the Sky
The NaPoWriMo prompt is to write a poem about the meaning of your first or last name. The April PAD prompt is to write a poem inspired by your immediate surroundings. My Janus word for the A to Z Challenge is left.As a past tense verb, it means “to have gone”; as an adjective, itContinue reading “From Where I’m Sitting, I Fill Up the Sky”
October 8: Breaking Boundaries #OctPoWriMo #Writober and #NanoPrep
This morning’s theme “Breaking Boundaries” inspired an exciting photo adventure. I looked at things I see every day with fresh perspective. OctPoWriMo Read for inspiration and craft Louise Glück won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature. Here’s an encouraging clip of her talking about poetry. Recommended poem: Vespers by Louise GlückOnline journal: Poetry Foundation SpotlightContinue reading “October 8: Breaking Boundaries #OctPoWriMo #Writober and #NanoPrep”
What color is your portal? Change it with online paint chips.
Yesterday I started a new Coursera course: Songwriting:Writing the Lyrics with Pat Pattison through Berklee College of Music. One of the first lessons conceptualized a song as three boxes, stacked with the smallest on top. The top box fitting inside the middle box and both fitting in the bottom box. He used this imagery asContinue reading “What color is your portal? Change it with online paint chips.”
Excavating the Mind Round 2: The poem, the sequential mass
I read across the yellowing paper under the burlap sack “Attraction Dear Reader Israel-Syria River Fastest Gun JFK To Head” across from these headlines the fuzzy blue face admires, casually aware of thumb tacks ironic placement comes to light, reminding me of cyclical efforts to tirelessly beckon sleep and the weight that killing germsContinue reading “Excavating the Mind Round 2: The poem, the sequential mass”
Excavating the Mind: The poem, the sequential mass
The Dark-Eyed Junko’s Alert He greets me for the morning game of follow the leader don’t leave the door open, space will fill light paints the world with shadow our observations manipulate what we observe captured in every reflective surface, our shadows join the trees’ across the grass, the water, each other Flowers steal focus,Continue reading “Excavating the Mind: The poem, the sequential mass”
#NaPoWriMo Day 26: A Day Can Change So Quickly
The poem The Changing Days A day can change so quickly the sun slips behind the clouds limbs break in the wind becoming glass-shattering projectiles the house floods, or burns, or burns while flooding families shrink or grow chairs are shifted around the table Change will always happen childhood dreams fleeting take a lifetime toContinue reading “#NaPoWriMo Day 26: A Day Can Change So Quickly”
#NaPoWriMo Day 22: Fun With Idioms
The poem Pay The Duck Quit throwing cream into their eyes and blowing little ducks the thief has a burning hat and is pushing the facts with his belly but the pussy cat will come to the tiny door We see whose mother is spinning black wool he’s in a drifting boat with the barkContinue reading “#NaPoWriMo Day 22: Fun With Idioms”
#NaPoWriMo Day 21: International Love with Wordplay
When Maya and I first started Artifact Puzzles, she had the idea of creating a series of smaller puzzles that went together into a large puzzle. She made prints of these beautiful illustrations to Arabian Nights, but even as small puzzles, the dpi of the images wasn’t high enough, so we moved on to otherContinue reading “#NaPoWriMo Day 21: International Love with Wordplay”
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