The author reflects on the positive start to NaPoWriMo, celebrating acceptance and self-acceptance. They also share plans for writing and reading poetry throughout the month, embracing new challenges and opportunities.
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What to Expect Here at Experience Writing this April
The author shares plans for NaPoWriMo, including a focus on poetry magazines, daily prompts, and poetry immersion through classes, videos, and sensory experiences.
Collective Behavior of Lemmings
Yesterday’s Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub was to use the concept of leaping in a poem. I’ve been exploring collective motion and behaviors in my photography this last week, so this prompt made me think of lemmings. I started searching for photographs of lemmings leaping over a cliff and found this Disney documentary fromContinue reading “Collective Behavior of Lemmings”
Poetry Wordfall Cascades
The dVerse Poets Pub prompt calls for a Cascade form poem with repeated lines. Berg’s “The Rush of a Wordfall” explores the impact of words on interpretation and the neuroscience behind art.
Before His Obsession with Knots
A boy’s tragic loss leads to a disfigured villain. His heartache drives him to harm others. A dark prequel poem unfolds.
A New Year, A New Look for 2024
New Theme Here we are in a new year and I finally found a new WordPress theme that I think will work with Experience Writing. I’m trying “Hever” which is supposed to adapt across devices, moved all the widgets to the footer, and most importantly, doesn’t have that weird text overlap spacing issue with headersContinue reading “A New Year, A New Look for 2024”
My Halloween Horror Movie
There’s a fun prompt over at Poetic Bloomings today. Prompt #357 is Featured Presentation: choose a Halloween movie as a title or make up a Halloween movie title of your own as the title of a poem. The Gathering We savor our horrorespecially this time of yearto experience fearsvicariously in dark safetyto shiver and quiverwhileContinue reading “My Halloween Horror Movie”
Revising Poetry-a Demonstration Part Eight: Revise, Get Feedback, Revise Again
Revise After looking at all my redrafts, I made a few more changes to my poem and was about to upload it to Scribophile, when I saw that in this version the poem read in couplets. Here is the version I uploaded to Scribophile for critique: Cleaning All the Dirty Dishes An impression arrests fruitContinue reading “Revising Poetry-a Demonstration Part Eight: Revise, Get Feedback, Revise Again”
Fungi poetry: such a great prompt!
Today’s Tuesday Poetics prompt at the dVerse Poets Pub is all about fungi. Mushroom poems–and I was just looking at Alice in Wonderland images. I had so many ideas while reading the prompt poems. Here goes: Fungous Circle My Swedish Mom took me mushroom huntingspecifically for chanterelles, small orange ruffles hiding among the stones andContinue reading “Fungi poetry: such a great prompt!”
October 31: Happy Halloween!! #OctPoWriMo #Writober and #NanoPrep
OctPoWriMo It’s the last day of OctPoWriMo. Thank you, Morgan Dragonwillow, for hosting and for your inspiring prompts. Thank you to everyone who participated for your camaraderie and sharing your poetry. It was a productive and creative month. I’m very excited about finally making the step in my exploration of klecksography to draw on myContinue reading “October 31: Happy Halloween!! #OctPoWriMo #Writober and #NanoPrep”
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