Writober Recap This Writober was a huge success. Thank you everyone who participated, linking up their images, poems, and stories. Your work was intriguing, thought provoking, entertaining, and fun. And you kept me inspired to keep working every day. Congratulations to Circe of Baldacchino di Perla, ladyleemanila, Carol anne at Therapy Bits, and A.M. MoscosoContinue reading “November Expectations”
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Lonely in a Crowd
These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Loneliness. OctPoWriMo Loneliness Arrives Uninvited not a lone wolf but a skunk in a funkor a slug on a sofaslimy and staleslowly oozingleaving sticky trails not a peacock but anamoeba, a parasite of painlike knives stabbingfrom the insideonce it gets init never wants toContinue reading “Lonely in a Crowd”
Isolated Incident
These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Isolation. OctPoWriMo Today’s poem was really fun. During Friday Gathering we did a revision exercise. I looked back at the poem I wrote on October 11th last year and used n+7 on some of the words, meaning I looked up the word in theContinue reading “Isolated Incident”
Sounds in the Darkness
These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Darkness. OctPoWriMo Today is Open Link Night at dVerse Poets Pub, so link up today’s poem, or your favorite poem you wrote this week. Sanaa also provides a mini prompt that fits nicely with our fear of separation prompts: Consider this line from EdnaContinue reading “Sounds in the Darkness”
Hope’s Tollbooth
These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Rejection. OctPoWriMo No Fear of Rejection The suits push the Benjaminswith the zeroes and onesand if you don’t play alongyou’re just one of the numberssubtracted as a costof their living The rejected and discardedthe husks and the chaffedshuffled and scuffleduntil some new mouthpiecefrom someContinue reading “Hope’s Tollbooth”
Reclamation
These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Abandonment. I really enjoyed how the prompts came together today. Like my experience with my photo-walk yesterday, looking for fear of abandonment made me think about its opposite, reclamation. When a building is abandoned, nature reclaims it. When objects are abandoned, they may laterContinue reading “Reclamation”
Separation Awareness
These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Writober Week Two: Separation. OctPoWriMo Lost in the Forest In the lost-witch forest tall trees closein the lost witch forest the same trees passed againin the lost-witch forest trees separate and isolatein the lost-witch forest the separated are lost In the lost-witch darkness frog chirps frighteninContinue reading “Separation Awareness”
Successful Avoidance
These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Sounds of Words: Euphony. OctPoWriMo Fear of Success Each mile reachedonly rolls out anotherlevels climbed reveala higher plateau stars do not shine brightertwinkling echoes of lightsnuffed out long agoThe only way to break the circleto loose the tail from the fangis to never aimor learn toContinue reading “Successful Avoidance”
Always Failing Better
I’m really getting into all the universal fear prompts for this week. I experienced some ego death in a dream last night that reminded me of a really embarrassing thing that happened to me in high school and then, I experienced upsetting ego death having to do with an imposter OctPoWriMo, but I realized myContinue reading “Always Failing Better”
What a Shame
These days are flying by. There’s never enough time for everything I want to do. What a shame. Here are my responses to the Writober Day 3 prompts in Sounds of Words: Assonance and Consonance. OctPoWriMo For today’s poem, I looked at my entire wordlist so far looking for assonance and consonance and found theContinue reading “What a Shame”
Experience Writing 