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#Writober 2019 Day 4: Escaping the Cage

#OctPoWriMo Today’s theme “Cage – Pewter, Silver, or Gold” has to do with feeling caged, even in a beautiful, shiny cage. The poetry form Tetractys looks like fun. It is a form of counting syllables that can be used forward and backward. Hem No More Hem inside expecting available Not this time: without respect: IContinue reading “#Writober 2019 Day 4: Escaping the Cage”

#Writober 2019 Day 3: Inside Out

#OctPoWriMo Today’s theme is Womb. I once went to a festival that had a “womb room.” You had to walk through stuffed fabric labia to enter. My Womb The lake is a womb I return to each summer I am reborn #Writober4 The image for Day 3 on the Pinterest board shows a yard flamingoContinue reading “#Writober 2019 Day 3: Inside Out”

#Writober 2019 Day 2: Changeling

#OctPoWriMo Today’s theme is Changeling. I can really related to this theme as I often said I must have been found somewhere as a baby. I did not believe I could have been related ;). I also like the example Minute poetry form. I don’t think I have tried it before. I’ll give it aContinue reading “#Writober 2019 Day 2: Changeling”

#Writober 2019 Day 1: Dark Night of the Soul

#OctPoWriMo Today’s theme is Dark Night of the Soul. I really like this as the theme to start Writober because it gets to what flash fiction and poetry are all about: confronting the self, inspecting the human spirit, facing change and facing fears. A Shudder in the Shadows Is it that I finally see? You thatContinue reading “#Writober 2019 Day 1: Dark Night of the Soul”