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Monthly Archives: April 2020
Peeved By the Prompt
Okay, we’re all a little tired as we come down the home stretch. Also nerves are frayed from seclusion, the lack of fusion food, and low bars – not to mention movies, baseball games, TGIF and play schools, but hey! … Continue reading
Homage to Emily
I’m mad forEmily Dickinson. Her poems are like messages in a bottle, that I’ve been lucky enough to uncork and read, beach combing by myself some early morning by the sea. Her poems are not about the ocean or even … Continue reading
NaPoWriMo Day Twenty-five
Being prompted to write like James Schuyler, and in particular to his Hymn to Life, was incredibly daunting. The only way I managed was to read it several times, listen to the poet read his poem and then to write, … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, NaPoWriMo, Nature, Poetry, Water
Tagged cardinals, Hoa Nguyen, James Schuyler, NaPoWriMo, poetry, Water
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Anatomy of a Fruit
NaPoWriMo the challenge for Day 24 was to write about a fruit. It’s taken a couple of days to get to it. Not that there’s any dearth of fruit about which to wax poetic. No it was just the blahs … Continue reading
(L)etter Poem
Today’s NaPoWriMoprompt (optional, as always) asked us to write a poem about a particular letter of the alphabet, or perhaps, the letters that form a short word. Doesn’t “S” look sneaky and snakelike? And “W” clearly doesn’t know where it’s … Continue reading
Dog days
This challenge, to write about an animal companion, was posted by Linda Lee Lyberg in Poetics at the D’Verse Poets Pub. I have to admit I loved Scooter’s presence, but pets are dependents who never grow-up and move away, until they die, which sucks. … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, beauty, dVerse, Poetry
Tagged American Cocker Spaniels, d'Verse Poets Pub, dogs, pets, Scooter
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Flush
Quadrille #102 – Don’t Forget To… by Mish Okay, time to flush out forty-four words exactly, not counting the title for today’s challenge at the d’verse Poets Pub. My poem a couple of days ago, detailing a small pleasure, conformed so … Continue reading
Posted in dVerse, NaPoWriMo, Nonsense, Poetry, quadrille, Uncategorized
Tagged d'Verse Poets Pub, Flush, NaPoWriMo, prompts, quadrille
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Findings
I try not to bring home natural objects anymore – too much time in state parks I think. Probably more to do with being an inveterate sign-reader, so I get why things should stay where they fall. Not that we … Continue reading
Small Pleasures
Today we write an ode to life’s small pleasures, continuing into our eighteenth day of a writing poem a day with NaPoWriMo encouragement. I’d like to say that it’s no small pleasure to discover the chapbooks to which we’ve been … Continue reading
Posted in Gratitude, NaPoWriMo, Poetry
Tagged Guadalupe, Maureen Thorson, NaPoWriMo, small pleasures
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