Monthly Archives: April 2020

Peeved By the Prompt

Posted on April 29, 2020 by Christine Irving

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 →

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Homage to Emily

Posted on April 29, 2020 by Christine Irving

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 →

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NaPoWriMo Day 26

Posted on April 28, 2020 by Christine Irving

I really enjoyed this prompt.  I love list poems and the Almanac Questionnaire from Maureen Thorson provided a wonderful cornucopia. I didn’t use every word but managed a respectable number and played off some that didn’t make a literal appearance.  … Continue reading →

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NaPoWriMo Day Twenty-five

Posted on April 28, 2020 by Christine Irving

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 →

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Anatomy of a Fruit

Posted on April 26, 2020 by Christine Irving

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 →

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(L)etter Poem

Posted on April 24, 2020 by Christine Irving

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 →

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Dog days

Posted on April 22, 2020 by Christine Irving

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 →

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Flush

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Christine Irving

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 →

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Findings

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Christine Irving

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 →

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Small Pleasures

Posted on April 18, 2020 by Christine Irving

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 →

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