PHOTO PROMPT © Lisa Fox It’s Always Christmas Vacationing in Mexico, I enter an American-style cafe to escape the heat and get a good old-fashioned hamburger. Cool air soothes my sunburn as la antifriona walks me to a cozy nook in the back. I study the décor while waiting for el mesero. Although July, it’s…
WMM 2026 Day 11 — Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-53)
Ruth Crawford Seeger (link takes you to a decent article with other pictures of her.)Images courtesy of Peggy Seeger. Ruth Crawford Seeger (nee Ruth Porter Crawford) (b. 7/3/1901 – 11/18/1953) was an American composer and musicologist. Her music heralded the emerging modernist aesthetic, and she became a central member of a group of American composers known as the “ultramodernists.” She…
dVerse — Poetics Tuesday — The Worm Turns
The Turning Of The Worm,Painting by Christian Michael The Worm Turns Plot points on a small map, where I travel no furtherthan scattershot; wet in settler’s muck where I wiggle, human worm, blind, underground, catalyzing compost. Churning waste to sleepy dreamer’s gold, I rise, emerge,shadow from shadows, with an urge to breathe; sniff frightened, decaying…
WMM 2026 Day 10 — Melissa McLelland
Melissa McLelland [W]hen I started singing anything that had a hint of the blues in it or gospel, it just opened my voice up. It stretched everything out. I love those beautiful, slow, spacious songs where I can just enjoy singing. — Melissa McLelland, in an interview at Write On Music. Melissa McLelland press photo…
A to Z 2026 (aka A2Z) Theme Reveal!
Hello All! I’ve done A2Z for 4 previous years (2019-2021 and 2025.) I’m in for 2026 as well. My theme will be Goddesses from All Times and All Places. Isn’t it about time us Goddesses take the spotlight? It is hoped that during the month of April the readers will look for that of the…
dVerse Q243 — Be a Bird
Be a Bird Be a bird,hued or drab,warbling or silent,wafting or waddling,building or nesting,migrating or staying put,preening or molting,hunting or pecking,diving or swimming,lightbound or darkbound,predator or prey,hopping or dancingearth, sky, sea;choosing whereverfree be. De (aka whimsygizmo) is today’s host of dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. De wants us to write a 44-word poem using the word bird.
WMM 2026 Day 9 — Feist
FeistL’auteure-compositrice-interprète Feist ©Getty – David Wolff – Patrick/Redferns per wikipedia:Leslie Feist, (b.2/13/76) is known mononymously as Feist; she’s a Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter and guitarist, performing both as a solo artist and as a member of the indie rock group Broken Social Scene. Early YearsLeslie was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her parents are both…
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