image link I first “met” Steve when I bought one of his CDs at a yard sale for 25c. I’d never heard of him before but his name as well as the title had a twanginess to them that had me hoping it would be old school country. The investment was a quarter. The CD…
Year: 2017
The Daily Prompt — Simmer
image link Annual Exam Today was annual exam day, the 2nd annual exam with this doctor. Previous health care providers have been lackluster to downright demeaning in their bedside manner. In all of the almost 60 years of having doctors, I remember my pediatrician as being a jolly older gentleman who seemed to enjoy what…
Day 31 — OctWriPoMo — Pearl Jam
image link Today is the final day of the 31 days 31 poems challenge of OctWriPoMo. My choice of form is the acrostic, and the subject is one of my favorite musical groups, Pearl Jam. The words used are all PJ song titles. Present tense, push me, pull me Even flow, Amongst the waves, animal,…
Day 30 — OctWriPoMo — Forbidden
image link Taken directly from the shadow poetry website: A Kyrielle is a French form of rhyming poetry written in quatrains (a stanza consisting of 4 lines), and each quatrain contains a repeating line or phrase as a refrain (usually appearing as the last line of each stanza). Each line within the poem consists of only…
Day 29 — OctWriPoMo — TAP TAP!
image link Taken directly from the shadow poetry website: This form is “Synchronicity” (The state or fact of being synchronous or simultaneous; synchronism. Coincidence of events that seem to be meaningfully related.). This form consists of eight three-line stanzas in a syllable pattern of 8/8/2. This poetry type has no rhyme and is written in…
Day 28 — OctWriPoMo — WORK and TRAIN
image link Today’s offerings are two poems in the Clarity Pyramid form. The first is pretty clear, it is about a sense of belonging at my job, which is in a human service field. The job is challenging, demanding, and would be impossible to do without the support of my co-workers! WORK human comradeship…
Day 27 — OctWriPoMo — Peony!
photo taken in 2015 The form is etheree, which consists of 10 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 syllables. Peony! Ah! The scent! Peony! Ginger sweetness Invades my nostrils Ants, bees, I, all called to The olfactory altar Deep within ruffled rainbows are The yellow-powdered nuggets, manna…
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