Today’s offering is in the following form: The Blitz Poem, a poetry form created by Robert Keim. The prompts for today’s OctPoWriMo includes, “If I Were You. Are there things you sometimes need to get off your chest? When was the last time you felt strongly that someone needed to see things from your point…
Month: October 2018
Poetry Day 12 — Lunch with Mom
Part of OctPoWriMo prompt today talks about tortured in the context of love, where, “Torture is defined as ‘the action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or to force them to do or say something, or for the pleasure of the person inflicting the pain.’ ” One of the suggested…
Poetry Day 11 — Arthur
image link — note this is Arthur Today’s OctPoWriMo’s prompt is about falling through the cracks. My definition of falling through the cracks means to be overlooked or forgotten. Today’s suggested cascade form is inspired by when I went and helped my son and his wife volunteer at a cat shelter a few weeks back. …
Poetry Day 10 — Drug of Choice
Drip drip drip from my heart throbbing pulsing coursing through from main arteries to capillaries each cell saturated mitochondria blazing as the walls are breached with the elixir of you.
Word of the Day Challenge — Manifesto
in the confined spaces of her mind there exists a world, complete, all she has to do is capture it on paper then share it with the world. if only they’d see, see what she has so carefully worked out in the confines of her brain they would understand. why can’t they try? their eyes,…
Day 9 — Love Bird
image link The poetry form, Etheree, consists of 10 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 syllables. Etheree can also be reversed and written 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Get creative and write an Etheree with more than one verse, but follow suit with an…
Day 8 — Possession of Illusion
image link Today’s prompt for OctWriPoMo included: Falling in love can feel like falling into madness. “Does he really love me or is it just lust?” Second guessing everything until you feel like you are going mad. Write into your moments of madness whether it had to do with love or something you became obsessed…
Tao Talk 