Part of the prompts for today’s OctPoWriMo includes: “Have you ever had a moment in time that you wished you could stop and live in? Have you ever wished you could control time even if for just a little while? What would you do? What moment would you make last longer? Write about time and what…
Author: Lisa or Li
mother, grandmother, gardener, observer of nature, reader, writer, learner, bicyclist, woman who runs with the wolves, lover of music, philosophical daoist. Welcome.
Alphabet Haiku Challenge ~P
pink peonies perched precariously presumed pretty pickable
Poetry Day 19 — “What do you want?”
Prompts, etc. for today’s OctWriPoMo include: “What do you want?” …your poem might address someone else… yourself … a thing, person, place, or something else entirely. One of the suggested forms is contrapuntal . “In the poetic world, contrapuntal poems are poems that intertwine two (or more) separate poems into a single composition–often by offering…
Poetry Day 18 — The Tale of the Flipped Script
image link Today’s prompts for OctWriPoMo include: Castles, fairy godmothers, glass slippers, and enchanted roses. When you hear the words “once upon a time” these items might be what it brings to mind. Say those four words aloud and it might make you anticipate something magical, something ethereal, something beyond the ordinary. When was the…
Fall night sky while listening to PJ
Eddie and The Boys, “Crown of Thorns”, while driving home tonight.
Poetry Day 17 — Trigger
image link Part of today’s prompt for OctWriPoMo is: Does madness rule over me/you/us/them? Does madness fall from the sky in misty dampness, occasional showers, and torrential flooding downpours? Do I/you/we/they hold the reins, controlling the madness? Use your brainstorming to create a poem that expresses your thoughts/feelings around “madness”. Invisible finger on the…
Poetry Day 16 — Catch me when I fall
Today’s poetry prompts for OctWriPoMo includes: Catch Me When I Fall. Finding that person who will support you at every turn is such an important part of any relationship. Also significant is what happens after the fall. How would you describe the balance between giving support and receiving it? I didn’t follow the form prompt…
Tao-Talk 