image link Today’s Word of the Day challenge is doleful. Having a little fun today with a limerick! expecting a bowlful of berries sigh, doleful – they only had cherries inconvenient the pits even more so the sh*ts with a book on the throne he tarries
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.
Young Charlotte, or The Frozen Maid
“Sleigh Ride” by Cornelius Krieghoff As a starving person’s focus becomes their gnawing hunger, so does trying to stay warm become the focus of a person who can’t find warmth. Today was one of those days. I give you now the poem that Maine poet, Seba Smith, was inspired to write after reading an article…
deep freeze
Tonight is dverse Open Link Night. Today’s offerings are what’s most on my mind today — keeping the fire going. It’s been chilly all day and the fire is on the third try. Today’s offerings are four lanturnes, described as a five-line verse shaped like a Japanese lantern with a syllabic pattern of one, two,…
Not that God
image link The Word of the Day Challenge is hymn. Fandango’s One Word Challenge is contrast. Every Sunday, it was the same routine. Same old sermons, same old songs. Until that one Sunday, when our pastor was gone and we had a substitute. The substitute was a young woman who had spiked blue hair, a…
writing community
image link Fandango’s One Word Challenge is trail. Word of the Day Challenge is camaradarie. These two words immediately made me think of the writing community here at Word Press that is such a joyous and supportive community. I love you! OK enough of the mushy. Here’s another form that ends up being in a…
FPQ #3 — on morality
image link Fandango gives us another provocative question. “Is morality objective or is it subjective? If you believe it’s objective, what is its source. If you believe it’s subjective, how do you know whose concept of morality is correct? From the crystal ball (google), one definition of morality is “principles concerning the distinction between right…
Now you see me….
gif link Fandango’s One Word Challenge today (oops yesterday) is leave and the Word Challenge of the day is dismal. I should have just skipped the challenges, but it’s done now. I decided to do something short and sweet, well not that sweet as leave and dismal are kind of like the day outside was,…
