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,…
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.
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…
My Life, According to Bruce Springsteen
image link Choose an artist. Using only the titles of songs from only that artist, answer these questions in a blog entitled, My Life, According to…(insert artist’s name): Your Artist: Bruce Springsteen Are you male or female: She’s The One Describe yourself: Tougher than the Rest How do you feel about yourself: I Wish I…
Day 7 –Go To Hell
Dear Every Member of The System Who Didn’t Believe a Victim and/or Failed to Hold Accountable a Perpetration of Sexual Assault Upon Another: Person/System Who Didn’t Believe A Victim Failed to Hold Accountable a Perpetration. * Your reasons are Legion. One extreme to another Rationalized or justified Callous disregard for * —->A HUMAN BEING<—- *…
Day 6 — Look Up
image link The form is a rondeau. A Rondeau is a French form, 15 lines long, consisting of three stanzas: a quintet, a quatrain, and a sestet with a rhyme scheme as follows: aabba aabR aabbaR. Lines 9 and 15 are short – a refrain (R) consisting of a phrase taken from line one. The…
Day 5 — Denied
This is a free write, where I closed my eyes and started typing as the lines presented themselves. I didn’t have anything in particular in mind I was being deprived of so it’s generic; at the same time the object of denial is important enough to elicit the stream: Force field goes up in the…
Tao-Talk 