Orchidaceae — Chloraea disoides Lindl Fandango’s FOWC is lethargic, the Word of the Day Challenge is envision, and Paula’s 3 Things Challenge words are: cousin, folder, iguana As lethargic as Daria was feeling this morning, she did not envision having a very fun time at botanical gardens with her cousin today. Romo, a photographer, had…
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dVerse — Haibun Monday — 2/4/19
Kim is the host of this week’s Haibun Monday at the dVerse poet’s pub. Kim says: For this week’s Haibun Monday, write about solitude: it could be meditative solitude, solitude in nature, or just plain old sitting alone in your room solitude. That’s up to you. But you should write no more than three tight…
MLMM Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille — HAWK
This week’s Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie’s Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille has the inspirational prompt of hawk. i Perched, her red tail wags, head swiveling to decide which snow drift to glide. ii Brown wings glide over white drifts; talons clutch the hare; sub-zero dinner. iii Winter hawk calls in the morning; there will be grief in snowy…
d’Verse Quadrille to Winter’s Pheasant
Mish is the host of tonight’s d’Verse and gives the following prompt for tonight’s quadrille: So I give you the word “steep” to infuse into your poem of 44 words. Steep drifts shelter the pheasant outside my window. He stares in at the greenery and wonders at the mirage of summer. * I…
d’Verse — Shed Diamante
image link lillian is the hostess at d’Verse this evening, where she says: The prompt for today: write a poem (any form; rhyming or not) that includes the word “shed” or a form of the word. The offering today is in the form of a diamante. Shed rid, cast-off sloughing, extricating, losing remove,…
Sunday morning haiku
image link Getting ready to build the morning fire, I stood up from the wood burner and looked outside. I saw a brown lump out by one of the fenceposts that isn’t usually there. When you spend a lot of time staring at a particular place, you immediately notice if something is different. I walked…
Beads and how the world turns
image link The Word of the Day Challenge is traditions. Fandango’s FOWC is revenge. Today’s offering is in the form of a villanelle. As an introduction, I wanted to talk about how I was inspired to write this. On Saturday, I went to Hobby Lobby to take an art print that my older son got…
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