image by: mk vecchitto I wander halls with many doors Of varied woods and endless cores The choice I make will not be forced On cosmic course. On cosmic course I skip through one of oak that shines Am in a place of flowered vines Each bloom displays precise guidelines There will be fines! There…
Category: OctPoWriMo
OctPoWriMo2019 Day 4 — Hourglass
procrastination drains me, fills death’s half life’s grains falling inertia’s quicksand pools grows deeper shadows sink drowned regrets pile empty husks I stand on, animate corpse When I saw the prompt, this song by Radiohead, called, “Fitter Happier” came to mind. Morgan Dragonwillow is the host of OctPoWriMo. Morgan says: Have you ever felt like…
OctPoWriMo2019 Day 3 and dVerse OLN — Persnickety Pear (language warning)
Chromosomal fate Blood-soaked baggage Temperamental bitch Like a bad penny Keeps turning up Force fed hormones Great clots of backlash But she was there When I needed her. And again. Then she stabbed me In the back. I had to cut her loose. Sleep well, old girl. Grace is today’s host of dVerse‘s Open Link…
Poetry Day 31 — One
Today’s prompt, the final one for OctWriPoMo2018, is Endless. The form I chose is cinquain. It’s been very satisfying writing a poem a day for this challenge. The picture with today’s poem is one I drew based upon a dream I had not long ago. One Endless life death cycle arising, setting sun, joy and…
Poetry Day 30 –it’s time to dance!
gif link Today’s writing prompt for OctWriPo is: “It’s time to celebrate a job well done, a love won, the turning of the sun. Write about that exuberant feeling you get whenever you are happy, that feeling that makes you feel like dancing whether it’s on the earth or the moon!” The suggested form today…
Poetry Day 29 — Dao & The 10,000 Things
image link Today’s prompt is, “By the Number”. I like numbers and after working in the accounting field for awhile learned that they do speak their own language. I thought about trying to do something on my lucky number 17 or something about hexagrams from the I Ching, but the number most important to me…
Poetry Day 28 — Splitting Herrs
image link Today’s prompt is “Split in Two”, with… a dilemma. A split path. A difficult choice. Maybe even a chasm or schism… the notion of ‘splitting hairs’… The suggested form is the “Anglo-Saxon Riddle”. In a way today’s offering covers those bases but not exactly. It is indeed *about* an Anglo-Saxon riddle and it…
Tao Talk 