image link The Word of the Day Challenge is gratitude. Passage from Robert Heinlein’s book, Stranger in a Strange Land, on the topic of gratitude: “Sit back down—and for God’s sake quit trying to be as nasty as I am; you don’t have my years of practice. Now let me get something straight: you are…
Category: poetry
Madness Ignited
image link Fandango’s FOWC today is madness and Word of the Day Challenge is ignite. This gloomy weather is getting to me. Today’s offering is both disturbing and frightening. WARNING: It may be triggering and is not suitable for children. Don’t say you weren’t warned! a finger traces an imaginary line down a path…
Village Pastoral — revision 2 of 1
image link Village Pastoral * Here is the latest revision, using enjambment: * Each morn, sun’s rise, she passes a dog, long dead, bloated, rotting roadside; its sick stench, maggot’s perfume, cause ripe wretching and swoon. She prays for rain to wash it all away. * Town’s well; wives talk, pails rise, smiles fall,…
Mirrorball
gif link The Word of the Day Challenge is resolutions. Fandango’s FOWC is enigma. The offering today are two nonets, one a reverse (the first one is the reverse), but each uses both prompts for today. I also tried to make them complement each other. Orb Focus Of varied Resolutions Generates versions Enigma of what’s…
dverse poet’s pub — The Librarian
image link Merril is the hostess of the first dverse poet’s pub of 2019. Her prompt today: So, today, I want you to consider time and space and what if? What if you–or someone else—or some THING else–took that less or more-traveled path? Would it make a difference? Will it make a difference? Look backward,…
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…
Alphabet haiku challenge — z
Abigail Gronway’s Alphabet Haiku challenge is using the letter “z”. Challenging, to say the least! Zaftig zinnias, Zimbabwean zygomorphs, zealous zig-zaggers. image link
Tao-Talk 