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,…
Category: poetry
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…
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 4 — Opossum Acrostic
image link Oft-unfairly-maligned Parental Omnivorous Shakespearian Snake-tailed Unguental Meanderer Please click on the image link to read the story of the ‘possum family rescue — includes video!
A day at the beach
image link A Diamante is a seven-lined contrast poem set up in a diamond shape. Body warm, supple undulating, scintillating, welcoming strong, wet, cold, swimming struggling, drowning, disappearing lifeless, rigid Corpse Word of the Day Challenge — scintillating
Tao-Talk 