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Poetry Challenge
The challenge for April 5 was to write about a landmark, famous or otherwise. I've chosen to write about local landmarks in a slightly colloquial framework.
EASY ENOUGH
It's easy to find,
turn left at the water tower,
right at the old armory,
sixteen miles out you'll see
a house with a slate roof,
says in the slate, 1847,
just .3 miles from there's
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Poetry Challenge
Today I chose the prompt for April 8 - to write a poem about either a specific routine or routines in general. So I am giving you a glimpse into the life of a music teacher who teaches private music lessons supplemented with three mornings a week music for preschoolers. Feel free to be either amazed or bored. This one lacks the grace of being in ( Read more... ) -
Poetry Challenge
I got word last night that a family member (distant cousin by marriage) died. I grew up with her mother and aunt. In three weeks time then, these sisters I grew up with have faced tragedy, joy, more tragedy. One sister's husband died after the hospital gave him someone else' insulin drip. Nine days ago the other sister's daughter gave birth to ( Read more... ) -
Poetry Challenge
I didn't get one written yesterday, well not a catchup poem anyway, so this morning I've done two.
April 3, write a poem with the title "The Problem With _______."
The Problem With Religion
I am surrounded
by good religious folk;
Baptists, Penticostals,
Mormans, SDA,
Assembly of God,
Church of Christ,
of God,
of God of Prophecy.
Sit in a resturuant
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Yep, Still Alive
I know, I pop in, post that I'm alive, then promptly drop back off the globe.
This month I'm doing a poem a day challenge that I found complements of Writers Digest. Granted, I am way behind in my emails so happened to read about it with the month half over. I've considered going back and picking up the earlier prompts and doing the poems (late) ( Read more... ) -
LIfe's Nuts!
I keep thinking I will get back to regular postings. Thinking is about as far as I get though. Here's a quick update.
Ever since I went on a plastering/painting binge, I've had severe pain in my right arm, some kind of frozen shoulder thing going on. It's made it difficult to spend time on the computer. Since October I've been seeing a holistic ( Read more... ) -
Momma will recover, this time.
It was the ringing phone that awakened me this morning at 5:50. I didn't quite make it to the house phone in time and then my cell phone rang. Seemingly, sometime during the night Momma got out of her bed and went for a walk. L (her caregiver) found her face down in a ditch about a 1/4 mile from the house. She was cold and unresponsive. L ( Read more... ) -
I didn't really fall off the face of the earth.
Where have I been? Even I can't answer that one very clearly. It seems that the last few months have passed in something of a fog. There has been the usual teaching, momma care, gearing up for Sugar's special day, some physical stuff, not much writing... The list could go on but there doesn't seem to be much point to continuing. All in all, it ( Read more... ) -
Word of the Day
slam
verb
1) to shut with force and noise
2) to dash, strike, knock, thrust, throw, slap down, etc., with violent and noisy impact
3) Informal. to criticize harshly; attack verbally
noun
1) a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact
2) the noise so made
3) Informal. a harsh criticism; verbal attack
Slam Poetry
Informal. a competitive, usually ( Read more... ) -
Word of the Day
koan - koh-ahn
noun
1) A puzzling, often paradoxical statement or story, used in Zen Buddhism as an aid to meditation and a means of gaining spiritual awakening.
2) A nonsensical or paradoxical question to a student for which an answer is demanded, the stress of meditation on the question often being illuminating.
[Japanese koan : ko, public + an ( Read more... )