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This week I decided to double my random poetry process. I went to a favorite inspiration post: “141 Ways to Play, Process, Stretch, Express, Disrupt Words and Form” and chose #23-31, without previewing them. Each day I attempted the linked prompts (below) and then also included the Inktober word of the day. 23 October, Saturday […]
16 October, Saturday Jesus napped in the windstorm No compass needed for his route to invite friends’ faith to transform. 17 October, Sunday I love when languages collide and I hear cognates in Hindi, Spanish, and Arabic– kashyu, teléfono and limun 18 October, Monday Fickle moon, what shape will you take today? 19 October, Tuesday […]
I’m writing a small poem each day using a word from the Inktober prompts (a word, I’m finding, that is great for sketching but doesn’t always inspire poetry). However, I was inspired last week by this Poetry Friday community. Thank you, Heidi (Saturday), Karen (Tuesday), and Alan (Wednesday)! And thanks to the inspiration of Birdtober […]
Happy Poetry Friday today! Thank you, Irene, at Live Your Poem for hosting today. Here is her post with an Ode to Autumn by Neruda and “Autumn Puzzle” by Irene, as well as an opportunity in 2022. I hope to become an official wild and precious writer. It’s a busy week here, so I have […]
Maybe someday I will try inking all the prompts for Inktober, but for now I am going to follow Jone Rush McCulloch’s lead and write a small poem each day in October. My new lens is like a clear crystal burning in the light of sunshine What new suit will you wear when all your […]
Oh, my goodness. Is there any goodness? With the killing and dying in Israel and Gaza, the House of Representatives in disarray, mass shootings daily and now this horrific one in Maine, and an election-denying radical as the new Speaker of the House. On the other hand, there was a bit of goodness for today–I […]
Today is Poetry Friday and the dancing, nurturing, running Bridget Magee, at Wee Words for Wee Ones, is hosting. (She has a birthday gift for us too.) Today is also the National Day on Writing, and Day 20 on my Inktober writing small poems in October. Today’s word is frost. October 20 – frost #WhyIWrite […]