Thank you to Margaret from Reflections on the Teche for offering “this photo wants to be a poem” challenge. I love short poems. They encapsulate a single thought so completely. They don’t need to have a deep message, although they could have one. Just a moment to acknowledge an idea, to nod in affirmation and…

“Whatever happens, stay alive. Don’t die before you’re dead. Don’t lose yourself, don’t lose hope, don’t loose direction. Stay alive, with yourself, with every cell of your body, with every fiber of your skin. Stay alive, learn, study, think, read, build, invent, create, speak, write, dream, design. Stay alive, stay alive inside you, stay alive…

Thank you to Alan Wright for introducing me to this special day through Poetry Friday. I have been busy for the last six months with construction, adding a longed for library and garage onto our house. I am amazed at how many of my considerations are focused on light. For me, light is essential. I…

This Spanish style poem is six lines long, and consists of the the following syllables per line. 3/5/3/3/7/5. I’ve been seeing a lot of shadorma poems among the poetry blogs I’ve been visiting lately. I think because it is a short form poem, and easy to write as a response to a prompt. I wanted…

From https://reflectionsontheteche.com/ we’ve been offered a photo challenge. I decided to look up short poems to accept this challenge. I found the gagyohka form, which is Japanese literally meaning “5 short line poem”. Each line holds one phrase, with no extended or complex lines. Fairies peek from behind doors watching the world forget magic still…

I started this blog to coincide with National Poetry Month and all the activities surrounding it. But I think I will try to keep it going, not every day but every week at least. It’s a nice way to keep a journal of what I’m thinking about, without all the difficulty of keeping a journal.…

Run on over to April’s site to see the end of the progressive poem. It is marvelous. April Halprin Wayland at Teaching Authors Yesterday’s writing prompt was about endings or beginnings. As we end our fabulous writing every day in April, or begin our new writing projects (that we hope to continue) we are at a…

Today’s prompt is color. And as an artist, I could write about this in a hundred different ways. But my mind couldn’t settle on anything. So I let the muse play without regard to what would happen. I started thinking about the color of eyes and the words that came out were the ones that…

What a fun little way to write a poem. But it can be effective. Use a list, a recipe, a postcard, writing on a whiteboard, a phone message, etc. as a format for writing your poem. Postcard from the Edge Dear partisan,I took the road less traveled by,but it is getting pretty crowded lately.You might…