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New Definition of “Pro-Life”
Here is my Four Point Plan of Action for the Cold-Hearted, or, a New Definition of “Pro-Life”. I am taking a moment to share another Facebook post with you. It was written by an anonymous fan of One...
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Links for Wrimos
Hi all! I finished NaNoWriMo, as you know, and now I keep thinking NOW WHAT? Here are a few good links I thought my fellow Wrimos would enjoy. Have fun! Seven Habits of Highly Prolific Writers Learn...
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Little Bee Poop
Now that NaNoWriMo is over for 2012, we should keep flexing our brain muscles. I say we ought to try our hand at creating pseudo-nursery-rhymes. I’m working on one now but have hit a brick wall. Anyone...
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Writing Trick
Chinese Zodiac. Yup, that’s my new writing trick. My characters felt like they were lacking in depth. I was having a hard time giving them interesting personalities. After all, there are a handful...
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Writing (With Pen in Hand)
Blind, deaf, I’ve shuffled / through daily routines without / pausing to process / my joys, pains, plans, memories. / I have lost too many days / to silent forgetfulness. / So I write. And hope. //...
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The Trials and Tribulations of Pen and Ink, or, My Failure … in Nine Words
Nib catches parchment. / Splattering ink sprays paper: / puddle, taxi-cut. // ←◊→ Tagged: challenges, haiku, pen and ink, poetry, revision, writing
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Winter Hawk (haibun)
Prowling winter probes for weaknesses. It seeks out the sick and lonely – then shrieks its icy song of death. Winter parts the feathers on the sparrow’s breast and plunges its talons into the warm...
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Smart Aleck (Senryu)
Anticipation: / what gift have the writers sent? / Damn. Are you kidding? // Caravaggio. The Fortune Teller, 1599. Wikipaintings. ◊ Our task for Bastet’s Pixelventures was to illustrate the following...
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Writer (Codex Poems – Pleiades)
Words wrap around my feet / when they should be singing. / Weakly, I wait … and wait: / where have you gone, my Muse? / Wings whirring, she returns / whispering promises / which turn into weapons. //...
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Dear Paul Simon (You Were My First)
On a warm and humid night / the old vinyl scratched and hissed; / and the poet spun his tale, / gave my brain a vicious twist. / You should know this girl of eight / had to mull your ev’ry word. / You...
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Gangly Feet (Haiku – Senryu)
gangly feet / forgotten with the first flight – / tomorrow – further // ◊ having found her wings / how can she stop flying? / such is writing // Written for Carpe Diem Special – “Use that Quote” –...
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Royalty (Haibun)
Why is the low rumble of conversation always so soothing? Within the framework of gentle voices and soft laughter, my muses are happy. They reach inside my pen and coax the words out of hiding. The...
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Breaking Bones / My Bones (Senryu)
breaking bones / to dig into the marrow – / writing poems // ** my bones – / closer to the surface / after cancer // A semi-selfie. ◊ Written for Haiku Horizons: Bones. ◊ First image: Lynd Ward....
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In the Pressed Leaf (Haiga)
Created for Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: Arti-Visual in the pressed leaf summer’s scent – winter writes haiku ◊ ←◊→ Tagged: arti-visual, Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, Edgar Ent, Ent, Fun with PicMonkey.com,...
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Writing Haiku (Haiga)
writing haiku – looking for stars in mud puddles ◊… Thirty Days of Haiga: Stars ◊… Original photo:… ←◊→ Tagged: frustration, haiga, haiku, inspiration, kind muses, nineteen planets, photo...
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No One Told Her! (Rondine)
No one told her the box was cursed! It sat on her desk, unopened – but she claimed to hear a voice wend through her open mind with great thirst! Long into the night they conversed and though the...
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Fantasy (Haibun)
Tonight my over-critical muse is squawking like an old lady straight out of Monty Python: “Oh, there you go, bringing fantasy into it again.” She’s crossing her arms and scowling as she paces the...
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Drove All Night (Prose)
Edsel by Jean L Hays via Friday Fictioneers ◊ Agent Cooper sat cross-legged on top of a picnic table at Famous Freddy’s Fabulous Fries and tried to write a haiku. Tried. A fly kept landing on his...
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This Handwriting (Haiku)
this handwriting dizzily looping – reminds me of snails reminds me of snails on scratchy sidewalks – writing poems writing poems – snails have time to pause to pause among the...
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BJ Shadorma & Beyond – November 15, 2014
J:Here are the rules for a cavatina again, in convenient list form: 1. You pick the number of quatrains (4-line stanzas); end your poem with a couplet (2-line stanza); 2. The couplet expresses strong...
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