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The Dragon Speaks
NaPoWriMo 2020 Day 9 Szzooo Little One, it iz your birthday. I like thizz yearly czzelebrashun of your paszage through time. We dragonz live far too long to do zuch a thing. And people bring you preszentss. Szometimez thingz … Continue reading
Posted in The Dragon Speaks
Tagged birthday, celebration, creation, Heth, imagination, presents, time
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At The Gate
Day 2: NaPoWriMo 2020 At The Gate So here I am at the gate to my own imagination. At least, it’s not closed, or locked tight against further passage. Funny, how I thought it could or would be. Need to … Continue reading
13 Ways I See My Dragon
For Poets United: Mid-Week Motif – finding the extraordinary in the ordinary http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/ 13 Ways I See My Dragon Call her Heth, short for Marananthaheth which, in her language, means nurturer. She tells me that all Dragon names end in … Continue reading
Posted in 13 Ways I See My Dragon
Tagged dragon, extraordinary, galaxies, imagination, Little One, Mid-Week Motif, old woman, ordinary, Poets United
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A Hug
For Creativity Challenge Day 14: Hug http://1sojournal.wordpress.com For Poets United: Poetry Pantry #331 http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/ A Hug Who am I to tell anyone to give a hug to the world, even though it is sorely in need of such a thing. … Continue reading
Posted in A Hug
Tagged creativity challenge, dreamer, globe, hugging the world, imagination, lullaby, nurture, old woman, Poetry Pantry, Poets United, sunlight
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An Image
For Creativity Challenge Day 13, Imagination http://1sojournal.wordpress.com An Image Close my eyes, watch as they gather, one by one, in pre-dawn mist and haze. On shoreline and mountain meadows, slowly breathing in scent of fresh soil, the sea, tall grasses, … Continue reading
Posted in An Image
Tagged clasped hands, creativity challenge, giving thanks, imagination, one by one, rising sun, singing
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In Conclusion
For 1sojournal NaPoWriMo Poetry Prompt #30: Day 30 http://1sojournal.wordpress.com/ tiger, pain, healthy, drifted, tomes, drug, cheated, baths, voracious, space, seek, boulder, skin, breeze, scent, swaying, mesmerized, admiration, habitat, grace, epitome, haunches, bidding, stunned, sent, secret In Conclusion Now single older … Continue reading
Posted in In Conclusion
Tagged 1sojournal, creativity, Final Day, gratitude, imagination, NaPoWriMo, poem a day, Poetry prompt, self-portrait
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Cloaked Reality
For The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #138 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ prison, cloak, become, lens, goods, cash, pursuit, skirt, cruel, wild, Venus, beloved For Poets United: Poetry Pantry #179 Cloaked Reality She escapes cruel prison of everyday existence through magical lens of imagination. Becoming whatever … Continue reading
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Tagged cloaked reality, fantasy, imagination, poetry prompts, Poets United, reality, The Poetry Pantry, The Sunday Whirl, wordle
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Set Adrift
For November PAD Challenge: Image #26 http://1sojournal.wordpress.com/ Dancing through the spheres, a ballet with constellations. When we set our imagination adrift, cut it loose from all rules that restrict and bind us, we can fly. Elizabeth Crawford 11/26/12
Posted in Set Adrift
Tagged fly, imagination, November PAD Challenge, poem a day, set adrift, visual prompts
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“Better The Bogeyman You Know…”
The word swampland is borrowed from a man I have never met, but certainly would love to sit down to coffee and a long chat with (even though I don’t drink coffee, I would if that were the only ticket). … Continue reading
Posted in "Better The Bogeyman You Know..."
Tagged alone, bogeyman, fear, imagination, inner landscape, inspiration, lost, poem, retired eagle, swampland, trapped
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