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Minstrel
NaPoWriMo: Day 4 Dawn comes softly to lean at my window. I bask in light of her truth. Lyrics of old song whisper at my ear, tickling memories from long ago. Smile curves lips as words slip with ease into … Continue reading
About This Imperfect Poet
NaPoWriMo 2019 – Day 10 About This Imperfect Poet Each day, reach to write a poem find a home deep in forest of letters and words. Propel my way through this process until I can feel the poem is finished. … Continue reading
April PAD Challenge: Day 16
For Sunday’s Whirligig: Wordle #107 http://sundayswhirligig.blogspot.com/ insane, products, setting, try, devices, similar, considering, mad, nameless, make, waking, call For The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #295 https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ nail, stone, scrape, breeze, barrier, trunk, turn, reach, listen, taste, follow, sigh For Poets United: … Continue reading
Posted in April PAD Challenge: Day 16
Tagged hero, poet, Poetry Pantry, Poets United, resurrection, struggle, Sundays Whirligig, The Sunday Whirl, wordles
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Mythopoesis 29 – A Ribbon of Words
For NaPoWriMo Day 29 A Ribbon of Words Earlier, I said that words are a ribbon that may become a skein of poetry. Have you ever seen someone pick up the end of a thread of yarn and begin to … Continue reading
Posted in Mythopoesis 29 - A Ribbon of Words
Tagged conscious awareness, different perspective, magician, myth-making, mythopoesis, NaPoWriMo, poet, skein, words, yarn
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About That Call
About That Call Poet sits staring at blank page. Nothing. Knows now, there is no end to the words. Lifts head toward ceiling, then drops it again. Words are shrouded in thick mist of mystery. There, but somehow hidden or … Continue reading
Posted in About That Call
Tagged bear cub, conversation, hermit, poet, prophet, resistance, The Call, too busy, writing process
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Poet-Hawk II
For 1sojournal NaPoWriMo Poetry Prompt #23: Day 23 http://1sojournal.wordpress.com/ hawks, similar, own, undivided, example, color chosen, focus, season, difficult human, missive, Poet-Hawk II Hawks, whether soaring, on the hunt, or perched sentinel on a tree branch, are perfect examples of … Continue reading
Posted in Poet-Hawk II
Tagged 1sojournal, hawk, kinship, NaPoWriMo, piercing stare, poem a day, poet, poetry prompts, while waiting
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Poet-Hawk
For 1sojournal NaPoWriMo Poetry Prompt #22: Day 22 http://1sojournal.wordpress.com/ hawks, similar, own, undivided, example, color chosen, focus, season, difficult human, missive, Poet-Hawk Hawks, whether soaring, on the hunt, or perched sentinel on a tree branch, are perfect example of undivided … Continue reading
Posted in Hawk-Poet
Tagged 1sojournal, hawk, human, NaPoWriMo, poem a day, poet, poetry prompts, similar, wordle
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From Prophet To Poet and Back Again
For We Write Poems Poetry Prompt #197: Prophet +1 http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/ From Prophet To Poet and Back Again http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtwUyDPXROQ&feature=related Fire burns within, the prophet becomes smoke rising from glowing embers choking on desire to speak. Meek originally meant a strong man, … Continue reading
Word Thread
PAD Challenge #19 for Poetic Asides For today’s prompt, write a poem with a hole in it. Word Thread Mother used to mend socks. Weave new thread back and forth across hole in worn through fabric. Wish it were … Continue reading
Posted in Word Thread
Tagged mending socks, PAD Challenge, Penelope, poem with hole, poet, Poetic Asides, Poetry prompt, tapestry, thread of words
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Soul's Music 