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Me?
Me? Have been missing in action, losing time, perhaps potential, maybe even future victory. Evidence may be found in bare white pages, lacking all words rolling off tongue, pen, or keyboard. Guess I decided to become another entity, fill my … Continue reading
A Tribute
A Tribute Sometimes get lost in the words. Can waste hours meandering through meanings. Smell the green of anticipation or feel the hardened crust of an idea gone stale from lack of simply breathing. Stepping stones creating an ever-curving path … Continue reading
Stray Thought 2
No. To even consider sainthood as a path would eliminate the possibility. Elizabeth Crawford 11/2/2017 Posted to Micropoetry Month: 2017 https://thotpurge.wordpress.com/2017/11/02/micropoetry-month-nov-2017-2/ Save Save Save
Posted in Stray Thought 2
Tagged eliminate, Micropoetry, month of November, path, Poetry, possibility, writing
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The Bull Dancer
For Creativity Challenge: Day 3 word is Acceptance http://1sojournal.wordpress.com The Bull Dancer Sit crossed-legged to morning, unraveling words like Ariadne’s thread, following them through labyrinth seeking jewel like poem, hidden treasure I know must be somewhere near center. Instead, find … Continue reading
Posted in The Bull Dancer
Tagged 1sojournal, acceptance, attack, creativity challenge, making beauty, Minotaur, pen and paper, Poetry, weapons
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Confession On Paper
Sunday’s Whirligig: Wordle #38 http://sundayswhirligig.blogspot.com/ brown, friends, white, palm, born, burnt, consonants, windows, unmarked, sins, paint, pantry The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #230 https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ fact, fear, sweet, vicious, scheme, flood, lines, lure, crease, stream, spreads, extreme Poets United: Poetry Pantry #283 … Continue reading
Posted in Confession On Paper
Tagged colors, confession, designs, pleasure, Poetry, Poetry Pantry, Poets United, sins, Sunday Whirl, Sundays Whirligig, wordles
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Mythopoesis 28 – The Mentor Speaks
For NaPoWriMo Day 28 The Mentor Speaks Once upon a time, in a time long, long ago, poets were believed to be magicians. Believed to hold and wield a certain power. And on some level, to a certain degree, they … Continue reading
Posted in Mythopoesis 28 - The Mentor Speaks
Tagged creativity, History, lesser god, magician, making myth, mythopoesis, NaPoWriMo, Poetry, poets, power, subsistence, the mentor, words
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Careless Risking
For The Sunday Whirl writing prompt: Wordle #197 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ rescue, patron, day, measure, spread, race, state, host, spend, ticking, cloud, humility Careless Risking Hard not to laugh when others measure in words like heroic or humble. She was patron of neither. … Continue reading
Posted in Carelessly Risking
Tagged carelessly risking, fear and foreboding, hero, humble, measured in words, nightmares, Poetry, rescue, The Sunday Whirl, wordle
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Where I Come From
For Miz Quickly’s Impromptu Poetry Day 30: 30 http://imprompt.wordpress.com/ Where I Come From Why work so hard to be good at something no one else really cares about? Why spend hours, sometimes days and weeks, to tweak ordinary thought into … Continue reading
Only An Attempted Wordle Murder
For The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #70 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ Only An Attempted Wordle Murder Won’t you celebrate with me these words I am tipping, affixing onto this page? What I have shaped from only hinted at, tinted experiences in prelude of childhood. … Continue reading
Midnight Recipe
For The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #61 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ Midnight Recipe Amaretto and orange juice, blended with splash of sour, tempers midnight hour at end of hectic day. Soft click of latch closes out current draft at cracked window, while eliminating all … Continue reading
Posted in Midnight Recipe
Tagged Amaretto Stone Sour, midnight, Poetry, recipe, Sunday Whirl, word puzzle, wordle
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Soul's Music 