I’m pleased to announce that my poem Nuts has been published online in YourDailyPoem.com.
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My poem “Bald Mountains Have Hope” will be online at YourDailyPoem.com, Saturday 12/14/19
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My poem “Bald Mountains Have Hope” will be the Poem of the Day showing on Your Daily Poem – Home Saturday, December 14, 2019. My thanks and appreciation to Ms. Jayne Jaudon Ferrer, Editor, for her acceptance of this piece. … Continue reading
The Puddling Rain (in tribute to Leonid Afremov’s painting Friends Under the Rain)*
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Two women, one umbrella, and a puddling rain make for the perfect poetic pose…
Life is Unrelated: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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The Best of It: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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Whether you live on a fringe, the edge, or right smack dab in the middle of it, we make the best of it. Don’t we?
Third Poem Accepted
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While I am awaiting notification of the publication of my second accepted poem, I’ve received notification that a third poem has been accepted
Florida Snow. In My Backyard.
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Not all winter snows slow down the world, some are attached to branches and linger longer… Randy Mazie
There’s a New Restaurant Replacing the Old Diner: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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Last week we wrote about responding to change with music. This week change comes in the manner of menus and new restaurants…
Fear
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Fear faces us every day whether we acknowledge it or deny it.
Sewing the Stars in the Night: An Ovillejo for The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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I Once Loved A Northern Mockingbird: dVerse ~ Poets Pub
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Life sings to us. We don’t always hear it. Sometimes when we do, it’s too short, fleeting. We want it back. Love is the same way…
A Bird on the Wire: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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Loneliness is a dark thing, closeted away, along with other skeletons….
She, Being Like the Night: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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FRI-Toons: Friday Fictioneers’ Cartoons
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You’ve read cartoons. Well, now it’s time for Friday Fictioneers’ FRI-toons….
A Fitting Perspective: Friday Fictioneers
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The Skirt at the Bridge: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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Sin Creek: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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The Purity of Sea: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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This man set sail, as many a man has, to purge an inner demon, an acquired curse, maybe an original sin, and finds salvation at sea…
Hangin’ Out on Pleasant Street: Cee’s Which Way Challenge 2015 #1
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Hangin’ out on Pleasant Street, not sure which way to go, but, oh my, what a beautiful view…
Yellow: The Daily Post Photo Challenge
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In the Scheme of Things: The Sunday Whirl
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Global Warming Sonnet: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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This week another sonnet, although this one’s seriously done, to put inside your bonnet to protect you from the sun. Each week The Sunday Whirl invites writers to write a poem or short prose using some or all of the … Continue reading
The New Moonlit Beach: Five Sentence Fiction
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It’s not always good to mess with magic. Luminous illusions have a way of eluding us in the dark of night…
Restoration: the Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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The Sunday Whirl invites writers to write a poem or short prose using some or all of the “wordle’s” 12 words. This week it is:
In Morning Over Tea
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Tarzan’s Old Travel Memories: Limerick-Off Monday
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The Lie: The Sunday Whirl “Wordle”
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What corporate lies we must believe when thirst for oil makes us achieve…
Resist Much, Obey Little: Five Sentence Fiction
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Lillie McFerrin posts a “Five Sentence Fiction” prompt. This week it is:BLADES “Resist much, obey little.” ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass Like, oh wow, one minute you’re talking about roller skating and the next minute, like, I’m seeing blades … Continue reading
Transanimalism: Friday Freeformeers
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Look it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s superman! No, it’s all three – It’s a birplaman! Friday Fictioneers – Rochelle Wisoff-Fields posts a pic to write a 100 word story about. This week it’s: humor My dear friend … Continue reading
Scattered Hope: The Sunday Whirl “Wordle” on Monday
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There were graven images, idols and statues, monoliths and icons, and now drones…
The Bush
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Down to the Grave: The Sunday Whirl “Wordle”
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A little Chinese-styled poetic ditty, for your wonton soup or the inside of that fortune cookie
Ex Friends: Five Sentence Fiction
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Sometimes a friend is not really a friend – or is a friend to the end… Mu-wa-ha-ha-ha
Out on a Limb: Friday Afflictioneers
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Who could love a gnarly tree? If you did – would it be called treeson? Would you go out on a limb for a gnarly tree? Important questions to ponder. We think we have some answers…
To the Only Flame that Matters: Five Sentence Fiction
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Phlower Power II
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Continuing on with a phew more phlower power photos…
Phlower Phantasy: To Janet from “This, that and the other thing”
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Janet posts her photography on her website “This, that and the other” and has prompted me to post a few of my own favorites.
Sometimes Sonnets Alight at Night
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Haiku’s will thread their way like ivy spreading o’er the day… but sometimes sonnets will alight at night.
We Go Cruisin’: Day Five — My Heart’s With Thee, Haiti
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We Go Cruisin’: Day Four — Paradise Found
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Gnarled Tree
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We age like gnarled trees: A haiku Thanks to Janet at This That and the Other Thing and Tea With a Pirate for inspiration. … Continue reading
Invictus by William Ernest Henley
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My mother likes to say that all good things come in three’s. I’ve posted Rudyard Kipling’s If and Max Ehrmann’s Desiderata – and I think William Ernest Henley’s Invictus is a great third piece in this collection. By the way… … Continue reading
Desiderata by Max Ehrmann
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Many people know the prose poem entitled Desiderata – which means “desired things” in Latin. But if you don’t, please take a moment to read it through.
The DUBSTEP Goat
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Enigma: The Sunday Whirl
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Global Warming
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Come Play in my Garden
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The Sands of Time Slip Away: Picture It and Write
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Picture It and Write from ermiliablog@wordpress Write a paragraph of fiction or a poem to accompany the image. The picture prompt for this week is below: … Continue reading
To Day
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Stained Glass Winter: Friday Fictioneers
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Friday Fictioneers – Rochelle Wisoff-Fields posts a pic to write a 100 word story about.