Two Kinds Of People by Ella Wheeler Wilcox(1850–1919) There are two kinds of people on earth today,Two kinds of people no more I say.Not the good or the bad, for…
Written for Colleen: https://tankatuesday.com/2024/04/30/24-seasons-syllabic-poetry-challenge-no-32-4-30-24-part-ii-grain-rain-april-19-may-4-koku-%e7%a9%80%e9%9b%a8 Colleen says: Your writing invitation is to experiment with the renga form.Here’s how to write renga: Renga or Renku features alternating stanzas, usually of 5-7-5 and…
Friends, I wanted to recite this one into my phone but found something better.Please enjoy. https://youtu.be/kWDCCf1CYXI?si=sJVVy5t_HK59kvPM&t=268 Starts at 4:28 YouTube: https://youtu.be/kWDCCf1CYXI?si=sJVVy5t_HK59kvPM&t=268 Image by Melanie from Pixabay, Retouched on Canva Thanks for being here.…
How many sunsets, how many sunrises are in the span of 33 years? And how do you measure it?
Food's sacred. Growing up, we never went without, never mocked or wasted it. Today, It breaks my heart to see how food's wasted when families are going hungry on the planet. How did this happen? Is food not comforting?
In moments of great anxiety and enfeebling grief, conjure up that special place that brings you joy. Soar, then watch the enfeebling emotions flutter, drift off, and shift into nothing. Find joy.
Have you ever found a message in a bottle? How did it make you feel? Have you ever written one? I participated in a writing exercise and wrote a message. Today, I celebrate you and wish to send you that short message. It goes with all my heart. And as always, I wish you miracles.
Written for Val at A Different Perspective: https://murisopsis.wordpress.com/2024/03/29/looking-at-poems-around-the-world https://murisopsis.wordpress.com/author/murisopsis/ For Day 30. Philippines: Tanaga – A Filipino form, composed of 4 lines with 7 syllables per line and writtenas a…
Day Thirty on APRIL 30, 2024 All good things, even Na/GloPoWriMo, must come to an end. But we’ll be back again next year(and also tomorrow, with our final featured participant!) Today’s…
Day Twenty-Nine on APRIL 29, 2024 Happy twenty-ninth day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, everyone. We have two featured participants today: Frank Bekker, who brings us a sweetsijo about a cat, and Brittany Mishra, whose poem…
Day Twenty-Eight on APRIL 28, 2024 We’re in the home stretch now, with just three days left to go in this year’s Na/GloPoWriMo! Today’s featured participant is MellowYellow, which brings us a…
Day Twenty-Seven on APRIL 27, 2024 A very happy twenty-seventh day of Na/GloPoWriMo to you all. Today, our featured daily participant is Peregrine Buffington, where you’ll not only find a lot of…