"I know there are horrible, awful, tragic things going on in the world." ~ Merril "won’t you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life?” ~ Lucille Clifton.
Aren't seahorses graceful and lovely? They sure are, but they’re facing risk of extinction-- a sad reality. This little seahorse captured my fancy, so I wrote this poem for the prompt. Hope you enjoy it.
Is Heaven a place, or an illusion? Up there? Or a mere figments of imagination? Fr. Sotti, the underdog in a few of my pieces, believes in heaven. What do you think?
The town school I went to was near the sea, and our spelling bees usually took place outdoors to accommodate a worthy audience. What was your experience like?
A response to What Do You See Prompt with Sadje of @sadje19 on Twitter.
Secrets of happy empty nesters. What are your thoughts? Please let me know.
Here's the reply I made to a serious question at the start of the pandemic. Today, I was intrigued as my reply is the same.
Trying my hand at a new poetry form for my fave pub, dVerse. The form's called a Constanza created in 2007 by Connie Marcum Wong. I hope you enjoy it.
Concrete Poetry: Hope you enjoy what I have for you today.
Thanks so much for these fantastic prompts. And thanks so much to everyone who's been reading. Thanks for the encouragement, you guys are the best! I'm not sure I got this Homeric simile to work, but this is the best I can do. xoxo
"A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together." ~ George McWhirter Happy Writing. Happy Reading.
I present you with a rondeau on this 22nd day of April. I'm pretty new to this form, so was practicing it the other day, and when I read the prompt required repetition I thought of my rondeau. *wink* Hope you enjoy it.