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Hemispheres
today’s prompt was to write a poem of temperature I chose to think of winter. hemispheres does the sun feel earth’s cold shoulder as she turns away to face another, distant chill and const… more →
Briarcat's Thicket
hemispheres
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barbara_y wrote 2 weeks ago: today’s prompt was to write a poem of temperature I chose to think of winter. hemispheres does … more →
Nov16__Monday
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barbara_y wrote 3 weeks ago: Between breaths, literally, a brilliant blue Autumn sky turned into winter. Suddenly the trees look … more →
Nov13__Friday, Mantid days
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barbara_y wrote 3 weeks ago: these last few have been mantid days and everywhere it seems, are tiny pale and tender green insect … more →
hawk (saw)
barbara_y wrote 4 weeks ago: just sitting down to check facebook I heard a hawk outside and was distracted into thoughts of house … more →
Nov9__Monday
barbara_y wrote 1 month ago: Beginning with today, and for the rest of the month, I think I’m going to do the PAD challenge … more →
three scarecrows on the dock
barbara_y wrote 1 month ago: November 1 PAD Nov challenge For today’s prompt, I want you to write a poem in which you (or somethi … more →
The Problem With Dreams| PAD prompt 3 addendum
barbara_y wrote 7 months ago: The Problem With Dreams I woke, dazed as Dorothy. to the same dim room I saw this morning, dull flow … more →
Farewell the Magic| PAD prompt 30
barbara_y wrote 7 months ago: Farewell the Magic The tale is done. Applause. The players bow farewell. Do you grieve that magic di … more →
Never.....|PAD prompt 29
barbara_y wrote 7 months ago: NEVER, EVER You can get your words to live by From the anchor on the news. You can learn a funny sto … more →
Sestina| PAD prompt 29
barbara_y wrote 7 months ago: The Nymph Refrains I am not bright. Not bright enough for you, Lucifer. The sun will not stop in th … more →
cold orange crush __revision
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barbara_y wrote 7 months ago: Cold Orange Crush This about longing: It would have been July. In July, the heat’s a new t … more →
Poetry gets a makeover from LULU
janflora wrote 7 months ago: Poetry Month is almost over and I have been writing away, trying to catch up on the Poem-A-Day chall … more →
Deep Longing
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Sarah Joyce Bryant wrote 7 months ago: I spent years distracting myself from this need to extract the stories I live, plant them firmly on … more →
Longing| PAD Challenge 27
barbara_y wrote 7 months ago: Cold Orange Crush This about longing: July. In July, the heat’s still a new thing, Intense and … more →
Miscommunication Poem #2: god is a disco ball
barbara_y wrote 7 months ago: I am fond of metaphor. I don’t do well at bald description and fact and abstraction. (It is a … more →
Mis-Communication| Prompt 26
barbara_y wrote 7 months ago: Foul Pythonic Spammer Wrapping my words in trash and sending them back warped. Stuff it. I do not wa … more →
Event|PAD prompt 25
barbara_y wrote 7 months ago: Today–The Country Music Marathon (and 1/2 Marathon)–Today thirty thousand plus. about a … more →
Theme of Travel| PAD challenge 24
barbara_y wrote 7 months ago: For today’s prompt, I want you to write a travel-related poem. It can be human travel, the mig … more →
