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Prompt: Borrowed Words (and a punctuation)9 comments

barbara_y wrote 6 days ago: radar telephone moved backs moon shell pierced trees curled saver neglect precious pulled abiding wi … more →

Tags: Poetry, readwritepoem, WorDs, writing, aging, telephone poles, Women

Sunday Drivers44 comments

barbara_y wrote 1 week ago: This week’s rwp celebrity prompt (from Nick Carbó, who graciously included a coy bit of beefca … more →

Tags: Humor, readwritepoem, landmark, Travel, Driving, nick carbo, Blue Highways

Pomegranate6 comments

barbara_y wrote 3 weeks ago: This is just waaaay longer than I usually write, and if you aren’t into such things, trust me, … more →

Tags: WorDs, Poetry, readwritepoem, Loss, winter, Transformation., Growth, summer, Pomegranate

hemispheres4 comments

barbara_y wrote 3 weeks ago: today’s prompt was to write a poem of temperature I chose to think of winter. hemispheres does … more →

Tags: Poetry, PAD Challenge, poetic asides prompt, winter, Sun, Dreams

makeover_monday#21 comment

barbara_y wrote 4 weeks ago: Compliments of Carolee and Jill, ( and in this case Therese and Donna),  today’s exercise is : … more →

Tags: WorDs, readwritepoem, Transformation., time, Revision, Renewal, Rewriting

plasterform21 comments

barbara_y wrote 1 month ago:   (prompt #101 p-p-p-poetry) to a 13-word list, all in this case beginning with the letter … more →

Tags: WorDs, Poetry, Humor, readwritepoem

Nov17__Tuesday4 comments

barbara_y wrote 1 month ago: Poem prompt explosion or/and implosion Too much a lady to exceed the decibel level of a sigh she exp … more →

Tags: WorDs, Poetry, poetic asides prompt, visual poetry

Nov16__Monday4 comments

barbara_y wrote 1 month ago: Between breaths, literally, a brilliant blue Autumn sky turned into winter.  Suddenly the trees look … more →

Tags: Poetry, PAD Challenge, poetic asides prompt, winter, Transformation., Weather, Haiku, November, clouds

Revisionary #12 comments

barbara_y wrote 1 month ago: New game:  Makeover Monday.  Revise, Renew, Recycle and this week the idea is to pull some lines fro … more →

Tags: writing, Poetry, readwritepoem

new critique guidelines6 comments

barbara_y wrote 1 month ago: posthumous can be a scary idea for everyone. the processional will go much better, for you and for o … more →

Tags: writing, Poetry, readwritepoem

Nov13__Friday, Mantid days2 comments

barbara_y wrote 1 month ago: these last few have been mantid days and everywhere it seems, are tiny pale and tender green insect … more →

Tags: Poetry, Random, poetic asides prompt, Transformation., PAD Challenge, mantis, autumn, insect, Prayer

hawk (saw)

barbara_y wrote 1 month ago: just sitting down to check facebook I heard a hawk outside and was distracted into thoughts of house … more →

Tags: WorDs, PAD Challenge, poetic asides prompt

DIY. Kit Poem Day#36 comments

barbara_y wrote 1 month ago: liked the guitar and with a thirst We got lost one night outside of Crossville, three girls in an ol … more →

Tags: WorDs, Poetry, readwritepoem, Truth, Perception, blacktop

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 →

Tags: WorDs, Poetry, PAD Challenge, Beginnings, Travel

come, see18 comments

barbara_y wrote 1 month ago: come see come see come see lay-dees and gen-tul-men jack-son’s fay-mous rides and shows pre-sents:   … more →

Tags: WorDs, Poetry, readwritepoem, Growing Up, Family, summer, Carnival

Text Scramble (read write prompt #97)20 comments

barbara_y wrote 2 months ago: The prompt was to try out the cut-up technique.  I tried, and with varying degrees of luck.  I have … more →

Tags: WorDs, Random, readwritepoem, Transformation., writing, paper, Scissors, Cut-up, Wizzard

Forms: Sonnet (or maybe not)9 comments

barbara_y wrote 2 months ago: i think we’re not like others.  i am shy, retiring and, to tell the truth, a troll broad as a … more →

Tags: WorDs, Family, Humor, readwritepoem, poetic asides prompt, Transformation., aging, sonnet, love poem

spamming the wordle24 comments

barbara_y wrote 2 months ago: rwp prompt#96 /////wordle It may appear to you that in this instance I have finally gone round the b … more →

Tags: WorDs, Humor, readwritepoem, Beginnings, Transformation.

for forms' sake, thursday

barbara_y wrote 2 months ago: if there were no more dreams (something like a sonnet) . If there were no more dreams each hateful n … more →

Tags: readwritepoem, Poetry, writing, Side Effects, Dreams


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