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  • not a sonnet, but another rhyme

    i've about decided maybe reading the Proverbs in KJV is what's inclining me to more traditional forms of verse right now. btw, i've fallen WAY behind in the challenge of a poem a day from Proverbs, but .... maybe i can…

  • sonnet

    oh, dear! i've taken up a challenge from some poetry buds to write a poem a day in July based on the book of Proverbs. we'll see if i persevere through the month! here's a formal sonnet for day 3, based on a line from…

  • exceptional image

    still haven't been writing much poetry. editing and mentoring have been occupying my time and that's good work, too. saw a note on Writers' Almanac a couple of days ago about a man who purposed to get up and write a ne…

  • baby shower

    we have lots of baby showers in our church because it is a growing church with lots of young families. when i was younger, i didn't like showers. wasn't really comfortable with rooms full of so much estrogen, but i'm m…

  • ...so we decided

    '...so we decided....' is today's prompt for the April poem-a-day challenge on the Writers Digest poetry blog. …so we decided John 21 to go fishing. We were tired, you know. Passover week, crucifixion, resurrectio…

  • Carolina Wren

    doing another poem-a-day challenge from the blog of Writers Digest poetry editor, Robert Lee Brewer, for National Poetry Month. here's day four -- a poem about an animal. the Carolina wren is a beautiful little bird i …

  • outsiders

    one prompt from the poem-a-day challenge was to write a poem about someone on the outside of your theme. the epigraph is from St. Augustine's Confessions. The Outsiders Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ev…

  • been there

    'been there' was the prompt for November 23 in the poem-a-day challenge. i'm not sure this one will make the cut when choosing poems to go into a chapbook on my theme of 'beauty will save the world,' but it's what i th…

  • poem-a-day continues

    still working on the poem-a-day challenge, with a theme of 'beauty will save the world.' today's prompt was to write a response to any of the poems written earlier in the month. on November 7, the prompt was to write s…

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