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Friday, February 28, 2020

Poetry Sisters Look Back - Take 1

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In setting our challenges for this year, we decided that we would take time to revisit poems we wrote in previous outings. I  spent way too ...
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Friday, January 31, 2020

Poetry Sisters and the LAST Friday of the Month - January Haiku

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It seems late to be saying happy new year, but welcome 2020. This year my poetry sisters and I will be sharing our challenges on the LAST Fr...
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Friday, December 06, 2019

Poetry Sisters Write With/In Gratitude

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In this final month of the year, our challenge was to write a poem of gratitude in any form. I've been pondering favorite lines  of poet...
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Friday, November 01, 2019

Poetry Sisters Write Villanelles

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This month Tanita set the challenge to write a villanelle  on a wintry topic. We had the added requirement of including a pair of words (or ...
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Friday, October 04, 2019

Poetry Sisters Write Pastoral Poems

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Rebecca set this month's challenge to write a poem in the pastoral mode. We could choose the form and topic, so this one was wide open. ...
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Sunday, September 08, 2019

Poetry Sisters Get Herpetological

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Laura set this month's challenge to write a "poem comparing something with a snake — some snake pairing you think has never been do...
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Friday, August 23, 2019

Poetry Friday - #DearOneLBH

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Today I'm sharing a poem that includes a line from a Lee Bennett Hopkins poem and is inspired by the man himself. He is so very missed....
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Saturday, August 03, 2019

Poetry Sisters At It Again with Ekphrastic Poems

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This month the challenge was to write to one of three photos Sara shared with us. Here's the photo I chose and a few of the poems I scra...
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Thursday, July 04, 2019

Poetry Friday and Triolets

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Welcome! Poetry Friday is here today. It's also the first Friday of the month and that means the Poetry Sisters are sharing poems for a ...
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Friday, June 07, 2019

Poetry Sisters Write Skinny Poems

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Andi set this month's challenge to write a skinny poem. A skinny poem consists of eleven lines. Lines 1 and 11 can be any length and lin...
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Friday, May 03, 2019

Poetry Sisters Write Dizain

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Sara set this month's challenge to write a French Dizain, with bonus points awarded for using the word “square” in the poem. This form c...
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Tuesday, April 30, 2019

NPM 2019 Day 30: Personal Ad for a Frog

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It's hard to believe that April is coming to a close. The last poem I'm sharing is part of series of poems I am working on that rese...
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Monday, April 29, 2019

NPM 2019 Day 29: Scenes From a Train

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Today I'm sharing a poem I wrote for a 2008 challenge that required using  the five words   sky ,   knot ,   fork ,   wall , and   rose...
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Sunday, April 28, 2019

NPM 2019 Day 28: Acrostic Riddle

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For more than 10 years I've been working on a series of riddle poems on animal collectives. I'm not sure why I've been stuck on ...
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Saturday, April 27, 2019

NPM 2019 Day 27: Spread the Love

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Back in 2017 I was an authlete in the Madness! Poetry competition. My first round word was propagate and I wrote several poems before select...
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Friday, April 26, 2019

NPM 2019 Day 26: Prince's Lament

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As I mentioned earlier in the month, I love to write poems based on fairy tales. Today I'm sharing one inspired by the story of the frog...
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Thursday, April 25, 2019

NPM 2019 Day 25: Jade monkey with peach

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I traveled to Taiwan, China, and Tibet in 2007. While there, I bought jade figures for both my mother and father. For my mother I selected a...
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Wednesday, April 24, 2019

NPM 2019 Day 24: Acrostic Poem

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Because I love poetry and writing, they are often the subject of my poems. Today I'm sharing an acrostic on, what else, poetry! P hras...
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Tuesday, April 23, 2019

NPM 2019 Day 23: Inspired by the Dictionary

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I am a word collector. I like to read the dictionary and thesaurus for fun. Sometimes I'm inspired by words I read and write a poem base...
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Monday, April 22, 2019

NPM 2019 Day 22: Book Spine Poem for Earth Day

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For today's entry I culled my poetry shelves to create a poem for Earth Day. Outside your window red sings from treetops land, s...
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