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Sunday, April 14, 2019

NPM 2019 Day 14: A Cartwheel Is a Poem

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In December I wrote a list poem entitled How I Turned That Frown Upside Down . This was the last stanza. I still whistle and read the funn...
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Saturday, April 13, 2019

NPM 2019 Day 13: Prefix Poem

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Long ago I read a post at the blog  How A Poem Happens . In it,  poet  Idra   Novey  shared her poem Trans  and described its creation. In t...
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Friday, April 12, 2019

NPM 2019 Day 12: Blackout Poem

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Today I'm sharing a blackout poem I created from one of the earliest entries from the blog of The Julie/Julia Project . The entry I used...
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Thursday, April 11, 2019

NPM 2019 Day 11: Mirror

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I have a great fondness for poems related to fairy tales. Here's a poem I wrote using Eve Merriam's poem "Apple" as a ment...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2019

NPM 2019 Day 10: Picture Day

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I few weeks ago I was visiting my elementary school and it was picture day. For the students, it was a day filled with excitement and more t...
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Tuesday, April 09, 2019

NPM 2019 Day 9: Bittersweet Memories of Mary

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In 2010 I wrote a poem for Jama Rattigan's Poetry Potluck series . I've since dusted off that poem and revised it. The new version i...
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Monday, April 08, 2019

NPM 2019 Day 8: What does a Yankee know of the bayou?

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Here's another poem I wrote for the summer poetry swap in 2017. This poem was written for Margaret Simon of Reflections on the Teche. Si...
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Sunday, April 07, 2019

NPM 2019 Day 7: Paoay Church

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It's Sunday, so a church inspired poem seems appropriate to share today. Two years ago I participated in the summer poem swap sponsored...
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Saturday, April 06, 2019

NPM 2019 Day 6: Minor Miracles Happen Every Day

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Back in February, the Poetry Sister's monthly challenge was to write a poem in the style of Marilyn Nelson’s “ Minor Miracle ,” about a ...
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Friday, April 05, 2019

NPM 2019 Day 5: Poetry Sisters Write Anagram Poems

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It's the first Friday of the month, so that means the poetry sisters have taken up another poetic challenge. This month we focused on wr...
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Thursday, April 04, 2019

NPM 2019 Day 4: Inspired by Calvin and Hobbes

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I find art, beauty, poetry, and smiles sometimes in the strangest places. A while back I saw these bags while waiting in line at a Which Wic...
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Wednesday, April 03, 2019

NPM 2019 Day 3: Hollar's Work

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There is an exhibition currently at the VMFA entitled Hollar’s Encyclopedic Eye: Prints from the Frank Raysor Collection . Wenceslaus Hollar...
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Tuesday, April 02, 2019

NPM 2019 Day 2: Ekphrastic Haiku

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A wrote a number of poems Saturday while at the VMFA. One of the activities in the workshop was to write sensory descriptors for one of the ...
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Monday, April 01, 2019

NPM 2019 Day 1: A Triolet for Spring

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Last year during National Poetry Month I shared a poem that was new to me each day. I loved exploring poets I hadn't read before. This y...
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Friday, March 01, 2019

Mask Poems with My Poetry Sisters

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Where did February go?! For March, Laura challenged us to write a mask poem from the point of view of any everyday object (toothbrush, penci...
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Friday, February 01, 2019

Poetry Sisters Write in the Style of "Minor Miracle"

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Phew! I thought January would never end, but I hoped for a bit more time before the first Friday of the month to debut these poems. Oh well,...
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Thursday, January 17, 2019

Poetry Friday Is Here!

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"But I got saved by poetry. And I got saved by the beauty of the world." - Mary Oliver I'm heartbroken at the loss of Mary...
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Friday, January 04, 2019

Ringing in the New Year with My Poetry Sisters

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My sisters and I have committed to another year of poetry challenges. We were a bit late on deciding this month's, so I tossed out a few...
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Friday, December 07, 2018

Poetry Friday - Poetry Sisters Write List Poems

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When I was a cadet at the USCGA, I received demerits for whistling. I was called out by the company commander who told me whistling was for ...
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Friday, November 02, 2018

Poetry Sisters Write - Anaphora

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This month's challenge was set by Tanita, who proposed we write in any form, but using anaphora.  Anaphora  is the repetition of a word ...
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Friday, October 05, 2018

Short Poems with My Poetry Sisters

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This month's challenge, set by Laura, was to write a short poem (6 lines or fewer) describing an animal of our choosing using three word...
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Friday, September 07, 2018

Writing Centos With My Poetry Sisters

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The challenge this month, set by Sara, was to write a cento. Here are the directions we received. I pick a line of poetry from a poet outs...
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Friday, August 10, 2018

#pb10for10 - Encouraging the Skill of Observation

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I've spent the last two weeks cleaning my office and weeding my bookshelves. That means I've put my hands on every book and have...
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Friday, August 03, 2018

Writing Sestinas with the Poetry Sisters

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This month the challenge we undertook was to write a sestina. It's been 3 years, so it seemed like time. Yeah, not so much! A sesti...
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