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Thursday, January 16, 2025

Poetry Friday is Here!

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Happy New Year, poetry people! I'm delighted to be hosting you this week. I have been working on my cards for the New Year poetry postca...
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Friday, December 27, 2024

Poetry Sisters Write Haibun and/or Haiga

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For the last month of the year, the challenge was to write a haibun or haiga.  The  haibun  is is a poetic form first created by Matsuo Bash...
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Thursday, December 12, 2024

Poetry Friday - Holiday Poetry Swap and a Poem

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For years, Tabatha Yeatts, who blogs at The Opposite of Indifference , has coordinated both a summer and winter (holiday) poetry swap. I app...
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Friday, November 29, 2024

Poetry Sisters Write to Jane Hirshfield's Two Versions

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I missed our Zoom this week, so I went into this challenge blind. Mary Lee set this back in January when she was enamored of a new-ish poem ...
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Friday, September 27, 2024

Poetry Sisters and Seven Ways of Looking

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This month's challenge was  to write in the style of Wallace Stevens' poem  Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird . Since 13 stanz...
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Friday, August 30, 2024

Poetry Sisters Write Ekphrastic Poems

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At least once yearly, we challenge ourselves to write poems to photographs or works of art. I love writing to the shared images and rarely c...
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Friday, July 26, 2024

Poetry Sisters Write Want-Ad Haiku

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The challenge this month was to write haiku in the form of classified ads. It's been a doozy of a month for me for too many reasons to r...
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Friday, June 28, 2024

Poetry Friday is Here!

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Welcome to Poetry Friday! I'm so happy to be hosting you here today, especially on this last Friday of the month when my poetry sisters ...
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Friday, May 31, 2024

Poetry Sisters in Homage to Body Parts and Lucille Clifton

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This month's challenge was to write in the style of Lucille Clifton while paying homage to a body part, as she does in the poem  homage ...
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024

NPM 2024 - Book Spine Poem 30

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For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. Since someone pointed out I'd written p...
Monday, April 29, 2024

NPM 2024 - Book Spine Poem 29

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    For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. Stichin' and Pullin' a Gee'...
Sunday, April 28, 2024

NPM 2024 - Book Spine Poem 28

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   For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. Climb into my lap here’s a little poem y...
Saturday, April 27, 2024

NPM 2024 - Book Spine Poem 27

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For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. Count Down to Fall Shrinking days, frosty n...
Friday, April 26, 2024

Poetry Sisters Write Poems to Unanswerable Questions

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This month the Poetry Sisters' challenge was to dream up an unanswerable question and answer it in a poem. For example, in the poem ...
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NPM 2024 - Book Spine Poem 26

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Happy Poetry Friday! For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. Up in the garden and d...
Thursday, April 25, 2024

NPM 2024 - Book Spine Poem 25

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For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. Today's poem was inspired by this year...
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

NPM 2024 - Book Spine Poem 24

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For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. We  wonder the shape of the world gravity s...
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

NPM 2024 - Book Spine Poem 23

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For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. Poem-Making Look to the stars listen to the...
Monday, April 22, 2024

NPM 2024 - Book Spine Poem 22

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For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. Ten flashing fireflies light up the night c...
Sunday, April 21, 2024

NPM 2024 - Book Spine Poem 21

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For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. Firefly July Marshmallow clouds enchanted a...