I’m feeling rather poetic today. Why?
Maybe it’s the view outside my kitchen window:
Thin lavender clouds,
strewn like tattered
throw rugs along a pale horizon.
(Is “throw rug” ever a poetic phrase?)
Or it might be the song that’s stuck in my head:
Trousers loosed,
Abandoned to battle
gravity – beltless.
Imprudent-seeming, you
Speed their journey to earth.
(Not sure what the song is? Hopefully viewing this [...]

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A sunbeam, more powerful
Than the clouds
That try to contain it,
Paints a line of light
Across the living room floor.
And upward in the beam
Tiny particles spin
through still indoor air
Like principal dancers
In a microscopic ballet.
I blink. Black letters fade
Into white background.
Pupils contracting, I peer
At a screen of liquid crystal,
Peppered with dancing dust.

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I’ve been struggling to write these last [...]

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FRIDAY, FRIDAY, FRIDAY! It’s…

If you read me regularly, you’ve probably come to expect the usual inane and ridiculous observations about my journey as a mom, country dweller, embarrassing world traveler, and word nerd.
If that’s all you want to see, you might want to skip tomorrow’s post.
Cuz I’m gettin’ all LITERARY on y’all.
Blame Robin at Pensieve. [...]

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Now I don’t claim to be a poet. But I’ve decided to take up the challenge made by Robin at Pensieve in her monthly…

This month I’m learning a new poetic form: the CINQUAIN.
It has bunches of definitions, but I chose the one used by most schoolchildren here in the States:
1 Noun
2 Two Adjectives
3 Three Gerunds [...]

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Today feels like a haiku day. Of course, I’m not sure what a haiku day is. It’s just that it’s rainy and I’m grumpy and for some reason short, sarcastic stuff is really easy to write…
Do you think I might turn into Rosie O’Donnell?
I hope not.
BTW, Haiku is a poem of 17 syllables long, on [...]

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