If you’ve known me and my poetry for a while, you probably know I enjoy writing short Japanese forms like haiku, senyru, and tanka, so when today’s prompt was to…
Sometimes it feels like there’s a monster overhead,and not a polite onelike ones on Sesame Street.That wouldn’t be a bad thing.This one’s a giantwith pounding footsteps that stompuntil I can’t…
While there are many poems written with rhyming patterns, free verse is usually my preferred style of poetry. That’s not to say I haven’t tried my hand at sonnets and…
Today is National Haiku Day, chosen because haiku have 17 syllables, I suppose. I thought it would be apt to take today’s “city” prompt and write some haiku with opposing…
I’m ashamed to admit I totally missed International Haiku Day, typically celebrated on April 17th. I’m guessing they chose that particular day because April is Poetry Month and haikus have…
I’ve made it through the first fifth of Poetry month and the PAD challenge, so far, so good. Today’s prompt was to write a “minimal” poem, and you can’t get…
After a weekend with two parties in two days, my husband and I ended up with miserable head colds that just didn’t want to leave, no matter what we did….
Ho Ho Ho Here comes Santa Claus I’ve been good I love Christmas cards though I know they’re old-fashioned So few come today So many connections lost I still send…
You are misguided. If you take my silence as victory, you’re wrong. My voice bounces off stone walls. A waterfall would hear me. Put away your sword. You have no…
Love comes in many guises and depths. As Emily Dickenson once wrote: That love is all there is, is all we know of love. Valentine’s Day isn’t only about romantic…
