Poetics
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It’s Poetics Tuesday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. Our host, Mish has given us the task of selecting one of the movie quotes listed above and incorporate it into a poem of any style. I’ve chosen, “I wish I knew how to quit you” – Brokeback Mountain, 2005 – I wish I knew how to quit you.
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It’s Blue Tuesday over at the dVerse Poets Pub, hosted by Sarahsouthwest. “So tonight, let’s write blue. A splash of blue, an ocean of blue, a shimmer of blue. Gaze into the distance, or look down at the sapphire on your finger. Take us to the Blue Ridge Mountains or the Blue Lagoon. Hand me
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It’s Poetics Tuesday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. The challenge is to write a poem in the first person that compares some trait of ours with something animal. It should not be a whale, but another creature (mammal, fish, bird, insect, etc.) with which we have something in common. The title should be the animal thing, in
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It’s Fandango’s Flashback Friday! Wouldn’t you like to expose your newer readers to some of your earlier posts that they might never have seen? Or remind your long term followers of posts that they might not remember? Each Friday I will publish a post I wrote on this exact date in a previous year. How
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It’s Poetics Tuesday over at the dVerse Poets Pub! Today our writing prompt is to: “Choose an object from your home or outdoors. Look past the obvious characteristics and uses of this object. Spare us the details. Instead, take us to the connection that it has made with you or what it represents. What does
Ergo, the Ogre 