Category Archives: Poetry Thursday

>Saturday After 5 Days Gone

Posted on February 14, 2007 by

> Saturday After 5 Days Gone Blue bird on silvery black wing flies.An aging sunbeam, having lefthome just short light years ago,strains to curve around the horizonto glow through iced windows,would-be enticement for any sleepy cat.Red berries hang on cold … Continue reading →

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>Unproven Theorem

Posted on February 1, 2007 by

>Let Y equal X be the given.Make the sun revolve round the moon.Send the clocks spinning backwardshalting the moment before the wordscame crashing, cascading down intounknown caverns in my heart. Goback. Screech the brakes. Pull outall the stops. Don’t let … Continue reading →

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>Bending the rules with a very long title: Writing about why I like poetry by describing what Poetry can be, in 153 words or less

Posted on January 26, 2007 by

>Writing prompt from Poetry Thursday. AbsorbingAbstractAlchemicAlluringAmusingArresting ArtistryAssertiveAssociativeBalladryBeautyBeguilingBewitchingCadenceCaptivatingCharmingChimericalCleverCogentCommandingCommunicationCompactCompellingConciseConcreteConfoundingConsequentialConvincingCreativeCrypticDelightfulDiscernableDoggerelDramaticDrollEffectiveElegantElementalEmotionalEmpathicEnergeticEngrossingEnigmaticEntertainingEnthrallingEnvyEsotericEssentialEvocativeExcitingExpressiveExquisiteExtraordinaryFeelingFigurativeFoolishForcefulFormFulfillingFunGenerousGracefulGrandHarmoniousHumanisticImaginativeImportantImpressiveIndulgentIneluctableInfluentialIngenuityInspiringIntenseInterestingInventiveIrresistibleJoyfulLanguageLife-affirmingLivelyLongingLoveLucidLustLyricalMeaningfulMeasuredMelodiousMetaphoricMetricalMournfulMysticNaturalOralPaeanisticPassionatePeacefulPersuasivePiquantPleasantPoignantPotentProfaneProvocativePuzzlingQuietingRadiantReadableRefreshingRelaxingRemarkableRevealingRhythmicRomanticRuthlessSacredSatisfyingSeductiveSensualSensuousSignificantSirenicSonglikeSoundsSpellbindingSpiritualSpokenStimulatingSympatheticTamingTeasingThought provokingThrillingTimelessTraditionTreasuredTrueTruthfulnessUnequivocalUniversalUnlockableUnusualUnyieldingVerseVicariousVitalVocabularyWinsomeWiseWonderfulWordsZippy

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>Embracing Quiet

Posted on January 15, 2007 by

>This week’s writing prompt for Poetry Thursday was to take a line offered by another writer. I chose a line from Pauline’s poem Living Alone, originally posted 1/7/07 at Writing Down the Words. I made a small adaptation of Pauline’s … Continue reading →

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>Intersecting Communities

Posted on December 7, 2006 by

>Two weeks ago, I posted a meme and tagged four people. I had no idea if they would post answers to the meme on their blogs. I wasn’t even sure if they would realize that I had tagged them. Not … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Memes and Challenges, Poetry, Poetry Thursday | 8 Comments

>Poetry is Like

Posted on November 26, 2006 by

>UPDATE: I’ve added a few more links from the last few days. I’ve found over 50 bloggers who have done this meme. Lots of thought-provoking responses. This meme is the writing prompt at Poetry Thursday this week; click over there … Continue reading →

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>Poetry Meme

Posted on November 23, 2006 by

>I’ve been wanting to create a meme for sometime. I could be wrong, but I think that many readers of this blog do not read poetry, or at least not with the same passion they read fiction. I also find … Continue reading →

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>Too tough a puzzle…and a poem

Posted on November 2, 2006 by

>I should have broken the rules and chosen another book when I did the “What am I Reading” post last week. I don’t think that I would have guessed it either. I am so bad at remembering quotes. Google would … Continue reading →

Posted in Mary Oliver, Memes and Challenges, Poetry, Poetry Thursday | 7 Comments

>Guess the book (I can never play by the rules even when I try….)

Posted on October 27, 2006 by

>Dorothy did this meme today & since I had just finished cataloging my newly acquired books into LibraryThing and they were sitting nearby the keyboard, I had to do this. And I hated the results on page 123, but here … Continue reading →

Posted in Books Read 2006, Memes and Challenges, Poetry, Poetry Thursday | 5 Comments

>A little surprise, a bit about reading, words, and poetry

Posted on September 7, 2006 by

>Lots of different ideas scurrying around my brain today. First:I don’t like Tennyson. I loathed reading him in high school. I hated having to memorize “The Charge of the Light Brigade”. Although I understood what the teacher meant by admonishing … Continue reading →

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