THEMATIC ATTIC THURSDAY SAYS HELLO WORLD! We hear it is World Hello Day. How do you say hello world? Well that’s our simple theme: saying “hello world.” Maybe pick a short poetry format and make it a greeting. Or just explain how “hello world” is done. But just remember, and this bears repeating, your […]
Wonderful Beautiful Day Wednesday What is your idea of a beautiful day? Or tell us about an actual beautiful day you experienced, perhaps your personal Most Beautiful Day. Or perhaps it is simply any day you can Be Creative and Have Fun! Thanking you in advance for your presence, which can be shown by […]
This was written to the image below, featured on this week’s CPC Simple Sunday Picture challenge. It is by Cyril Rolando of France and is titled “Save our Souls” SOULSEARCH Upon the evelasting sea human souls float perilously at the whims of storm-tossed waves which threaten all with cold wet graves and seem to […]
Welcome to the CPC’s Simple Sunday Picture Challenge! Our featured artist this week is a very interesting character who lives in France, Cyril Rolandi, aka AquaSixio on deviantart.com. http://aquasixio.deviantart.com/ His Deviant Art page includes a long autobiography/introspection in which he describes himself as “realistic and quite pessimistic …I don’t think of myself as […]
Friday Fling #258 for November 15th 2013 Continuing the theme started in the CPC’s Thematic Attic yesterday, this week’s Fling approaches another sort of lost; lost friends. Unlike finding friends, which can be difficult, friends, especially cyberfriends, are easy to lose. Our lives change, or theirs do, or both do. Friendships depend on maintaining […]
This is a special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. Poems should be posted there after the challenge opens Thursday evening at 9 PM EST. Friday Fling #258 for November 15th 2013 Continuing the theme started in the CPC’s Thematic Attic yesterday, this week’s Fling approaches another sort of lost; lost friends. […]
We are a little late with this one. But the door to our Thematic Attic was locked, and it took us awhile to locate the key. November 6th was Marooned Without a Compass Day It asked significant questions: Which direction will you take today? How is your sense of direction? Do you often find yourself […]
Welcome To Wonderful Kindnessday Wednesday! We’re taking a cue from the fact that October 13th is World Kindness Day, to suggest that you write about kindness. It can take endless forms. But the one thing all have in common is that someone is helped, or made to feel better. Perhaps one or more […]
This is a reprise of our November 11, 2011 challenge. Friday Fling #257 November 8th 2013 Monday November 11th is Veterans’ Day, a day to remember and show our appreciation for the soldiers who have served. It was established after World War I on Armistice Day, when that war, one of the worst in history, […]
Thematic Attic Thursday Pigs (and Poems) Out On Chocolate! Can you believe it? November 7th is Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day Who assigned that distinction to this day, a chocoholic or an almondoholic? Is your poetic muse a chocaholic? An almondoholic? Well holic out, write it down and post it here! […]
