This is a Special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. Poems should be posted there when the challenge opens Thursday evening at 9 PM EDT. Friday Fling #152 October 28th 2011 It’s almost Halloween, and time for monsters, ghouls and other trick-or-treaters! We love them little critters here on the Friday Fling! We […]
Send us a Heart if you LIKE this blog Welcome to Pick Apart Poetry! Please send your greetings to our featured guest poet “Bettie” Bettie has been so kind to send us a poem for our Challenge! Please take a moment to visit her profile and send her a Friend request If you have not […]
Here is something for the CPC Magic Monday poetry challenge. The topic is tides.
This was my write to the CPC Simple Sunday Picture Challenge, art by Nan, entitled “Blue Ice” I chose to ignore the title and focus on the impression of the image, which to me looked like the inside of something large and alive.
➡ Twilight was that Dawn Dish-washing Liquid blue That horrid Koolade color that tastes like battery acid And cold, colder than a well-diggers ass in February And I was half stoned and well, somewhat lucid The ice frosted on the window pane sparkled like sequins on a gay disco dancing fairy My greasy Mexican T.V. […]
Welcome all! I am excited to welcome back my sister: About the artist: Nan is one of my older and wiser sisters…lol. She has been a photographer since she was a teenager and starting digital art and manipulations last year, when we last featured her. Today’s artwork started off as a picture that she took […]
This is my composition for the CPC Saturday share poetry challenge. Cheryl’s line this week was “a new journey begins.”
They did not swirl in a lazy colorful blaze Tumbling in their graceful ballet without sound The leaves were crashing, hurling in a craze A sudden thunderstorm ripped them to the ground A torrent of leaves torn from their lofty perch The thick oaks, maples, ash, chestnut and willow Wildly whipping along with the skeletal […]
Friday Fling #151 October 21st 2011 As the weather gets cooler and the landscape looks bleaker, joys which remain available become more important. This is when things like comfort food become more valuable. What is comfort food? You know. Anything that gives you something special! This week we’re challengeing you to creatively express yours, and […]
This is for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. Our theme this week is comfort food, and the recommended format the Rictameter, a nine line poem of 2-4-6-8-10-8-6-4-2 syllables, in which the first and last line are the same word.
