These are for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. This week Michelle and I are looking for writes about camping out or summer camp memories. Writers are also asked to use a song title or two by the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, who once did a whole album about“singing around the campfire.” […]
INTO THE DARKNESS I hear them even now when the night is still, trailing off into the darkness amid hushed whispers, muffled shudders and muted gasps, the ghost stories and scary tales we told around the campfire as the flames licked the black of night, stories told at precisely midnight when […]
LOOKING FORWARD TO VACATION I’m looking forward to vacation, can’t get it off my mind; it’s that time of year, and I hear vacation calling me. I’m dreaming of that day real soon when my flight lifts off the ground and takes me to the warm beaches I love and palm trees gently swaying in […]
Friday Fling #136 July 8th 2011 Now that we are past the signature “midsummer” celebration on the Fourth of July (even though it really comes less than two weeks after the official START of Summer), it’s all downhill from here. Right to the campground, or for many kids, summer camp! Are you like me and […]
I wrote this tonight for the CPC Thematic Attic Thursday poetry challenge. Yes it’s more of a short story. But I wanted to include all the words in the challenge Diane and Jon offered. I ended up inadvertently missing several, but I took them as they came, which is ALWAYS fun. Framing it fuzzed the […]
“Don`t Put All Your Eggs In One Omelet Day“ Is celebrated on July 8th this year! This is a much welcomed day for those who enjoy all types of omelets! This day is celebrated as a symbol for “Prudence and Conservation“ And is meant as a way to promote both of these concepts worldwide! National […]
LOST WITHIN THE REVERIE Moving silently within and among the passageways of afternoon reveries, thoughts long forgotten, imagination’s wanderings these dreams of day, shadowy reflections, scenes of another time, another place, muted brushstrokes within the canvas, impressions momentary, flickering for an instant and then temporarily lost to the hazy recollections forgotten only […]
This is a special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. Poems should be posted there when the challenge opens Thursday at 9 PM EDT. Friday Fling #136 July 8th 2011 Now that we are past the signature “midsummer” celebration on the Fourth of July (even though it really comes less than two weeks […]
All Is One
Greetings Poetic Pals! Welcome once again to another “Meet and Greet!” Please take a few moments and send a greeting to All the poets that stop by here today! “Howdy!!” We bring you a fun poetic challenge this month Let’s set our muse on a quest… We shall focus on three topics or themes… Fusion…Sparks…and […]
