CPC Meet & Greet Means Business!

  Welcome to MEET & GREET WEDNESDAY It’s about meeting people  Yeah My Keys  All In One Place  Tick Tack Computers at work see me write  Read what I write  At  Meet and Greet  Come join me and do bring a friend ~*~ Big Screen Computer  Oh Yeah  Better To See  What I Write And […]

POEM: View To A Cue

This was written to the image below, our featured picture on the CPC Simple Sunday Picture Challenge. It is by Portuguese artist Andres Rocha and is titled “Forgotten Places”   VIEW TO A CUE Off the coast of Ballantrae through frothy mists, some sailors say they see a ruin on a cliff as their ship […]

Simple Sunday Welcomes Andres Rocha of Portugal!

  Welcome to the CPC’s Simple Sunday Picture Challenge!   This week we are featuring Portuguese artist Andres Rocha.     His specialty is fantastical landscapes. This is one of his newest works, titled “Forgotten Places.”   Write what your poetic muse sees in or imagines from this image. Please click on the number next […]

POEM: Labor Day Weekend

This was composed for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge.  Our them is the meaning and aspects of Labor Day Weekend, the recommended format the Musette, which is explained on the CPC challenge.   LABOR DAY WEEKEND Enjoy this Labor Day Weekend. You work. Reward yourself with fun. Do what you like before it’s gone. […]

REPRISE: The Friday Fling Muse(tte)s on Labor Day Weekend!

This is a special reprised edition, of Fling #144 from 2011.   Friday Fling #247 August 30th 2013   Friday another Labor Day weekend begins. Every year we have one. You’ve lived through a few of them. What do you associate with them, or what do they mean to you? What do you like to […]

Thematic Attic Thursday Considers Home Safety From The Safety Of The Attic!

Welcome to Thematic Attic Thursday!   Home safety comes first ..   So tell us in your own poetic way what you do and/or would/should do to keep it that way ..   Or reflect on some aspect of home safety Have fun ..     National Safe at Home Week: 26-30 (Last M-F Week) […]

CPC POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Muse(tte)s On Labor Day Weekend!

This is a Special Preview of the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. Poems should be posted there after the challenge opens Thursday evening at 9 PM EDT. ***** This is a special reprised edition, of Fling #144 from 2011. Yes we were too lazy this week to create a new one. BTW I’m pretty certain […]

POEM: Dream Date

This was composed for the CPC Pick-Apart poetry challenge, from words in two excerpted stanzas from a poem by Adelaide Crapsey, who also invented the Cinquain.  The two original  poems follow my Pic n Poem.   THE PROPERLY SCHOLARLY ATTITUDE The poet pursues his beautiful theme; The preacher his golden beatitude ; And I run […]

REASONS RESPONSE {a poem}

Above the dream rising in the mist, the reason oblivious……. that the notion is what gave it those wings, and the reason it now flies, is because it is what it is. Applied consent has long since withered, along with repetitive denials…… and stands weakened  broken within it, as if shocked by someone elses betrayal, […]

CPC PICK-APART POETRY CELEBRATES LABOR DAY AND BACK-TO-SCHOOL

Welcome to the August 2013 Edition of PICK-APART POETRY as we once more celebrate the unofficial end of summer which coincides with Labor Day     and with the beginning of a new school year.       And as we look forward to autumn and some cooler weather, we feature two poems, one celebrating […]