Wonderful Wednesday Celebrates Lincoln’s Birthday! February 12th is the birthday of Abraham Lincoln. Let’s celebrate this special day with a poem! Be creative, have fun and commemorate the birth of a famous American! Abraham Lincoln’s Birth Place Abraham Lincoln’s Mysterious Birth http://youtu.be/c_bWu3tp_9k
This Rondelet was written for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. Our theme is to try the Rondelet format and write about something or someone that/who makes you happy. HAPPINESS IS A WARM PUPPY A warm puppy. Peanuts’ Snoopy made us happy. A warm puppy. Nothing, not even a guppy or L’il Abner’s […]
Friday Fling #270 for Febuary 7th 2014 This week we’re featuring not so much a topic as a format. From Shadowpoetry.com: The Rondelet is a French form consisting of a single septet with two rhymes and one refrain: AbAabbA. The capital letters are the refrains, or repeats. The refrain is written in tetra-syllabic (four syllables) or […]
This was written for the CPC Thematic Attic Thursday poetry challenge. Host Bettie is celebrating National Lame Duck Day. LAME DUCK Lame duck, lame duck, why are you lame? Did you get hurt playing the game? Lame duck, lame duck, why can’t you walk? Is it because You can’t walk the talk? Lame duck, […]
Thematic Attic Thursday Nurses A Lame Duck In The Attic! We are discovering that there are all sorts of goofy National Days in the year. ne of them is today, National Lame Duck Day. Encourage your poetic muse to make the most of that concept! As always, our goal is to Be Creative, […]
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This Aknat was written to the image below, our featured pic on the CPC Simple Sunday Picture Challenge. It is by Irish artist Colin aka Fishbaker, and is titled “Fractal 270.” CAPTIVATING CORAL Coral beauty’s inviting. A color stampede. An explosion of splendor. But beware its jagged edge should you venture to its […]
Welcome to the CPC’s Simple Sunday Picture Challenge! We’re in Ireland this week to visit Colin aka Fishbaker on deviantart.com http://fishbaker.deviantart.com/ He specializes in digital designs. Our featured work this week is his “Fractal 270.” Write what your poetic muse sees in or imagines from this image Please click on the number next to the […]
Friday Fling #269 January 31st 2014 This week, for the first time ever, we’re reprising a reprise! A Friday Fling past. This one was originally posted on MySpace January 29th, 2010. The references are of course all from that time. All the pics are the originals from the 2010 blog. The reprise was #165, […]
Thematic Attic Thursday Plays With The Answering Machine! Answering messages can be a bit dull – “Sorry, John’s not here right now”… ” Please leave a message after the tone”.<!– Liven things up on Inane Answering Message Day by getting creative, being funny or silly with your message. It’s Inane Message Day Come have some […]
