CPC PICK-APART POETRY LOOKS FORWARD TO THE WINTER OLYMPICS

Welcome to the January 2014 Edition of PICK-APART POETRY where we have fun each month sharing our words and our friendship in a “pick-apart-poetry” kind of way. With the Sochi Winter Olympics just around the corner, this month we celebrate our favorite winter sports and activities. Please select 25 words from Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Winter-Time” […]

Sunday Picture Challenge Gets Gnarly In Finland!

  Welcome to the CPC’s Simple Sunday Picture Challenge!   This week we are back on Earth in Finland, digitally visiting Jan aka BoxTail.   He specializes in digital art. Our featured image this week is his latest posting, titled “Gnarl Gnarl Gnarl.” Write what your poetic muse sees in or imagines from this image […]

The Friday Fling Celebrates Anniversaries!

  Friday Fling #268 for January 24th 2014   Tomorrow is your host’s 45th wedding anniversary. So our theme this week is anniversaries. What important one(s) figure in your life and why? No particular format this week, use your muse’s preferred method of expressing yourself This week the Friday Fling celebrates anniversaries! Be sure to […]

Thematic Attic Thursday Does Handwriting In The Attic!

  Thematic Attic Thursday Does Some Handwriting In The Attic! Put pen to paper, or the computer equivalent, this National Handwriting Day 23 January 2014 Share your muse just write what your heart so desires It’s writing day here at The Thematic Attic Thursday

Wonderful Wednesday Savors Sweets!

Wonderful Wednesday Savors Sweets! Let’s take that as the starting point for writing about dessert and sweet snacks! 22 National Blonde Brownie Day

POEM: No Place Like Space

This was written to the featured image on this week’s CPC Simple Sunday Picture challenge. It’s by a Deviantart.com artist who calls himself  QUaZ, and is titled “Beautiful Saturn.”   NO PLACE LIKE SPACE Out beyond the edge of dawn where dogs don’t poop upon your lawn, the space is clear of fog and air, […]

Simple Sunday Is Out Of This World!

Welcome to the CPC’s Simple Sunday Picture Challenge! We’re leaving Earth this week to visit the Unknown. That’s the listed location of our featured artist, whose Deviant art display name is simply QAuZ. http://qauz.deviantart.com/ He’s been on Deviantart.com for five years, and his specialty you may be able to guess is out of this world. […]

POEM: Jenny Linn Loves To Win

This was written for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge, where our theme is favorite indoor games, with the recommended format one I invented this past week, the Twaddle.  See previous blog for details on this format. This is Jenny between her two older sisters Marilyn and Julie, in June 2012 JENNY LINN LOVES TO […]

The Friday Fling Plays Indoor Games!

  Friday Fling #267 for January 17th 2014   Now that we’re a week away from the dead middle of winter, most of us are spending a lot more time indoors. And a lot of us spend some leisure time playing games. Board games. Card games. Games of chance. Video games. And such. That is […]

Thematic Attic Thursday Finds…Nothing In The Attic!

Thematic Attic Thursday Finds Nothing In The Attic!   Can you believe it?  January 16th is National Nothing Day. Time to take time out to do…nothing. More important for our purposes, time to take time to write about…nothing. Is that a challenge or what? We hope our theme amuses your muse to write something about […]