POEM: The Charge of the Fling Brigade

This was written as part of the commemoration of the 200th CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. THE CHARGE OF THE FLING BRIGADE Through the valley of cyberlife rode the two hundred Friday Fling challenges for all poetic types. Thinking and feeling and typing it out, expressing deep joys and great sorrows and gripes. Recession, depression, […]

The Friday Fling Celebrates Its 200th Poetry Challenge!

Friday Fling #200 October 5th 2012 Hard to believe but yes our best calculation suggests this is Fling #200! Gotta celebrate that! It all began four years ago at the end of October 2008 when the CPC was running under a different name over on MySpace. The Fling was conceived as a challenge to write […]

POEMS: Dendrological Love Lore and Would That Wood Could

These were created for the CPC Thematic Attic Thursday poetry challenge.  Diane and Bettie want writes about “if you were as a tree.” Dendrological Love Lore Out in a forest with no ends in sight, their drama played out in the day and the night. Standing together at edge of a clearing enmeshed branches rubbing […]

CPC POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Celebrates Its 200th Challenge!

This is a special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge.  Poems should be posted there after the challenge opens Thursday evening at 9 PM EDT. Friday Fling #200 October 5th 2012 Hard to believe but yes our best calculation suggests this is Fling #200! Gotta celebrate that! It all began four years ago […]

Thematic Attic~You Are As A Tree

Welcome to Thematic Attic.. You Are As A Tree Nourishment as love, water, food both need Look and feel as coldness viewed   but, branching  reaching out Play me a song growing as one we are As leaves fall, winter freeze , resting new growth soon to be Enjoy having fun being creative in a […]

BEFORE THEY FADE AWAY

BEFORE THEY FADE AWAY Reaching out into that sometimes rather blank space, I try to catch them, to make them mine before they fade away, words and lines tumbling and tripping and falling down and making little sense all by themselves; just random thoughts almost begging for company, to be put together into something new, […]

Wonderful Wednesday Welcome Meet and Greet All New Poets & Old

Welcome To Wonderful Wednesday ~Meet and Greet~ A Special  monthly blog as we Meet and Greet all Especially our new readers,poets and writers to CPC Let`s give a warm welcome As a poet family , a family tree Your poetry touches our hearts and you do, too Please, remember to comment your fellow poets Bring […]

IT’S THAT TIME, GIVE ME ONE-MORE-LINE!!!

Please leave a heart if you like this blog! This is the first blog of three for the “CPC” Collab development process!!! On this blog we add lines and play off each others lines to generate lines for Collaborative poetry that everyone who participates will use to create poems later in the week!!! PLEASE read […]

Raindrops

Raindrops In a field w e lay down dreams everlasting Tinted with the meadows reflective haze Graced through the kisses of the sun And watered with the raindrops of heaven Time is so precious, yet guided by our images Space beco mes filled with the dreams of youth As the earth moves forward in its […]

JUST THANKS — a Magic Monday piece

JUST THANKS When I was young I used to think I was indestructible, or so I thought, that I’d never get old; I’d be like Peter Pan and live forever with the Lost Boys within the realms of Never-Never land. I just knew it way down deep inside that I’d always be a kid, that […]