REPRISE: The Friday Fling Enjoys Christmas Music!

  This is a reprise of our December 16th, 2011 challenge, Friday Fling #159. The original had 634 views, 119 comments including fifteen poems posted by eight different writers, and thirteen hearts.   Friday Fling #262 December 13th 2013 As many classical music and most Peanuts fans know, December 16th is Beethoven’s birthday. That made […]

POEM: Evergreen Echoes

This Haiku was written for the CPC’s Thematic Attic Thursday poetry challenge, where the theme is evergreens.

Thematic Attic Thursday Smells Pine In The Attic Air!

Thematic Attic Thursday Smells Fresh Pine In The Attic Window Air! Evergreen!  Smell the fragrance of pine in the winter air! See new fallen snow on outstretched limbs. Listen for the soft whistle of a winter breeze through the needles. Let your muse be inspired. Share your feelings for the evergreen .. Hugzzzzzzzs Now .. […]

We’re Baking Cookies On This Wonderful Wednesday!

Baking Cookies on a Wonderful Wednesday! It’s Bake Cookies Day! Which ones are your favorites? Chocolate chip, sugar, peanut butter or… Do you bake your own?  How? Share your muse in a poetic way and/or relevent viideos and/or pictures.

POEM: Strange Renewal

This was created for the CPC Simple Sunday Picture challenge. The featured photograph is by Nelleke Pieters of The Netherlands, and it titled “Strange Things.”   STRANGE RENEWAL Cold green-gray mist enshrouds his world, shot through with tree barks black and burled. The path is clear and bright below, wide and straight and white with […]

Simple Sunday Picture Challenge Goes Dutch Treat!

  Welcome to the CPC’s Simple Sunday Picture Challenge! This week we feature a work by photographic artist Nelleke Pieters of the Netherlands.   She has been posting on Deviantart.com for seven years, and her speciality is nature photography, especially woodland scenes. http://nelleke.deviantart.com/ Her latest work is our feature this week, titled “Strange Things.”   […]

The Friday Fling Contemplates This Date!

  Friday Fling #262 for December 13th 2013   It’s Friday the Thirteenth! What does that mean to you? To a lot of people traditionally it was a day to take special care to watch out for bad luck. What better time to write about luck, good fortune or bad, or the significance of Fridays […]

POEM: Ding-A-Ling Lore

This was written for the CPC’s Thematic Attic Thursday poetry challenge. Host Bettie’s theme is National Ding-A-Ling Day.   DING-A-LING LORE   When Chuck sang of his ding-a-ling, did he mean some non-ringing thing? When Anita Wood urged “ring my bell” was there meaning she could not tell? The question, I am assuming, is: is […]

CPC POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Contemplates This Date!

This is a special preview for the CPC’s Friday Fling poetry challenge. Poems should be posted there after the challenge opens Thursday evening at 9 PM EST.   Friday Fling #262 for December 13th 2013   It’s Friday the Thirteenth! What does that mean to you? To a lot of people traditionally it was a […]

Thematic Attic Thursday Finds A Ding-A-Ling In The Attic!

  Thematic Attic Thursday notes that this is National Ding-A-Ling Day! Bring on your bells lets so share your Ding A Lings Whether it is bells, or dance, or odd behavior in a poem, or A video will do just fine Maybe a picture or two Just let you muse be you guide