My Friendburst blog #300! Congrats to me! These were created for the CPC Magic Monday and Pick-Apart Poetry challenges respectively. The Monday theme was “The Magic Of a Step.” STEP BY STEP Step right up and try your luck, taking one step at a time. Steppenwolf stepped lively. Russian Steppes far from sublime. Step increase […]
Welcome to the August 2012 Edition of “Pick-Apart Poetry” as we celebrate the unofficial end of summer and Labor Day which is celebrated on the first Monday in September, this year September 3rd. In the spirit of this celebration, we feature two poems which celebrate work and the worker. Walt Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing” […]
This is a special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. Poems should be posted there after the challenge opens Thursday evening at 8 PM EDT. Friday Fling #195 August 31st 2012 Do you remember the Fling we did where you were challenged to write about your favorite cartoon character? I think we […]
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 the collabs. Come on over and join in the fun. All are welcome!
This was written to the artpiece below, by Josephine Wall, titled “Seasons of Life,” which is featured this week on the CPC Simple Sunday Picture challenge. BUBBLE BABIES Babe in the woods wakes to light. Little Bo Peep a sheer delight, until her final maturity brings a nagging insecurty. Float into darkness as snowflakes fall. […]
Let us look at all of the first steps that come thru our lives “This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Neil Armstrong
Josephine Wall’s “Seasons of Life” A CHILD OF ALL THE SEASONS I am a child of all the seasons, delighting in each one as they pause only briefly and just long enough to infuse my heart and my imagination in their yearly revolution one by one; each year a bit shorter, it seems, than the […]
This was written for the CPC Saturday Share poetry challenge. Angel Love’s must use line is mentioned at the end. Midsection Murders to the themesong of the British TV series “Midsomer Murders” Like midnight oil keeps on burning, burning into the night, my gassy stomach keeps turning all out of sight. Burrito I ate keeps […]
A New Day
Cycle of Life
