CPC POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Takes Oxymorons Downtown!

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 #228 for April 19th 2013 A famous historian once equated civilization with cities. Urbanization was said to provide more opportunities for social communication of ideas […]

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

Please leave a heart if you like this blog!     To learn more about the Collab Process Click Here     IT’S THAT TIME, GIVE ME ONE-MORE-LINE!!!   This week’s line:   LET YOUR CONSCIENCE BE YOUR GUIDE Everyone is welcome to participate.  

Deanna Durbin in “Spring Parade” (1940)

Here you go, another reason to be happy!

POEM: Lifeshine

This is my production for the CPC Magic Monday poetry challenge, where the theme is Spring sunshine.  A “Baskerick” is a form of Limerick I made up for this challenge, “bask” relating to sunshine in a Limerick format without the first two lines rhyming.  It is similar to and a wordplay on another format I […]

Magic Monday~Magical Warmth Spring`s Sun Brings

Welcome To Magic Monday Where We Bring Out The Magic In Poetry   Tonight We bring out the Magic In Warmth Spring`s Sun Brings   Warmth of sun feel as shared Inner peace beauty within Bringing the inner child out Warmth inspiring you in many ways Moods change as warmth encourages you New growth view […]

the weirdness continues…

completely on her own, the “roomie” is (as of this writing) allowing me to drive to the gig in Wheaton…so I may rethink my dinner plans–I THINK I have enuff money to get a burger at Wendy’s…it’s prolly not quite as good as the burger I would get at the Pub, but it’s not that […]

Meet the Bonobos 4

Meet the Bonobos 4 Kanzi the Toolmaker Kanzi Understands Spoken Language Chimpanzees thriving in Gishwati Endangered Mountain Gorillas Gishwati Area Conservation Program Forest of Hope is in good hands Tracking the Forest of Hope chimpanzees A day in the life of Matata, Great Ape Trust bonobo matriarch The Amazing Apes Bonobos: Home Sweet Home

Great Expectations (1946) John Mills Valerie Hobson

A Dickens of a good old movie…

POEM: Sideways

This was my belated write for the CPC Saturday Share poetry challenge.  Angel Love’s line is the fourth one in this Kyrielle Sonnet with an extra stanza. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_fZP_AzfAE SIDEWAYS Whether it’s low or high tide, no matter how bumpy the ride, I’ll try to match you stride for stride hoping to stay right by your […]

POEM: Summer’s Allure

This was composed for the CPC Simple Sunday Picture challenge.  The featured art is by the Canadian artist nuriko-kun and is titled “The Forest Stray.”