(The Cave of Swimmers, Gilf Kebir plateau, Egypt) I’ve decided to take up a sonnet-writing challenge. Haven’t written one in ages, and I actually don’t remember ever having written a worthwhile one. I’ve been mulling over this dream that has surfaced quite often ever since I could vividly remember my dreams: My house has becomeContinue reading “Sonnet for Swimmers”
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To the Locust of the Swarming Variety
This is a combination of two epistolary prompts: Margo Roby’s Tuesday Tryouts suggested that we consider one of several self-portrait images as part of the process of addressing a letter to someone, and We Write Poems’ Prompt #81 is also based on the same idea, writing a letter to an important historical figure. Salvador Dali’s self-portraitContinue reading “To the Locust of the Swarming Variety”
Bread Crumb Poems
Words are bread crumbs through a forest… We Write Poems’ Prompt #80 encouraged us to accumulate a minimum of 12 words and to write little two-line “poemlets” with each one. I chose my words by closing my eyes and randomly putting my finger on different pages of a book. The words were: shoulders, breeze, stopped, grass,Continue reading “Bread Crumb Poems”
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