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Na/GloPoWriMo #4: Closed For Renovation
Closed For Renovationby Michael DoyleWith a startled turnLife became the strangeWith a subtle twist of fateSuddenly, plans became small changeLearning how to simply liveOur best moments in isolationAll across our land we wished to giveAs if it was all closed … Continue reading
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Tagged Across Our Land, American Lands, American Nation, Ask, Behind Closed Door, Belief, Best Moments, Better World, Children, Closed, Closed for Renovation, Corona, Count, Courage, Dedicatino, Dreaming, Each New Day, Easter Day, Experience, Fate, Find A Way Through, Gifted, Given Up, God's Love, Grief, Grip, Isolation, Kept In the Distance, Left Alive, Lessons Learned, Life, Lifted, Lived Safest, Lives, Living Without Masks, Lost Its Footing, Loved Friends, Meaning, Minimal Resistance, More, Na/GloPoWriMo, Never See This Again, Nightmares, No Longer Closed, One Another, Our Freedoms, Packing Up, Photograph, Plans, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Recall, Renovation, Road Trip, Safer, Semi-Legendary Plans, Simply Live, Six Foot, Small Change, Spring, Sprung, Startled Turn, Strange, Subtle Twist, Surreal, Tossed Aside, Turned Inward, Turning Toward, Un-Rung, Viral Horror, Write About
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On An Ancient Pathway
Today is the last day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020! 30 days of poetry. Congratulations to my traveling companions through this journey who stuck with all of this. They tell me it’s really something to write 30 days of poems. I … Continue reading
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Tagged 2.5 Million Years, 2020, Adhere, Always, Ancient, Autumn, Birds, Birth, Bundle, Catch, Cheeks, Children, Clockwork, Daughters, Day, End, Eyes, Fall, Family, Father, Feed, Food, Forehead, Formation, Friends, Glide, Good, Gray, Hope, Human, Hunter, Jasper Pulaski, Joy, Laughter, Look Away, Magical, Memories, Mississippi Flyway, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Nature, Pathway, Photograph, Pilgrimage, Play, Plumage, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Pride, Profound, Recall, Red, Returns, Ribeye, Ride, Run, Sacred Ground, Sandhill Cranes, Savage, Silent, Sky, Soar, Spring, Tears, Thermal, Thrill, Tradition, Unison Calling, Whistle Stop, White, Whooping Crane
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Stay On the Path
Due to time constraints and a day much better spent with my two princesses, I will be going off prompt from Day 25 of Na/GloPoWriMo gazillion requirements for a form of poetry that I would never want to write in … Continue reading
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Tagged Anew, Animals, Around, Awake, Breath, Brighter, Bud, Citizens, Clearing, Come, Come and Go, Constraint, Daddy, Days, Deer, Earth Day, Endear, Every Day, Explore, Fall, Father, Flowers, Flutter, Forest Floor, Green, Ground, Harm, Her, Hours, Ignore, Joy, Lessons, Life, Lighter, Living Creatures, Load, Lock, Mark, Memories, Na/GloPoWriMo, Near, New, Newborn, Notice, Off Prompt, Old, Pass, Path, Photograph, Plot, Poem, Poetry, Poppa, Protective Canopy, Rays, Recall, Rules, School, Scurry, Seasons, Shape, Spring, Stay, Taught, Valleys, Value, Wake, Warm Days, World, Worry
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Wild Romania
It’s the second day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020! The prompt today is: “to write a poem about a specific place — a particular house or store or school or office. Try to incorporate concrete details, like street names, distances (“three … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancient Forest, Autumn, Awake, Backbone, Beams, Beasts, Beauty, Bounty, Breath, Brown Bear, Carpathian Mountains, City, Conifer, Crisp, Cruel, Day, Deep Sleep, Drift, Eat, Embrace, Europe, Explore, Flow, Forage, Forest, Freeze, Frozen, Giants, Ice, Light, Mistress, Mountain, Myth, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020, Nature, Nibble, Photograph, Place, Play, Poem, Poetry, Reason, Rest, Rivers, Romania, Season, Shake, Skies, Slip, Snow, Spring, Story, Straggler, Struggle, Summer, Sunlight, Sunrise, Time, Wild, Wild Boar, Wilderness, Winding, Winter, Wolves, Wonder
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Frozen Infinity
The challenge brought last night was to write a poem about snow, ice, winter, spring and all the things these things bring. Who knew that albatrosses also mate for life? I didn’t know…. and…Here’s my attempt: Frozen Infinity by … Continue reading
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Tagged Albatross, Alive, Antarctica, Beauty, Blunder, Boom, Children, Cod, Consequence, Consign, Cost, Cub, Cycle, Design, Duty, Early Bird, Earth, Emperor, Feeling, Flood, Frozen, God Willing, Harsh, Hunter, Ice, Icicle, Infinity, Lean Times, Life, Loom, Manna, Melt, Meltwater, Migration, Mother Nature, Mother's Love, Narhal, New Life, Niche, North, Ocean, Peace, Pebble, Penguin, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Polar Bear, Polar Wind, Prey, Remind, Sense, Snow, Spring, Stone, Strife, Sun, Survive, Tapestry, Thaw, Tundra, Tusk, Tuxedo, Unfair, Unicorn, Waterfall, Winter, Wonder
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Thought For the Day: April Showers Do Bring May Flowers
“Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.” – Thomas Tusser
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Tagged April, Flowers, May, Showers, Spring, Sweet, Thomas Tusser, Thought For the Day
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Hope In Love Becomes A Battlefield
Na/GloPoWriMo Day 22 challenges us to write a poem engaging another art form. For me, it took but a moment to realize I would take on Robert Indiana’s LOVE sculpture. Many reasons behind this I suppose, but, the largest of … Continue reading
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Tagged Anonymity, Art, Aspiration, Attic, Battlefield, Category, Daddy, Danger, Design, Didone, Divorce, Dream, Dumpster Dive, Encourage, Family Man, Feeling, Happy, Hearts, Homeless, Hope, Little Girls, Live, Love, Memory, Na/GloPoWriMo, Paint by Number, Pattern, Photograph, Plead, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Princess, Reason, Robert Indiana, Scattegory, Sculpture, Season, Sing, Soul, Spring, Strong, Success
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Thought For the Day: An Optimist Is the Personification of Spring
“An optimist is the human personification of spring.” – Susan J. Bissonette
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Tagged Human, Optimist, Personification, Spring, Susan J Bissonette, Thought For the Day
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A Haiku Passage On Groundhog’s Day
Happy Groundhog Day! Combine Milkwood writing group’s poem of the day into a celebration for today. Good news! Spring is predicted to arrive early! Milkwood Poem of the Day POD 1 – Haiku 5-75 A Haiku Passage On Groundhog’s Day … Continue reading
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Tagged Distance, Fireworks, Groundhog Day, Happy, Lightning, Milkwood, Passing, Photograph, Plain, Poem, Poem of the Day #1, Poetry, Shadow, Sky, Spring, Truth, World
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