Yep, I’m still around!
Current mood: cheerful
Category: Life

I just wanted to let everyone that, YES, I'm still alive and well... LOL... I've been very busy this summer and haven't had much of a chance to get online to do more than check email and pay bills (yuck!).  But fall/winter is coming, and I'm sure I'll be writing and posting once again.

Thanks to all of you who've send emails saying "Where are you!?!", I promise, I'll be back writing all sorts of things soon.  I wanted to send out some love to my readers, and I hope you're having as great a summer as I am!

~D

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Race Day
Current mood: tired
Category: Writing and Poetry

The roar in my ears has a circular pattern

Cows fly and dogs run
on wings and feet made of buns

Hands plunge into the icy cold
to quench the thirst
of those young and old

Lightening flashes in the distance
stabbing a sky the color of dirty dishes

And the roar in my ears has a circular pattern

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So (a poem) **Warning ~ Under construction**
Current mood: loved
Category: Writing and Poetry

So and so and so again
and so I say no more
Sew and sew and sew again
my tattered heart upon the floor

Go and go and go again
and so I go no more
Sew and sew and sew in vain
those wounds received in war

Run and run and run again
and so I run no more
No longer must I sew again
You've healed my heart for sure.

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Still aglow (a poem)
Current mood: amorous
Category: Writing and Poetry

hands
touch
eyes
meet
lips
alight
warm
skin
dewy
bright

Still aglow

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Sleepy (a poem)
Current mood: sleepy
Category: Writing and Poetry

Hand
resting
on cheek bone
lids held open
by toothpicks....tilting...THUNK!.... I'm awake now!

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Challenge Response (a poem)
Current mood: sleepy
Category: Writing and Poetry

Grey
clouds hang
sleepy, eyes
heavily search
yearning for the sun to come out again

Check out more responses to today's challenge!

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Circles (a poem)
Current mood: melancholy
Category: Writing and Poetry

Circle of life
Circle of friends
Circle of family
Pray it never ends

Circle of doubt
Circle of life
Circle of hope
Pray against strife
 
Circle of birth
Circle of death
Circle of life
Pray for those left

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Everything merges with the night (a poem)
Current mood: quiet
Category: Writing and Poetry

Everything merges with the night

Silver light takes over the day
Colors fade into the grey

Crickets sing in softening light
Flowers retreat and wind up tight
Birds head home in feathered flight

Gentle breezes tease the trees
Mother earth beds down to take her ease

Everything merges with the night

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Prompt Challenge (a poem)
Current mood: sleepy
Category: Writing and Poetry

Here’s today’s challenge from NavWorks Press:  Go to a book shelf, magazine rack, CD drawer, or other place you find written/recorded material. Scan the titles and/or contents of the articles, chapters, etc. Look for interesting phrases or key words that "prompt" a poem in you-- and write it.

Please cite your source before or after your poem. For instance, you could say, "this came from H.P. Lovecraft’s book: The Seas of Infinity." And then post the poem you wrote.

Remember you are not limited to books, you can find software titles, CD titles, DVD titles, or any media content. 

In other words, find phrases, titles, or statements in another form of communication, art, or medium and use it as a title or line in your poem. 

Bonus Challenge: Do the same as in the challenge above, only find a way to reference the author or work in your poem as an allusion or by simply naming them.

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Synergistic Cinquains ~ Challenge Response (poems)
Current mood: silly
Category: Writing and Poetry

So NavWorks posted a Synergistic Cinquains Challenge...  Click here ---> NavWorks Press Poetry Forum to check out what they are, and other posts... they’re short and sweet! Here’s what I wrote...

Rip Van
Winkle wishes
for a long winter’s nap.
Late night, waiting for the caffeine
attack!

Then I wrote this one about my friend Angel, and her banter with DE (the host of the forum)....

Angel
of Light banter
twists words of the master
provides us with a repartee
Touché!

There is a variation of Cinquain called a Tetractys, which inspired this one (which uses the said style)...

I
wonder
why we are
writing poems
styled after large flying dinosaurs!?


Poetry is fun!!!  So go to the forum and enjoy...

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