The assignment today is to write about a family photograph. As it is also Easter, I thought I’d share an Easter photo from my childhood. My parents took one of us every year — from when there were three kids, to the time my older brother left home. About. Okay…so I went searching for Easter photos […]
Visit poets.org to see some possibilities for Poem in your Pocket day. I have heard that Elizabeth Austen, our new Washington State poet laureate will be at the Mount Lake Terrace library at 2:00 this afternoon. (Go to “Events” to find the listing.) One of the suggestions is to text a poem to all your contacts. This […]
I learned some things from this prompt, from POETRYisEVERYTHING — so I thought I’d share it on my blog. (I didn’t know that acrostics occur in Proverbs, Psalms, and Lamentations.) You’ll find my acrostic at the end. PROMPT 18 – Acrostic Poem Relatively simple acrostics may merely spell out the letters of the alphabet in order; […]
The prompt today is to write a poem inspired by hands. (For more details, go to POETRYisEVERYTHING.) I am reading a novel in which the characters recognize one another not by their faces, not by their expressive eyes, their noses, their lips, not even by height or the color of their hair or the sound of their […]