In Others’ Words


How to make a stained glass panel. 
It’s like falling off a log:
practice makes perfect!

Make a pattern for your pieces. Otherwise,
If you fail to plan, plan to fail.
Hope for the best, but plan for the worst.

Select your glass,
half empty or half full.
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

Remember, the glass is
always greener on the other side.
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

Cut the glass.
measure once, cut twice.
If it ain’t broke, fix it.

Solder the pieces together.
Strike while the iron is hot.
A pane is only as strong as its weakest link.

Clean the glass panel.
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
The squeaky glass gets the streaks.

Hang your panel in a safe place.
People who live in glassed houses
should not throw stones.

Admire your work.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
All’s well that ends well.

It’s National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo)!

Day Twenty-Seven prompt from NaPoWriMo.net: Start by reading Robert Fillman’s poem, “There should always be two.” Now, write your own poem in which all the verses contain the same number of lines (whether couplets, triplets, quatrains, etc.) and in which you give the reader instructions of some kind.

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