Love lasts forever.
Come to find out, forever
isn’t all that long.
Early bird post for April’s National / Global Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo).
The prompt: Write a poem based on, or responding to, a line of Emily Dickenson’s poetry. The line I chose was “Forever might be short.”
I hope to participate in the NaPoWriMo daily prompts for April again this year, but we’ll see how that goes. I’m one for one so far, and the month hasn’t even yet begun!
I recently visited the Vancouver, WA public library and came across the Mary Granger Sculpture Garden, a collection of four sculptures on the library property, all created by regional artists.
I’ll share them here as part of Marsha’s Photographing Public Art Challenge (PPAC).
I thought I’d come across a fifth piece of public art, but upon further investigation, it turned out to be a bike rack. Oh, well. Perhaps art is in the eye of the beholder.
For Cee’s Black and White photo Challenge (CBWC): just one of anything.
I thought I heard a hawk of some sort the other day, so I stepped out on the deck to look for it. This squirrel was balled up on a nearby branch, maybe trying to make himself invisible to the bird of prey.
The bird that was making all the ruckus finally flew to the same tree, but it wasn’t a hawk at all. I’m thinking it was one of those tricky fellows that can mimic other bird calls. Good enough to fool both the squirrel and me!
metaphors be damned
alone in the faceless crowd, we
weep behind our masks
I’m hoping to end up with one of these for each of my grandkids. Here are the previous two:
For Marsha’s Photographing Public Art Challenge.
I wrote a post last August about the Evergreen Trail at Columbia Springs Environmental Education Center in Vancouver, WA. But I didn’t include photos of the wood carvings that can be found along the trail. These have been carved into still-standing dead trees.
I don’t think I even noticed all of them the last time I was there, but Chules and I went on the trail again this past week, and there they were, just staring at us.
Kind of a fun discovery.
My favorite white subject for Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: the color white.
Bloganuary prompt: What does it mean to live boldly?
What Rhymes with Stanza? 