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Category Archives: humanity
Dog Walk on a Drizzly Day
The gray sky is low, pushing down on me as my dog and I sidestep puddles in our path. A sense of sadness seeps onto me, settling like heavy mist on a wool coat. Unexplainable loneliness rises up as though … Continue reading
Funeral
Little cherub on mama’s lap, surrounded by strangers, crammed into narrow pews in a room she does not know. No color, no toys, no talking. No joy. She squirms, but just a little. Everyone stands in unison. An organ plays, … Continue reading
Posted in daily prompt, humanity, poetry
Tagged children, funeral, innocence, laughter, mourning, NaPoWriMo
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April Showers Bring…
It’s April, and we all know what that means: NaPoWriMo! It’s National Poetry Writing Month, and the well-versed souls at NaPoWriMo.net are once again supplying us with inspiration, motivation and creative prompts to help us in the challenge of writing … Continue reading
Posted in daily prompt, humanity, poetry, serious stuff
Tagged dailyprompt, evolution, moon, NaPoWriMo 2023, poetry
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Half Life
We likely all know the trope of whether a half-filled glass of water is half full or half empty. In truth, the glass is completely full: half water and half air. Both are vital to our survival. Like the cycles … Continue reading
Posted in humanity, poetry, prose, spirituality
Tagged dVerse Poetics, haibun, half moon, life cycle
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Plus One
NaPoWriMo day one prompt: “The prompt is based on Robert Hass’s remarkable prose poem, “A Story About the Body.” The idea is to write your own prose poem that, whatever title you choose to give it, is a story about … Continue reading
Forevermore (or less)
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. … Continue reading
literal
metaphors be damned alone in the faceless crowd, we weep behind our masks
The Many Faces of Bold
Bloganuary prompt: What does it mean to live boldly?
Posted in daily prompt, humanity, photo essay
Tagged Bette Midler, Bloganuary, bold, Nellie Bly, Rosa Parks, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Assumptions
Bloganuary prompt: What do people incorrectly assume about you? Others may assume that I am unassuming, but my assumption that they assume so would, indeed, make their assumption incorrect, would it not? It is more likely that I assume things … Continue reading
Inspiration
Bloganuary prompt: Who is someone that inspires you, and why? You inspire me. Sometimes to be more like you, Sometimes to be not like you at all. Sometimes to be more like who I know myself to truly be, … Continue reading