Category: Writing
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Why Do You Write Poetry….
Why Do You Write Poems When Your Mind is Battered By The World? Why do you write poems when your mind is battered by the world? It is an escape into my thoughts pushing the cacophony of life away for a mere hour or so allowing me to hear my inner whisper giving it space…
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Blackout Poem
humans managed to upset this fantasy. alters the world in our passage. question we ask how like weeping bare wind they carved out a place for themselves to live- destructive landscape. #VerseLove Day 13- Blackout Poetry My Blackout Poem comes from the pg. 131 in the book, On Trails by Robert Moor. It was highly…
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Something You Should Know…
Something you should know, is that as a child I would hide under coffee tables at the ringing of the doorbell to terrified to greet who had arrived I would cower under there minute after minute, even if it was just my grandparents weekly Saturday stop. Tears would be streaking down my cheeks as I…
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Waiting for a Flicker
No spark, no flame, just waiting for something to ignite and catch Oh a flicker growing, spreading, erupting to an inferno Writer’s block unfrozen, scrawling to capture creative thoughts. #VerseLove Day 6- Sijo: Korean Poem with a Twist This was a challenge for me today. The true form of the poem baffled me with its…
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To Rest or Not?
My first day of Spring Break should have excitement quivering inside me. However, I feel drained, tired and just plain beat. I have no big plans for this week. The only initial thoughts were to clean, organize, exercise daily and meet up with friends a few times. Honestly, right now that seems like too much.…
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Oh What a Month….
Thank you to the Slice of Life community. This was my first year slicing and it was so meaningful. Thank you to the creators for this space that gathers teachers, writers and lovers of words. Thank you to all the slicers who put your thoughts out into the world so honestly. I was inspired by…
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Can Email Be Poetry???
While reading through Slices over the weekend, I noticed that Book Spine Poetry had been tried in a few posts. I was at a loss for what to write about today so I was scrolling through my emails. Then ding! Why not make a poem out of the headings in my email. I decided to…
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Spring Haiku Hunt
I just finished reading Three Simple Lines: A Writer’s Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku by Natalie Goldberg. Part of my learning was that haiku does not need to be written in the 5-7-5 syllable pattern that I had always learned but it can just be 3 short lines. The tricky part is…
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Student Gift + Word Play = Math Poems
I was gifted this magnetic poetry kit by one of my students. He knows that I enjoy math and writing poetry. I was intrigued by the words that would be inside and how they would fit into poems. The little box sat on my shelf for a few months. Then today while I was cleaning,…
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Which movie is it?
I gave micro-writing a try with 6 word film plots. Can you figure out these movies? A twister, broomstick quest is success! Strong woman, arrogant man-perspectives change… Frigid water, unseen obstacle, unsinkable-wrong! Singing family defeats the Nazi plot Love between boy and visiting alien. Who will live? The games begin. Would love to see your…
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