Poem prompt: "Our featured resource for the day is the online gallery of the Peabody-Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. Although it may be most famous for its witch trials, Salem was a seafaring town whose sailors and shipowners brought back all manner of items from their travels – which became the initial source of the museum’s collection.…
In a complete turnaround from yesterday, I am in love with today's prompt! A ghazal was the ideal form to repeat Idunn's name throughout, like a chant or a prayer. I can't believe I didn't think of it before. The length of 5-15 couplets meant I could easily make it 9, a Norse holy number.…
I am very uninspired today, between the rain and not feeling well and the prompt of a "self-portrait" poem. I just really, emphatically, did not care today. I barely followed the prompt. But I tried. And hey, it rhymes! The meter is very Sara Teasdale-influenced, if you aren't familiar or couldn't tell. She's a favorite.…
Today's prompt directed participants to pick a number, then write a poem with the words on that row. I cheated, and instead of picking a number first, I perused the list and chose the one(s) I wanted to do. I had to, in order to work around the prompt so I could make it related…
Poem prompt: "Our featured resource for the day is the online collection of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. There’s much to explore here, but just to get you started, why not peruse their images of beautifully designed and varied musical instruments, ranging from a guitar shaped like the moon to a rattle in the form of a bird that…
Poem prompt: "Today’s daily resource is the online exhibitions page of the International Folk Art Museum. I have a particular predilection for folk art, in which the strange and boisterous so often finds itself going hand-in-hand with practical objects of daily use. But the museum also showcases work of other sorts, like 100 Aspects of the Moon,…
Poem prompt: "Today’s daily resource is the online art collection of South Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. My own art history education is woefully catch-as-catch can, and the little I know of modern art is very much focused on American and European artists. So it was a treat to browse through a collection…
Playing catch-up today. I almost forgot what month it was! So often with the daily grind, I get into a routine rut. Such is adult life. Recent distractions I've found to help me survive reality: binging House MD on Hulu, learning how to play Magic: The Gathering (to appease my husband, so we can spend…
Activity here has died down a bit on my part due to all of my attention being diverted to BlueSky, the new Twitter/X alternative. It really is as nice as they say (at least for now) and I'm able to market my work with a wider reach. I've posted a few poems there that I…
Daily writing promptWhat is one question you hate to be asked? Explain.View all responses Do you have kids? When are you having kids? Why don't you want kids? I was a girl with a list long before Tiktok's the girl with the list. I just never had the audacity to post it online or the…
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