A hint of singing together, and a strong reference to the lyric version of "The Last of the Wilds" by Nightwish. I'm in the early days of attempting to learn Finnish so this is where my headspace is at. Enjoy! Poem prompt: "Today’s daily resource is the Art Institute of Chicago, where just searching the collection…
An antisocial anti-establishment poem in the guise of an angry bird. Just because. CW: contains swearing. Poem prompt: "Our resource for the day is the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The museum’s online image collection is practically endless, and to call it varied would be an understatement. There’s over 2,000 images just of baseball cards! To say nothing of candelabra…
Veering slightly off-prompt again today, to write my true emotions, thanking my mother for her example rather than anything specific she taught me to do. Our old house just went up for sale again, and I'm having feelings. Poem prompt: "Today’s daily resource is the Uffizi Gallery, in Florence, Italy. If you are at all interested…
Today's prompt is so fun and unique! I'll be revisiting it in the future. I have so many ideas that could fit into this conceit. Many thanks to Sawako Nakayasu for coming up with such a concept in the first place with her original prose poem! Poem prompt: "Our daily resource is the Shanghai Museum, where…
Well, this was fun! I haven't rhymed this much in a very long time. Let's just say, I'm very grateful to my Rhyming Dictionary and Thesaurus of the Senses for bolstering my recall of words. I used an older idea I hadn't worked on yet, involving a metaphor for two people in my life. Poem…
On to actually-today's prompt! I really like this one, and riding high off the concert I went to last night I am freshly inspired by song lyrics. There's one good thing that came of my friends all ditching me a few years ago. It gave me some new trauma to delve into with my art.…
Yes, yes, this is a day late, but I didn't care to combine days a third time so there will be two posts today. I didn't get around to writing yesterday and I'm honestly impressed by the people who have, or at least find, the time to write, and write well, every single day. I've…
A rough draft today—this may undergo some major editing in the future. Line lengths need trimming and repositioning, and I want to add more detailed descriptions. Today's prompt became the start of a new myth. I've long considered the life-and-death yin-yang nature of Iduna and Hel(a). There are no attestations that these two ever met.…
I decided not to do the prompt today. I just couldn't get into that headspace. I had writer's block most of the day until I found this tidbit in my notes: "Crab apples have long been associated with love and marriage. It was said that if you throw the pips into the fire while saying…
Okay, so the prompt said six lines, and I had every intention to keep it that short, especially with my work overload today...but I kept enhancing each line with parallelism and repetition until they were too long and unwieldy to keep. I had to break it up both for my sanity and yours. See if…
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